Crazy Week!!

So accidentally broke the word of wisdom this week. If you want to know why then please keep reading

This week was crazy. I know I have said that before but I don't think I knew what crazy was before. We met with so many people and its awesome! Just a little crazy

This week we found a bunch of knew investigators and they are all catholic. I didn't know there were so many catholics in Vietnam but its fun to teach people who already know who God is. None of them want to join but they are all super interested in our message which is awesome!
So a couple funny stories with them.

1) we were sitting doing some calls outside our apartment and this lady comes up to us and is all hey "so I hear you do charity work for your church and also have an english club right? Yeah well i am also christian so thats cool." We were a little shocked but turns out one of the old ladies that is always sitting outside our apartment told her all about us. Plus about being friends with all the cute old ladies is they contact for you! sweet. So anyway we set up an appt and go to her house and have a really good comfortable first lesson and give her a family proclamation and she loved it. Then after she brought out some fruit and her husband went and bought some funny jelly with milk (its normal here) but we start eating it and turns out it wasn't milk but coffee! So yeah next lesson word of wisdom haha.

2)So we have been teaching on of the guys who comes to our english class and he has so many good questions! We asked him some of his beliefs and he taught us the basically the whole plan of salvation and then wanted us to teach him about repentance and the book of mormon. So that rocks! But this week he was feeling so bad that we had to share a phone that he went and bought a phone for my companion haha! we were like uhhh... what do we do? haha! so funny

3) So we met this guy who said he is christian and wanted to talk to us about our religion. We were super excited to meet him.. But anyway we meet him and lets just say it was not what we expected. We could hardly get a word in and i got kinda a taste of how Jesus may have felt with all the Pharisees questioning Him and trying to trick Him. He was really nice about it all but we gave him a Book of Mormon and he told us he might come to church. I was so confused afterwords

Anyway thats about all! Our investigators are doing well except a couple of them are struggling  which is so sad and so hard! But its okay we are working hard and the Lord has a plan for them! Which speaking of we sent a text to remind one of our new investigators about church and she sent us in English "I pray to the God everyday and know he loves and blessed me." So cute! I just love when people can feel the truth of this message! It truly makes up for all the hard days!

Also i have been studying the New testament and the Living Christ and oh my goodness its been awesome! I definitely recommend it!

Okay thats about it! Love you all and wish you a great week!

Love Sister Connell




Went ice skating for pday an it was a blast


also i love ice cream and we found a swensons!

tallest building in vietnam

my watch tan is unreal

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