Happy Easter

Well folks the pressure is on, because rumor has it there are a few of you who still read these things. 

bless you. 

If I was good with words this e-mail would keep you at the edge of your seat and on your toes at the same time while reading because literally that's how I was alllll week long. 

For good reason too...

Sister Kelly had to go to the dentist...and that was really painful for her. Sister Frazier's eye all of a sudden was a crazy mess and couldn't see for a few days. Basically companionship study on Wednesday was me staring at one companion with an ice pack on her mouth and another companion holding her weeping eye. We were waiting for my hearing to go out all week. HA. 

I'm real thankful for companions who work through the pain though....I was literally Sister Frazier's seeing eye missionary for a few days this week. Don't worry everyone's eyes, ears, mouths, and noses are all in tact now. As for the knees....Sister Kelly's have been messed up since before she got here. 

It seems that there was some miscommunication between us and the Elders in the ward. Basically we planned an entire baptism in three hours, which proves to be hard....especially when it's spring break and everyone and their dog is out of town. Long story short after we called about every active member in the ward to participate in the baptism, we eventually found some less active folks to join us. Then we got a call realllllllllllllllll late on Friday night explaining that Shy wouldn't be baptized the following day. Turns out her mom...who didn't have an opinion the whole time we were teaching her...now has an opinion. All is well because I am convinced that this is just giving us an opportunity to teach her family with her. 

Despite the hope that I have that Shy will be baptized reallll soon, I was in need of a miracle.....and I made that very clear to Heavenly Father in my prayers that day. Good news though...missionary work is the Lord's work and so of course we witnessed a miracle. We went to go teach a referral from church headquarters.....and wow. Wow. WOW. We taught him about the restoration and while I was sharing a scripture and working on getting to the baptismal invitation when Enrique stopped me, apologized for interrupting me, and proceeded to ask if he could be baptized into the church. MIRACLES. WOW. When I told him that literally that question was going to be the next words out of my mouth, he reallllyyyyy recognized that the spirit was there. Anyway, we set a date with him for the 21st of may...it has to be a little further out then he wants it because is going to Utah for the next few weeks. But hey, hey, eighteen hour train ride and a Book of Mormon sounds like a good combination to me. 

Easter was incredible. 

The resurrection is incredible. The message of the Risen Lord is the most powerful message and I'm so blessed to have an opportunity to share it. It changes lives. Jesus Christ truly truly is the Savior of the world. I love Him and I know that He loves all of you. 

THANKS FOR STAYING TUNED IN.

LOVE YA'LL. 

Sister Rendon

 

-I would tell you all not to make any snap judgments about Fresno based on this e-mail..because I LOVE this cute little place.....but to be honest any judgments you are about to make are probably going to be pretty accurate.  

hahahahahahaha...........It was a great week. 

Monday: We passed off our cute little investigator to the Elders in another ward. Literally it was a miracle for them! They met Charlene on Monday and she was baptized on Saturday!!!!!!

Tuesday: We worked like maniacs at a service project and smashed this members cement pad...apparently Sister Frazier worked too hard and she got supppper sick. Also.....this is a good story. 

WE WERE DRIVING.....and this fiesta auto insurance sign flipper on the corner...who is in a crow mascot uniform started doing his little jig and trying to get attention. Well of course I find the nearest picture of Christ and put it up in the window. Well, the crow's arm flapping and sign flipping get a little bit more frantic and all of a sudden he is making a u-turn signal with his little crow arms....so after we face a few rejections we turned back around to go talk to the crow and it actually turned out that he was super interested and genuinely has been looking for a church. THIS IS WHY WE TALK TO EVERYONE THAT BREATHS. Anyway, he doesn't live in our area...but still MIRACLES. 

Wednesday: We had zone conference...literally I love zone conference. It was amazing. There is fire in my bones. Gosh I love it. Well after Sister Frazier barely survived zone conference....because she was sick...we couldn't really proselyte. So instead.....we went and toured the assistants house because this crazy lady had broken in who was high on meth and there was blood all over the apartment....they had to send an actual police dog in there to bite her so she would stop being crazy. Wild. 

