Hermana Dimond Takes Florida: October 2017

Monday, October 30, 2017

There is a cold front kids, watch out!

LOVES!

What a wonderful week!!! How are you?? (: I sure love Mondays and getting to hear the updates. You are all just wonderful.

Man I am currently writing this letter bundled in my companions sweater. emphasis on the bundled. So when I got the call to Florida I assumed that I would just be HOT all the time so I packed nothing warm, but man, let me tell ya, we have had a good ol "COLD FRONT" move in this week, a whoppin 60 and 70 degrees, and dang shoot I AM SERIOUSLY DYING. I am freezing. Hahaha, I am blaming it on the humidity that is making it colder, but seriously I have realized that I am going to die when I come home. I have realized that I guess I am just a summer gal and that this really is the perfect mission for me. It becomes more apparent each and every day, with each and every person that I talk to. God is good.

Man this week was just too good to me. So many wonderful miracles and things that made me smile. Updates:

-First off, my momma just knows me too well and sent me a good ol' package with a bag of some leaves from the canyon at home. T hat alone just made my week. Although I don't miss the cold too much, I miss the beautiful canyon and the leaves. Everyone go take a drive and enjoy that for me please (: Thanks.

-We had our ward Halloween party. It was bumpin (: you know you are a missionary when you are just way too stoked for your ward chili cook off and trunk or treat.

-This nuts cute old woman named Sally came to church this week with her little walker. She said we are the best dressed congregation that she has ever seen. She even wore her "panty hose". Hahaha, I DIED! So there ya have it kids. The Mormons are the best dressed.

-We went to go visit a woman named Donna that we had met on the street a few days prior. When we got to her home, nobody answered, so we left a note, and felt we should stay in the area. We didn't go far, but after a few houses we decided we guess we should leave. We got into the car and drove past Donna's house one more time and this time she was standing outside. I made Sister Staffieri pull over and we jumped out and talked to her. She said she felt so bad but that she couldn't talk right then as she was racing to go pick up her grandchildren, but she got to her car and there was no gas. (dun dun dun dun) We couldn't drive her in our car, but she gave us money and a gas tank thing and we went and filled her up some gas. She was so appreciative and now we are going back to teach her. God's timing is perfect. And a little service doesn't hurt ya either.

-While Sister Staffieri and I were knocking this week we knocked a cute Haitian Creole mans home and he did not speak one lick of English. But when he saw us he said, "Mormons." I was like "YES YES" hahah just trying to communicate. After trying and then failing, I knew this man had either heard of the Church or wanted to or maybe was a member, and we just couldn't leave his house without finding out. So I brought in back up. I whipped out our shnazzyyy slide phone and called up the Creole Elders and had them talk to him. Turns out he is a less active member, wanting to come back. The Elders are now working with him to help him come back. SO AWESOME. Thank you gift of tongues and cellular devices that's all I'm saying!

-ROBERT GOT BAPTIZED!!! Even during the tropical storm! (: MIRACLES. (The whole night there were tornado warnings... which caused a few members not come to the baptism) but it was such a special night. One I will not forget and I hope that he never does either. I just love that kid. He will be the best missionary.

-Well one of the best Sundays of my mission happened yesterday. So this week we got a referral from one of my members up in the West Palm Beach ward but we didn't really get any information on what he wanted. Like if he wanted a Bible or a Book of Mormon or to meet with us. So we called this guy, John Lee, and talked to him over the phone and he was just the most awesome guy. A single dad who is trying to work two jobs right now and just be able to buy a house to make a more suitable life for his kids. He said he really wanted to learn more about our church, but he just wanted to get his life a little more in order to be able to do so. We told him we totally understood, but we invited him to church and hoped he would come. The next morning goes by and we go to church, AND JOHN CAME, and he loved it! Every talk was seriously so perfect for him and his situation. Even the songs. They were the songs his mom used to sing him. He is the coolest dad and one of our members invited him over for dinner this week, so we will see him there. (: It was just another testimony to me that God knows every single one of his children so perfectly, and cares enough to even do the little things. It makes me want to do not just the big things, but the little things more.

I love being a missionary. I am just smiling with happiness and feel so blessed for the miracles that I get to be apart of everyday.

I love you all so much have the best week!!!

xxoxoxo

Your freezing goon Hermana Dimond

Beautiful food!

Oh the beautiful food of Florida!

And then the real feelings - lol - thats us, take a good look kids!

Sister Osbourne. Wow, it's been a hot min!

And Zone Conference (: I love my friendssss

Monday, October 23, 2017

Still Hot! How is Utah?

Hello Loves,

WHAT IS UPP???? It's been a while eh?

This week's low down:

Our cute investigators Taylor, Robert, and Scott all say Hi. (: Robert is getting baptized this weekend! We can hardly wait!

I got to use a little of the Creole this week that I have picked up. #fluent #not.

