Happy Monday!
We've been working with a lot
of part member families. I don't want to jinx anything so I'm going to
knock on wood, and let y'all know when we're teaching them. We're going
to start teaching a less active's fiancee, and I have a strong feeling
that he'll become active once she starts investigating the church. She
came to the General Women's Conference and loved it. An. told me that
she 'wanted to be a part of this.' The field is white, all ready to
harvest!
I'm so happy to announce that
J.doesn't have cancer! (She's the one that had the powerful Priesthood
blessing last week.) Satan has been hitting her really hard ever since
that blessing, but she refuses to give in. She's had many trials
recently which prevented us meeting with her. As we were talking to
someone else, she called and I stepped away to answer the phone. J. told
me that she's been reading and studying, and how grateful she is to
have had that blessing because she's drawn strength from it. As she was
speaking part of her blessing came to my mind, "J., you will be healed
from this sickness- whether it's from medicine, or from this blessing."
Le and her family abruptly
moved to one of their family members home's in Fairburn because of the
bad relationship with her landlord. (This is the family where three
individuals were baptized about three weeks ago.) One of their pipes
burst, and that was the last straw for them. They're going to move back
once they find a place to live that they can afford in Fayetteville, and
we're going to ask permission to see them so they won't go less active.
We were once again on a split and we lost Sister Sullivan! There's two
doors to get to their house, and we didn't even think to go on the back
porch to see if they were there. We were calling and texting her, but no
response. The elders were helping them move and told us that they were
on the back porch. Blonde moment... But how was I supposed to know she
was teaching Le's neighbor? :(
We got back in contact with
R., (the man who broke his knee and was in rehab) and he's now walking!
He's finally reading the Book of Mormon, and we'll be teaching him
tomorrow. We have SO many appointments with new investigators that I
found with Sister Huntsman (one of the traveling sisters) on our
exchange on Wednesday. One of them is a guy from England- English accent
and everything! :D I am so excited to teach D!
We've taught many, many
people, and I don't even know who to talk about, ahh! We've gone on
splits every day so we could reach our maximum potential. Sister
Sullivan went to teach the former wrestler with the great mustache and
we found out that they are one of the founding families of the Lutheran
Prince of Peace church in Fayetteville. They asked the loaded question,
"what makes your church any different from ours?" before they told her
that she could come back because they forgot we were coming over. They
were planning for a party so we finally got their number (we couldn't
call to confirm) so we can tell them why our church is different from
theirs. Exciting stuff!
One of the other sister's
investigators, A. absolutely loved hearing about the Plan of Salvation
while I was on exchanges with her. She asked us about what would happen
to her Mom, and we taught her more about baptisms for the dead, and
temple work. She's SO close to having a baptismal date, it's crazy!
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It was a happy Sunday- we found out that we had Ward Council last minute but we had a lesson with Ja. before church. (She's the Beehive aged girl whose mother and younger brother joined the church earlier.) I was inspired to ask Sister Parks to come out with us, and we'd drop off Sister Sullivan at her house so they could visit Ja.. We texted M. to see if we could see his family before church, and he said that he'd be available. (I'm guessing La. and D', his wife and daughter were getting ready for church) M. was very close to accepting a baptismal date, but he doesn't want to make a covenant with God until he's quit smoking, and consistently coming to church. All three of them came, and it was fabulous! We got La.'s number and they're fine with us teaching them separately because M. is gone so much from being a truck driver. Another M. also came to church, and we plan on teaching her this week.
We had a funny
story happen while we were on splits. Apparently G. and I. hadn't been
telling their Dad/husband that they've been meeting with us. He came in
at the very end, so Sister Sullivan and Sister Perkins (a neighbor who
is a member) taught him the Restoration. We thought he was going to come
to church too, since he's trying to act all aloof and mysterious. We
have another appointment with him again on Tuesday, and we're hoping to
have a member from another ward sit with G.'s Mom during church so the
entire family can come and experience church for themselves!
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