January 25, 2016

Hey Everyone I hope you were able to have a great week! Well we had a crazy week but it was amazing to be able to see tender mercy's come from our struggles. On Friday it was awesome because we got to go and serve at the Senior Center. We first went and pretty much made TV dinners by putting food in and then sealing the containers. Then we put silverware in napkins and rolled them up. Then we served food to the people who don't have homes. It felt great! Then we had to go to Tacoma to be able to go to the Dr. for Sister Soko ( whose real last name is Sokoiwasa) but we were stuck in traffic fro about 3 hours and were late. So we left for Tacoma at about 12:30 and didn't get home till 6 it was crazy!!!!! But even though it was a rough emotional day I got letters from my family right when I needed them and I knew that it was no coincidence. 

So Sister Soko is follow-up training me and this is her 4th transfer (and this is my 2nd transfer). She is a convert of about 3 years and now she has 3 siblings Including her (out of 9 kids) members and also her parents. So we go OYMing ( which is opening your mouth about the gospel) over by the beautiful Capital Lake/ the docks. 

We have 2 new investigates with follow-up apt this week. So Johnny, who is a less actives friend, is one and we talked to him about faith and in his words "the 2nd Bible". He was excited to read more in the Book of Mormon and we will see him Friday. Then we met Jim last night who is Catholic and talked to him about the Book of Mormon. We told him about how it is another Testament of Jesus Christ, and how after Jesus I resurrected he goes to the people in the Americas to teach them and he was really interested! So we will see!!!!!

Lots of Love           

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Sister Beck

This pretty double rainbow while we are waiting in dumb traffic

How we feel about the traffic 

  Sister Soko and I at the Docks

A conversation we had through email:  well for the senior Center thing i need to get a food handlers permit so that is what I'm doing now so I can talk for a little bit while I have to listen....

When asked the question if she cooks some fun meals for lunch or breakfast?  I am boring and lazy possibly because I have a time limit of an hour and would rather spend time on other things so I make grilled cheese and oatmeal a lot! but it is good... I love this Hummus from Walmart that is a pine nut one really good and I eat that a lot!  Tonight I'm going to make shepherds pie... I got the ingredients today so I'm excited!!!

Do you go back to your apartment to eat or just grab something while you are out?  Ya sometimes we do both.... actually so far in the Olympia ward I have only had 2 member meals.

 Here are two pictures posted on the Wa-Tac blog.

Also my sweet sister, Heather and her family were travelling through to go to Paul's grandma's house and decorated Camille's door that evening.  Camille had an awful day and was very discouraged.  She said, "But when we came home Saturday night after the CRAZY day... We found that we were heart attacked by the Jamisons!!!!! And we were in such awww of Heavenly Fathers timing. And I had been thinking a lot about Patience and Christ Like Love that whole day and guess what the sacrament talks were on the next day... Love and Patience......" 

Cara Sabin sent me this picture that was taken with one of Cara's neighbors at BYU-Idaho- she lives in Camille's ward in Olympia.