I will have to say that my favorite part of the week though was probably when we knocked on just this "sweet man" from Finland’s door. Definitely didn't speak much English but he sure did know "GET OFF MY LAWN. GET OFF MY LAWN." With his little finger pointed at us (: (: But don't fret, he wasn't being rude, he was actually just pointing to the guy across the street who was sitting outside I'm sure (: and saying "He's the one you need to talk to He's the one you need to talk too." So we went across the street and met a guy who was actually a "less active: and now we are working with his family. God works in funny ways man. Sister Staffieri and I have felt a very strong impression though that we need to work with part member families and less actives, so we are striving to act on that prompting.

I really wish I had more to report on this week! Sister Staffieri and I seriously haven't had a minute to breathe. The work is moving right along here in our crazy area of Boynton Beach. Not too much crazy happened so I am just going to save you all and do a picture update this week (: Your welcome.

Love you all loads! Thanks for your emails and support and just making me the luckiest gal in the world. I love you millions.

Have a blessed week!

xoxox

Sista Dimon

(I have lost my Spanish I swear, but I'm starting to pick up ghetto again so ya know. You win some and you lose some) lol

The Key Lime House! We treated ourselves last week (: Oh man we are going back, ok?

This is Florida's oldest water front restaurant. 1889. So yum!

Our waitress actually ended up being someone that we prayed with and talked to a few weeks ago! She totally recognized us! Small world! (:

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

It's Too Hot

When you blink and it’s Monday again? I think that is the theme of this transfer. Time has never gone so fast in my life and I am just trippin’. I swear I wake up and I feel like I just went to bed and then we have a wonderful day and then the next thing I know I am already getting ready for bed again. I love being busy and boy have we been. We have been running around with our heads cut off here and I don’t think that I have ever been more tired in my life, but it is just the most rewarding feeling putting your head on the pillow every night and just being EXHAUSTED and knowing that you did the Lord’s work. I only wish that I could do it better. But that’s why we are here right? To learn and to TRY. And we are gonna fail and fall, but that is why we need our Savior. I am so grateful for his patience with me. Boy does he need it, haha!

Well this week. Just good things man. Lots of laughs that’s all I can say:

- Knocking doors is just always my favorite time, not because it’s just the most enjoyable thing, but because we just always have the most nuts experiences. This week we happened to knock into a Muslim family from Morocco and don’t even fret, I WAS corrected on the proper way to say Muslim, but I also decided that I would like to move to Morocco. That place just looks unreal. And although the cute family that we talked to really wanted nothing to do with our message, they did end up loving us and wouldn't let us leave without taking these Moroccan dresses. So there ya have it kids. My closet is now graced with a Moroccan dress. Blessings.

-We also happened to be lucky enough to knock into a anti-Mormon who so lovingly showed us the "Book of Mormon" Broadway musical thing from YouTube. Gotta just love civil kind people (: I definitely bit my tongue for a good minute and then finally just couldn't handle it anymore and tapped the little pause button on his phone and told him I think we were good.

-We went to visit a less active and her reason for not coming to church is that "it is too hot". Ya Sister Staffieri and I just sat there for a few seconds in silent as we both were trying to wrap our heads around that statement? Hun, you live in the wrong state then I hate to break it to ya cuz yes, it is hot. and it is always hot.

-Aside from just funny people we did have some very powerful experiences. Right now we are teaching Robert, an 18 year old who is living with one of our members. He has been coming to church for much of his life, on and off, but he is now 18 and really wants to take the step and be baptized. He is SO COOL. Oh my word, he has been going to seminary at 5 am everyday this year and his whole class didn't even know that he wasn't a member. Dedication. I can tell you that I definitely did not go at 5 am to seminary. He is awesome! When your investigator uses the word "steadfast" in answer to a question that you asked him, you just want to jump for joy. He is just wonderful and we are just so happy for him. Every time that I am with him I just see him as a future missionary. That is not in his plans right now but I hope that we can start taking him out with us and inviting him to pray about it. He would be incredible. This last week we were able to kneel down with him and pray about his baptism date, a date that he felt the Lord would help him be ready by. He came up with two dates and when we came back a few days later, he had continued praying and felt that October 28th was the day for him. We are so excited!! (:

-This week we also went to one of our investigators, and while we were walking to her house, there was a man sitting about 20 feet away from us on the curb smoking and covered in tats. I immediately thought, there is no way this man is going to listen to anything that I have to say. But right then is when I felt the Spirit so strongly pretty much YELL to me (which it never does) and say, "OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND TALK TO THIS MAN". I had no clue what to say but I opened my mouth and the Spirit just took over. After like 20 minutes we found out that he used to meet with the elders and then his life just got crazy. As well that his ex wife and his son were actually living in Utah right now and were just recently baptized!! I just died. We taught him right there. I plopped down next to him on the curb and I am so glad I did. It is times like that when I am so grateful for the Spirit and only pray that I can heed its promptings more. I cannot even imagine if I wouldn't have opened my mouth.

I am just so happy. Man. Just so happy! I know I am exactly where I need to be. (:

I hope you all just have the best week. I love you all lots!! Please everyone go up the canyon for me. All these pictures of fall are killing me. You’re all the best!

xxoxox

Hermana Dimond