Yesterday Sister Behrmann reminded me of the fact that I only have 4 months left before I'm home. Crazy how fast time flies!
For
Preparation day last Monday we went to Southport and did some fun
touristy things. Southport is a small town that is known for having some
movies filmed there. The movie Safe Haven was filmed there and we saw
some of the buildings used in the movie. (Having never seen the movie I
didn't know the significance... but one day when I see the movie I will
understand) We also saw the light house... from afar. We visited the
Christmas House in town as well as some other cute shops.
Tuesday we planned a lesson we were giving in Zone
Training meeting the next day about the importance of the spirit. Then
we tried stopping by some former investigators in Shallotte and had a
really good talk with Mr. Chapman. He is a math teacher and knows a lot
of the LDS families because he has taught their children over the years.
He is really nice and we are hoping to be able to stop by in a couple
of weeks to talk again. After that we knocked on some doors. One woman
opened the door and said "Come on in!" She was an older woman and as we
talked her daughter and son came in. They were planning on going to look
for some new carpet for the house. We asked if we could share a
scripture with them and the son quickly responded, "No thank you Ma'am."
He responded the same when we offered a mormon.org card. Needless to say it was just an awkward situation, but we planted a seed!
After that we went to see Sister Evans, who broke
her ankle 6 weeks ago, and visited with her. That night we had dinner
with the Granthams. Sister Grantham is a less active member and Brother
Grantham isn't a member. They have two adorable German Shepards! They
have so many fun stories and it is great to spend some time with them
and they always spoil us with good food.
Wednesday morning we drove to Wilmington for Zone
Training meeting. At the meeting we met the new sisters we will be going
on exchanges with. Both sets of Sisters are training so we have Sister
Jones training Sister Skokos and Sister Avondet is training Sister Bell.
Also! There is a new Elder in the zone (Elder Yates) who is from
Quincy!
After the meeting we did service at the Library and then had a lesson with Joe! Joe is amazing! He is still on date for August 23rd
and we will be teaching him the Word of Wisdom tomorrow. He didn't make
it to church yesterday because he was in the hospital.... pretty good
reason to not come if you ask me. But he called to apologize for not
coming and explain why. He's just amazing! After our lesson with Joe we
tried stopping by the Hooks, a less active couple, and they invited us
in and to stay for dinner! We had a good visit and after we visited
Sister King who lives just down the road from them.
Thursday we did service at the thrift store and had a
lesson with Brother Evans. We weren't able to find a member to come
with us, so we ended up teaching him outside for about an hour. Luckily
it wasn't hot that day and the rain held off just long enough for us to
teach him. Blessings!!! He said he would come to church... but yesterday
he didn't come. We'll see what happened. On our way back to Shallotte
we stopped by the Frink family for a visit. Sister Frink was in Young
Women's until a couple weeks ago and Brother Frink is less active. We
hadn't met him yet so we stopped by. We had a good visit with them and
were able to share Ether 12:4 with them about being anchored in Christ
and through our faith in Him having hope. After that we went to dinner
with the Babson's. They are one of our favorite families! They have such
cute children and great stories every time we see them!
Friday we had planned on doing our weekly
planning... and it ended up taking all day because we had a surprise
conference call with the Zone Leaders, District Leaders, and other set
of Sister Leaders that no one thought to inform us of until they
realized we weren't on the call. Apparently every Friday morning we will
be a part of a conference call with the leaders in the Wilmington Zone.
After that we had to figure out what we are going to do about exchanges
this transfer with our sisters and how many miles it will take for each
exchange and for our monthly meeting in Raleigh. Who thought it would
be a good idea to have Sister Leaders in the farthest corner of the
mission!?!? Oh well, it'll all work out. We will be using our miles very
wisely from now on because it is an extra 500+ miles for exchanges and
meetings. Hopefully they will be giving us some more miles, but as of
now it looks like we'll probably end up using our bikes a little bit!
Saturday we visited Sister Evans again and taught
her the Plan of Salvation. She has such amazing insights and such a
strong testimony. I just love her! That night we had dinner with the
Apple family again and taught them / had a discussion about the
Restoration. It was good, there were a few tangents, but a lot of good
comparisons. We were talking about the difference between "reforming"
something and "restoring" something and Brother Apple said that if you
had a bike and you were going to restore it you would make it look the
same as it was originally. You would Keep it "Classy." If you were going
to reform it, you would "pimp it out." We all laughed for a while about
that one.
Sunday we had church in our building! We had a
really good testimony meeting that we wish Joe and Brother Evans would
have been there for. Last night we also had a really good lesson with
the Smigiels. Brother Smigiel is a new investigator! We taught the
Restoration last night and helped him to understand more about prophets
and Joseph Smith and I wish I could have a picture of the face he made
when it clicked! He looked at us and said, "I didn't realize he was only
14 years old when this happened." We will be teaching them again next
Sunday and hopefully Sister Smigiel will start coming back to church now
too!
Miracles happen! Love ya!
Sister Shurtz
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