Thursday: Sister Frazier was sick again....and what I can only assume was an effort to make her laugh the Elders decided to prank us. I definitely walked up to our door with a member after we had gone on team-ups and there was a dead squirrel in a panda express box......

Friday: We went on exchanges and I was with Sister Murray. My goodness I'm not kidding literally if you have any questions about what happened the first six months of my mission just get Sister Murray and I together and we will literally quote the first six months of my mission. *This is not an exaggeration. 

Saturday: CHARLENE WAS BAPTIZED. IT WAS AMAZING. She was super nervous about going under the water....and she was such a sport...she had to go down three times. SHE WAS SO HAPPY.  She also shared this really cool story...So Charlene's husband actually was hit by a car in November and passed away and when she went to the cemetery to go ask him if she should be baptized it was a pretty over-casty day...but as soon as she asked a ray of sunshine fell on her face. THERE IS SUNSHINE IN MY SOUL. 

Sunday: We had an investigator at both our wards....cute little nine-year old Shy should be getting baptized this Saturday!!!!!!! Also...we definitely taught a lesson with a new investigator....and we were only a little bit distracted by her less active husband who was giving his friend a tattoo of his "hoodsign." All I can say is at the end of the lesson I'm pretty sure that the less-active at-home tattoo artist was a little distracted by the spirit in the room. what what. 

I LOVE YOU ALL. 

I LOVE FRESNO. 

I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY. 

HAVE A NICE WEEK. 

GO TO MORMON.ORG

Love,
Sister Rendon.

April 3, 2017


        Since Sister Rendon didn't send pictures here's a few from CA fresnomission.blogspot.com

                          President's Interviews March,2017

                                  Front to Back, Left to Right: Sister Kelly, Sister Frazier, Sister Rendon,                                               
                                                      Elder Larson, Elder Davis, Elder Smith
                                
                                                   Elder LaMay, Elder Ikimau, Elder Lillywhite

Standing, left to right:  Elder Johnson, Elder Rose, Elder K. Flores, 

Elder Tapia, Elder McGraw, Elder Morales

Sitting, left to right:  Sister Gough, Sister Maxwell, Sister Clark, Sister Rendon, Sister Kelly

FIRST OF ALL....

have you visited mormon.org yet this month....because you NEED TO.

really it's a need. 

I literally spend all day, every day trying to get people to visit that website......so my own kin better be taking a look there. 

It's the coolest website on the entire internet....even cooler than this e-mail your reading right now.....so go. 

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Did you go?

Seriously I don't even want you to finish this e-mail until you've seen the prince of peace video. 

OKAY. 

This week was wild. We went to go by an investigators house Monday night that we haven't seen in awhile and when we pulled up there were two policemen outside. After we said a prayer as a tripanionship and I said about twelve in my heart we decided to go talk to the family. The parents actually weren't home but the uncle was waiting for an ambulance with the policemen....we really aren't sure what was happening still and the kids were super calm....anyway turns out having policeman in your home is not a big deal at all in Fresno......and it's really not a deal at all in the part of Fresno...we were in.....

 Tuesday....... we biked all the day long...and we've got the awkward foot tan lines to prove it. 

We had a great week, with an amazing investigators......

Sister Murray came to the area for awhile and literally the second we get together we just quote our lives. Literally we should be a movie.......I do not know how we made it out alive without being chosen to be "The District 3".....we would've been great. 

THEN CONFERENCE.....

YOU ALL WATCHED CONFERENCE RIGHT? 

if not......

be grateful for repentance....

and lds.org 

because you can still watch it. 

We watched with some investigators and some less actives. 

We are passing off our most progressing investigator to some Elders.....we didn't know what area she lived in for the longest time because we'd been teaching her in a members home.....literally when were waiting to find out where she lived it was like waiting at the most intense beauty pageant of your life to see who the winner was. 

turns out she didn't live in our area but hey....we are all winners because no matter what ward.....it's still the kingdom of God.                       

Love you all. 

Go watch prince of peace again. 

Then tell your friends to watch it. 

Then make sure they watch it again. 

Sister Rendon