Dear Family,
I loved hearing from Dad and Renae about all the missionary activity going on back home. This really is an amazing time in the church and a great time to serve the Lord. I have come to find how important it is that the members and the missionaries trust, love, and support each other. This week has been another crazy week full of tracting, visiting less actives, and part member families. Thursday and Friday we had meetings from 9-3 for new missionaries and for sister leaders (which I am not, but Sister Brown is so I got to go to that one too). I absolutely love President and Sister Bernhisel and know that they are inspired to be in this area at this time.
Saturday we spent tracting and after dinner we stopped by one family that had been investigating the church with the elders who were in this area before but had fallen through the cracks a little bit. First of all... this area is FULL of ASIANS! There are a lot of people who move here from China and India to work for different computer companies. This family, (Lifen - mom, How - dad, Utoh - 10 yr old daughter) has been here for about a year and still have some troubles with english and even believing that there is a God. It is such a challenge! Especially when they ask us questions about tea because that is such a large part of their culture. Fortunately I feel like I was able to help them understand a little bit about the word of wisdom and we also explained what being a missionary is like so they aren't confused anymore about what happened to the elders and where we came from. We invited them to come to church the next day but they didn't sound like they were going to be planning on that.
Sunday was a day full of miracles. Lifen came to church and she loved it! Also, there was a woman who moved here from India two weeks ago to work for a computer company and she said, "I looked out the window of my bedroom and saw this church and I was so happy! I thought, I will go to that church this week" She has never heard of our faith before but she was part of a christian church in India before moving here. She is here completely by herself, no family or friends really. She loved church and asked if she could come back every week. Of course we told her that would be great! We are going to call her later today and set up a time to teach her in a member's home this week. Slowly but surely and through God's mercies and miracles we are finding and helping people to come unto Christ.
Last night on our way home from a member's home we decided to stop by the Smith Family (I don't remember if I've told you anything about them yet). They are an older couple who are less active because he has Parkinson's disease and it is very difficult for him to leave the house. We have stopped by a couple times before now and have met their son (50's and very in active) who lives with them. When we showed up last night their son asked us if someone had called us, we looked at him confused and said no and he informed us that Brother Smith was on hospice and it was close to his time to go. We told Sister Smith we didn't need to stay but she asked us to come and talk in Bob's room because she said it would make him happy to see us. So we stayed for a little while and left a message of hope and peace with them. It was sad to see but I know he has lived a good life and he has a good heart and when he goes, he will return to our father in heaven and they will be together again one day.
Remember to stay strong and to look for those people around you who are being prepared to hear the restored gospel.
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