Well,
I suppose last Monday wasn't the happiest of Mondays for us because of
one specific event. V. (our wonderful 70 + year old investigator) called us last Monday and told me that
since the sister from California (me) is in Barnesville and the sister
from Washington (Sister Warner) is in Los Mountain, she was only going
to let us come by until they were both gone. Our theologies are
different, and she doesn't want us to come by anymore. I tried to tell
her that I was the sister from California, but she hung up on us.
I wasn't going to give up on her that easily, so we went on a
blitz in our area with the traveling sisters- Sister Huntsman (one of
the sisters that lived with me in Atlanta with Sister Jarman!) and
Sister Burkle. Sister Burkle and I knocked on her door and she didn't
open the door although her truck was there. I called her and she didn't
answer, so I left a message. Fast forward a few days to Friday, Sister
Sullivan and I went by again and she opened the door. I waved at her
grinning, and then she closed the door just as fast saying goodbye in a
bitter tone. I'm pretty sad since I know that Satan was working on her
hard. I just know that she got an answer to her prayer that the Book of
Mormon is true, which scared her because she's been Methodist for 70+
years.
Sister Burkle and I found an amazing new investigator named
J. at the very end of the night that V. ignored us! Diligence is my saving grace, all
the time! J. loves learning about religions since she took a religion
class recently, and one of the class projects was to learn about a specific
religion that interested her. She knows a lot about us, but she didn't
know much about the Book of Mormon. The reason why she chose ours is
because one of her good friends converted to Baptist because his wife
was Baptist, and it was putting a strain on their marriage. She thought
to herself, "What's the difference between the two if they're both
Christian?" We had her read Moroni 10:3-5, and most people just read it
without much thought, but she was really dissecting it and pondering on
what it meant to her. She even works for a LDS jewelry company Origami
Owl, and we are seeing her tomorrow! :)
I went on another exchange on Wednesday with Sister Freeman,
and we were stuck at Pep Boys for three hours as we got our oil changed, tires rotated, and then they told us we needed new tires because they were
dangerous. We got Taco Bell and made weird faces as we were getting
brain freezes from the slushies that we got there, it was a happy hour. :)
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| Nothing like a "brain freeze" on a hot, humid Georgia day! |
Not to mention we have matching shirts! :D We tracted in the pouring
rain which was fun, but no one wanted to talk to us except another
J., who knew V.
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| Love our matching shirts and love going out with Sister Freeman! |
Remember T. K.? :) He's someone who was a former
investigator, but I noticed that he came to church multiple times so I
HAD to try to set up a lesson with him back when I was companions with
Sister Warner. He's an on call therapist, and the first lesson I had
with him, we talked about the church's twelve step Addiction
Recovery Program. He's been to church a few times since then, and the
last lesson we had with him was a mixture of the Plan of Salvation, and
the Restoration because his mother in law passed away recently. Finally
this week we were able to teach him the entire Restoration in the Camps
home. Before we began teaching, he talked about how much he loved the
church, but how he's not going to wear a white shirt and tie because
he wore it way too much back in the old days. At the end of the lesson,
we invited him to be baptized and he said that it wasn't a problem.
Sister Camp chimed in and asked, "So when are we going to baptize you?"
We all laughed and T. told Brother Camp, "Take me to your man cave!"
and we all laughed again. Then we said, "In all seriousness, we're
holding a baptismal service on September 13th, will you prepare yourself
for that date?" T. remarks, "I don't see a problem with that!" and he
whips out his calendar on his phone to make sure that he isn't working
that day. MIRACLES. So exciting!
We noticed that M. and B. (our sweet couple) were pretty distant this
week, and we weren't entirely sure why. Apparently when they were at the
church for the tour, B. had a feeling that if they went to church,
Lil' M. would get kidnapped in nursery. She's had feelings like this
before, and sometimes they come true and sometimes they don't. We tried
to console her as she cried and told us about an experience when it did
come true about her papa dying. Sister Wood, (a member of our ward) was with us and she has a
child in nursery as well. She explained to her that Lil' M. doesn't
have to go to nursery, he could stay with her for all three hours. We
asked her to pray about it to see if this feeling is from God, or from
Satan. She agreed to do that on Friday, but they didn't come to church
yet once again. We asked if we could come again this week to make sure
that they weren't dropping us, and they aren't thankfully. We'll just
have to help her realize that Lil' M. won't be in danger at church.
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