Monday
we had our usual preparation day activities and then had dinner with
Brother and Sister Cheney and Brother Whitaker. After dinner we went to
Walmart to buy Sister Behrmann a box of tissues because she has been
having a lot of allergies or a virus or something and her nose was
running for the rest of the night. She managed to use the whole box of
tissues in 5 days!
Tuesday
we had interviews with President and Sister Bernhisel. It is always so
wonderful to get to see them and spend a little bit of time with them.
The spirit that they have is so strong that you can't help but feel it.
After interviews and district meeting we helped Sister Evans and helped
to move some things out of her closet so her daughter can store her
wedding dress there. She is also in the ward and is getting married in
October.
After seeing Sister Evans we went to teach Joe. In
our lesson he told us that he "could not wrap his head around giving up
coffee and tea." So instead of teaching him the lesson we had planned we
just read from the Book of Mormon with him. It was a good lesson, but
he still isn't committing to anything.
That night we had dinner with the Babson's and they
took us out to Fuzzy Peach (frozen yogurt) afterwards. I know I say this
ever week... but I love this family!
Wednesday was a day of phone calls and no one being home... ever.
On Thursday
we had Bishop Fish and the Mintz's come with us to Joe's and they gave
him a blessing. It was SO GOOD! I love the Priesthood! The fact that the
Lord can speak through men and they can answer questions and promise
blessings to a man that they don't know a whole lot about and it fits
perfectly with his life and the trials he is facing. After his blessing
we watched "Finding Faith in Christ" and talked about faith.
After our lesson Bishop had us over to his
house for dinner and then we went to the church to play volleyball. It
was fun and I got a really good carpet burn on my knee.
Friday
we had our member who wanted to feed us lunch call us an hour early and
say she was already at Waffle House because she was hungry and she read
her clock wrong. (When a 90 year old woman calls you and tells you
that, you just go along with is and get there as soon as you can!) After
lunch we were walking out of Waffle House and started talking to Pat,
who works at Waffle House but was outside taking a smoke break. Last
time we went to Waffle House we gave him a Book of Mormon. He said he
hadn't read but was interested in coming to church. As we were talking, a
18 year old boy, Alex, comes walking out of Waffle House just to talk
to us! He said he saw "Jesus Christ" on our name tags and wanted to see
what we were all about. We gave him a mormon.org
card and Pat invited him to church for us! haha Neither one came this
week, but hopefully they will one day. And if our member hadn't gotten
there early, we never would have met Alex and we wouldn't have gotten to
talk to Pat on his break. Everything happens for a reason! Remember
that!
After lunch we did weekly planning and then had our ward Pioneer Day activity.
Saturday
was a crazy day where nothing really worked out the way we planned. We
had a lesson set up with Mesha, but she was a no show... for the second
time this week. And the computer at the church (which is as old as a
dinosaur) is really slow so our Facebook appointment fell through too.
But we did get to visit Brother Nemerov! He is doing good, but still has
no desire to come to church.
Sunday
we visited a less active, Sister Pollock, and had a really great lesson
with her. Then we had dinner and stopped by the Cox family to find that
Brother Cox was bitten this week by a brown recluse spider and since
had developed staff and then merca. So needless to say, we did not go
inside or stay very long. We had a lesson with Brother and Sister
Smigiel and talked more about the Book of Mormon and some of their
concerns. We also got to hold their new puppies that are smaller than
the size of my hand! So cute!
That wraps up my week. But it is always an
adventure! This next week we are doing back to back exchanges with the
Sisters up in Wilmington and the week after that we have our meeting up
in Raleigh again. Thank y'all so much for all the support and
encouragement that you send me and even if I'm terrible at responding or
saying "Thank you," that doesn't mean that I don't love and appreciate
it. So thank you!
Love,
Sister Shurtz
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