Oh, The Ups and Downs of Missionary Work!

Sister Hunt and I around Christmas Time

This week Michelle dropped us and said that she doesn't want to get baptized and doesn't want to come to church, but she's fine with us still having bible study with her. So that's a hard place to be. For now we will continue to have shorter visits with her once a week.

Tuesday was the last day of the month and we had a lot of extra miles so we used them to go and visit some less active members of the Branch. We had some great visits and one couple, who don't come to church for health reasons, wants us to come and visit with them again next week. :) It is always so amazing to see these people who physically cannot come to church but still have that great desire to and such a strong testimony.

That night we had dinner with the Zrubek's again. After eating some really yummy enchiladas and rice and brownies we watched their kids do some small fireworks before running over to visit with Sister Butler. We had a great visit with her and I saw the BIGGEST dog I have ever seen in my life! (Hopefully pictures to come soon) Her son was in town for Christmas and it was his dog.

 

Here are pictures of Sister Butler and I with the GIANT dog and little Lulu

Wednesday we had a Zone Training Meeting that talked a lot about how to work with members and how to help them to do missionary work.

On Monday we had an appointment with Sarah, but she had a funeral to go to so she needed to cancel. We rescheduled for Thursday evening. That night we had a 17 year old young woman, also named Sarah, come with us. It was so great to have her there with us while we taught Sarah about the Restoration. She has some really great questions, she's started reading the Book of Mormon, and she is open to being baptized when she learns of the truthfulness of our message. She said that we were coming into her life at a specific time for a reason. I love her so much! We will be setting up another appointment with her sometime today. We were going to go help her take her Christmas lights down on Saturday  and she was going to come to church yesterday, but she got sick and it was REALLY cold on Saturday and she didn't want us to be working in the cold.
 

The rest of the week was full of studies, visits to less active members, and facebook lessons. I am so happy that I get to stay here with Sister Hunt for at least another transfer! She and I really get along well and we have so much fun! She is so amazing! We also teach really easily and naturally together. This transfer is going to be a good one! :)

 

Hope y'alls week is good and you can all adjust back to normal life after all the holiday fun. I'm so glad to hear that Nathan is alright! I know that the Lord is looking over each of us. I love you !
 

Love,
Sister Shurtz

Sister Hunt and I Being Goofy