Happy St. Patrick's Day, Shaking hands and Pi! 3/17/14

Hello everyone!

This week has been wonderful. I We had a cool experience on Tuesday. We had planned to go meet an unknown and a less active. We went to the unknown and didn't feel good about it. We decided we would have a member come with us this coming week. We went to the less active to see how she was doing. We pulled up and didn't feel good about that either, so we left. We went to our back up, who was another less active that no one really knows except the bishop I think. I met her about a month ago and she told us that she is almost always sick, she didn't let us in then so I figured that she would probably be sick and not let us in this time either. Me and my little faith.. We got there and she told us that today was one of her good days and that she had just gotten home and that she had prayed that someone would visit her today. We weren't sure why we weren't supposed to be at our other appointments until we got there. We invited her to come to church and she told us to call her Sunday morning. We did, she told us she was ready to go and she came to church! Tender mercies, I love it.

Saturday... Mission Conference! It was amazing and not long enough. There were over 400 missionaries there and we all got to shake Elder Andersons hand. Elder Anderson asked us why we thought they would make an effort to shake everyones hand. I think it shows how much they really care about us as missionaries individually. Which reminds me of dads email this week. He talked about the difference between a Sheep herder and a Shephard- Caring and loving collectively or individually. A question someone asked Elder Anderson was "How did you become more like Christ?" His answer was just by choosing to do good every day. That is something that I have learned on my mission, continually doing good no matter the situation. That is the definition of Enduring to the end. There was so much more, but I am out of time..
Oh and in case any of  you were wondering, I did get to celebrate Pi day! I completlely forgot about it until dinner when we had pie.. I am just glad that I didn't forget and then remember the next day, I might have beat myself up about that. Pi day is probably my favorite holiday :D.

We also talked to the mom of one of our less actives. She isn't a member but loves the bible and has studied religion. After talking to her for a while she told me that I would be married in 2  years and have 2 kids.. We will see about that one!

I better get going, I love you all!

Love,

Sister Kellee Gardner