WEEK 3 🐒 I am never getting a dog/cat

Ayo made it another week reppin the lord's name everywhere we go!! #overmyheartalways 🫡🙏 Cool news for the week!! Since our mission president (president Hathaway) just got called as a general authority. We just found out who our new mission president will be!! Elder Matswogatha from Botswana! So excited! Sooo this week was…somethin. If you couldn't tell by the caption, animals are my worst enemy out here y'all. Literally EVERYONE has either a dog or a cat and it just barks and rubs its yummy fur alll over ya. It is so hard to have the spirit at the door because they're usually yellin at the dog to shut up or kicking it back with their foot. Haha loveee Sorry to you animal lovers…. Anyways thats not the point ha oops We had spent a TON of time knocking this week and I kid you not, nobody answered their doors. So Sister Nielsen and I pretty much just get to go on some nice walks everyday with little stops in between! Yippee! BUT good news!! We put someone else on date this week!! Her name is Renee and she grew up baptist. She had been taught in the past by sisters and knows her truth! Her dad keeps bashin on us, putting false things in her head but she keeps meeting with us because as she says, she “feels the lord with her” when we come over. She is a cutie lady, got nice Grey teeth, chopped bangs that kinda look like a 3 year old got a hold of scissors and long long finger nails. But guys she is just so awesome! You can just feel the light growing within her! We had read her the scripture: Moroni 10:4-5 which is an invitation given by moroni to ask God if these things are true and she made THE best comment about half way through us talking. In her own words…. “ while you were reading that, I closed my eyes and prayed to God in my heart. I know it is all true because the wind blew across my face and told me it was.” I LOVE IT! HALLELUJAH anyways after that we asked her if she'd like to work towards getting baptized and she said YES! WOOHOO Have Renee in your prayers everyone. She is so elect.🙏 We had also taught our king butch (the JWs got to him so he had lotsss of questions) and we taught our other friend Danielle about the plan of salvation! Woo woooo fire lesson, I actually love teaching the plan of salvation. We drew out the whole plan of LOVE thing and it's just awesome to see their reactions learning about our life before and after. One of my favorite people (aka navea) told me that the plan of love was one of the first lessons she was taught by the missionaries and it gives me hope that one day these people I am teaching turn out to have as amazing of a testimony as navea does! OH also forgot to tell you guys that I experienced my very first basher this last week! I have never zoned out more in my life… he was yellin at us and I'm sure he was saying all these things about our church but I lowkey was thinking about my ice cream I was gonna eat when I get home. Sister Nielsen and I looked at each other and just laughed. One thing I think is hilarious down here is that eveyone thinks we're not Christian 😂 they literally will read our name tags and be like “we’re Christian we already have our own church” or they'll say “you believe in a different Jesus than we do” Miss girl be so fr. You just gotta laugh because it quite literally says it on our name tags “The Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter Day Saints” and last time I checked I'm pretty sure there's only one Jesus…awko taco moment. Its all good tho! Monday was great for some reason! Mainly because I got to tan and get my dirty soda haha! We do an hour of training and comp study at the park everyday and its honestly one of my favorite parts of the day. We get to lay on the grass in the sun and talk about the one and only savior Jesus Christ . #myredeeminghomie 🫡 Ha yesterday was eventful… we stopped by this guys house and he answered the door, he said he wasn't feeling that great then... dropped to the floor. Like passed out completely. We stood there for a solid minute asking if he was OK andddd the door SLAMMED like BOY OK! Bet ya haven't had someone fake pass out to get you off their doors step HAHAH Lowkey dont know if he was liek dead or anything but we just left after that... Spiritual thought 😇 I had been reading in 2 nephi about the prophesy of the savior and the atonement, Along with this book called “the infinite atonement” (thank you coop, fire book) It had mentioned how Atonement literally means “at-one-ment”, becoming at one with God in the sense that we can physically live in his presence or bringing into agreement of those who have been estranged. Isn't that so cool! I love that so much because not only is the atonement so central to his plan, it is quite literally the way we are even able to enter God's presence again. Our heavenly father has such an amazing plan for each and every one of us, it is so intricately thought out for all of us individually. He wants his children home!! He KNOWS you! He LOVES you! He has a plan for YOU! Returning unto him is all in the hands of our own agency, faith to trust in him and his plan. So… Will we walk with him? Will we follow in his footsteps? Sorry this is so long!!! I love and miss you all like crazy! Keep updating me on your lives, and send me any good talks you've heard recently, tryna find some good ones! Love you! Love, Sister Coon 🩷