Sister Callista Chaffin: Week 44: Joy of Heart Attacking💙

What a great week we have had! The gospel is so sweet and so pure. I love the love that we are able to give and the love that comes from the gospel!

Tuesday: We had an awesome district council about being diligent! It all starts with our desire and our willingness to do something, and it will be done!

We had a lesson with our recent convert, Aric. What an amazing lesson we had! Nothing in the world can replace his knowledge! He is so smart, my goodness! Never in my life, except for Brother Bertoldo, have I tried teaching someone so smart, who recently had just receive the gospel themselves. I fail every time. They end up teaching me further! The teacher is usually a learner too!! So many great lessons! We also had a lesson with sister Gause. she is so close to baptism and to continuing her journey closer to her Heavenly Father!

Wednesday: we saw sister Theoret in our leasing office and she was talking about a few things and the spirit told me to share Doctrine and Covenants 121 with her and she started to talk apart as I read it to her. She asked "How did you know sister? How did you know?" Some of the coolest things happen with her! So many different connections that God shows his hand in every single part of her life!

She teaches me so much of patient perseverance and staying happy through trials!

We then had a lesson with sister Alessi! We had texted her inquiring if today at 2pm would work and we got no reply, so we went any way. We got there and she was sitting on the porch! What perfect timing! She said that she was meaning to text us back, but she had just woken up from a nap! So we walked inside and talked for a little bit and read scriptures about the resurrection! What a beautiful spirit that was there! I love that woman so much! I look up to her very much, she has no idea! One of the toughest and positive woman I know!

We had dinner with a sister in our ward that is awesome and made gluten-free fried chicken! So awesome! And soo good! I need all her recipes Haha!

We went and visited sister Lopez and got there at the perfect time, right when they were getting home. We helped her download the Book of Mormon in Spanish, and Oh my goodness! It was so cool! She was so enlightened and listened to the whole first chapter of us just sitting there waiting till she was finishing and listening as well! Wow, it was literally the best day! We were able to see a lot the amazing women that we love so much!!

Another person we were able to see was sister Markanich! We were able to talk a little bit about the scriptures and doctrine. It's a long time coming with her, she is married to a member so she has gone through a lot of different missionaries. But she is so loving and so giving to her children and grandchildren!

Thursday: Zone Conference was a great time to get some more confidence and learn from other missionaries in this to find more and better and unique ways! Sister Minaker and I did a cool duet of "Where Can I Turn For Peace?" I was so grateful that it all worked out so well, what a blessing! We had a lesson that night with Farshid and a woman from the ward and talked about sincere prayer! A prayer that is not sincere is less likely to be answered! If you want to know an answer and you are searching, you are more likely to get an answer because God sees your diligence and faith!

Friday: we made a ton of Hearts for Sister Murray, sister Alessi, sister Markanich (for her birthday), and sister Roberts! We did a "heart attack" to the majority of them this weekend! Heart attacking is the coolest thing you are able to do as a missionary. It is so unique and can be personalized to them with cute scriptures and motivational quotes! It helps them know that someone truly cares for them and all that they do, and that God is truly aware of them!

Saturday: we were able to see sister Markanich again and heart attacked her door with a happy birthday sign!! :) She said that no one has ever done anything like that for her!! And she wasn't able to do much for her birthday because of circumstances!

Sunday: We had sister Gause and sister Murray and her kids come to church!

We had a dinner with this fine family and their new niece wouldn't stop laughing at her grandma, it was the cutest thing ever, we were all cracking up for a solid 6 minutes! Hahaha! They gave us a referral for one of their friends and we went over and checked on someone across the street and he had met with missionaries in the past and he has read half of the Book of Mormon as he is working out. He makes his own race cars! Soo cool! He's like #1 in the world or at least in this certain competition in Georgia that is pretty serious! He's willing to have us over more and talk more! He wouldn't give us his number to set up a time but that's okay! We then met this guy and he was really interested in learning that we have a living modern prophet!