Dearest Family~
I'm not quite sure what to talk about this week... and I'm running out of good first lines to my emails... if I had any to start with. It has been coldish and rainy all week! Today is no exception! It is a weird August, but I really don't mind it not being super hot outside. :)
Bobbie is continuing to make changes in her life and is truly letting the gospel change her. I love her so much!
Debbie... have I told her about her? We had great hopes for her and had just taught her the restoration... for the 3rd time and felt like she was really progressing. She is a very close to the spirit and really loves the Lord. This week she told us that she has decided to stay at her other church. It was a lot like being dumped when you're in a relationship. One of those "it's not you, it's me" moments. We continue to talk to her every now and then and hope that she might change her mind one day.
We had a really great Relief Society activity this week! It was supposed to be a real low key get together type of thing... which was perfect to invite people to come to! We had Marsha Graham come as well as a lot of less-active sisters. We talked about how we are a circle of sisters and we are always there for each other and there to support each other. After a good message from the RS presidency we had time to socialize and eat some ice cream. They had everyone bring different toppings and it was quite a variety! haha Marsha really enjoyed it and asked some good questions. Hopefully she will be more willing to come to church in the future and stay for all 3 hours.
Brother Williams is doing well and is continuing to come to church, do his home teaching, and even shows up on Saturday mornings to help clean the church! It is amazing to see the changes he is making and hopefully will continue to make.
This week we also met with the Robinsons. The husband is not a member and Sister Robinson and their three children are a little bit on the less-active side. Brother Robinson has been learning about the church from missionaries for YEARS. He basically is a member and lives his life that way, except for things like coffee and wine. I really love spending time with their family and helping him answer questions he has. It is all in the Lord's time and I know one day he will get there!
Saturday was a day of knocking on doors. We were in the neighborhood of a less-active we wanted to visit but decided to talk to his neighbors for a bit first. It was raining / sprinkling all day and after a couple of hours, my hair was crazy! It was half soaked from the rain, half frizzy because of the humidity and looked nothing like the nice straightened hair I had started the day with! I have just accepted that I am a missionary and it doesn't matter. :) Anyways... the neighbors were all extremely nice and we had long conversations with about 5 of them! They all had questions and we answered them and it was just a great day to be a missionary! :) And then the person we were there to see wasn't even home, it is all in the Lord's hands!
After that we went to the Grahams and helped with some service and also showed them a great video about prophets from Mormon channel. (You should go look at some of those videos sometime... they're great!)
Yesterday we had a miracle of sorts happen. We stopped by our neighbor's, Joyce and her daughters Janier and Janelle. We had a good conversation with them about what we do as missionaries and also about our church and asked if we could come back in a couple of hours (when we had more time) to show them a video about our church. They said yes... and then when we returned, the girls were gone and Joyce wasn't feeling well (she has a lot of medical issues) and their friend Daniel was the only one there and he answered the door. At first he didn't look too happy and was confused about why we were there. He came outside and we ended up talking about how he feels like he needs to get closer to God and make changes in his life especially because he is going through some really hard times right now. We only talked for about a half an hour, but I already have a love for him! He is a son of God who loves him so much and wants him to return to Him one day! I hope that we can meet up with him for a church tour this week!
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| District Meeting! :) |
Well... that's about all I think. Transfers are next week so we'll see what happens on Saturday when the District Leaders call.
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