Family, this week was just awesome!!! I cant believe it is my last transfer... Well, Hermana Hicks is gone. I miss her a ton. But, it has been fun being back with Hermana Tuttle.
So, there are these two kids that come to church every single week with their grandpa. Their mother is less active and hasn’t wanted anything to do with the church. People have tried to ask if the missionaries could teach her kids and nothing. She said that she doesn’t want them to be baptized or go to church. We had the task of getting in contact with her and asking her if we could teach her boys. So, we have been trying to visit her for 2 months now and this week we finally got in!!!! Z. is SO sweet!!! Holy Moly!!! We had the best visit with her talking about her job, her nails, and her going back to school to get her high school diploma. We didn’t talk about the church, we just tried to be her friend. She invited us back, and was so warm and friendly with us. It was amazing!!!
We also met with Hermana G. She is so so so amazing!!! She is not able to come to church because her husband is very against it. But, she was so kind, so loving and so sweet with us. She asked us to share a message from the Book of Mormon, told us about a special spiritual experience and said "We need to share this message!" and is going to talk with a friend of hers to see if we can start visiting her!
We got to go to see I. in his Tae Kwon Do competition. We didn’t know that is was going to cost money to get in, $10 bucks a person! We didn’t have the money and we didn’t know what to do. We went to tell the guy we couldn’t pay and to ask if we could just run in and tell the him and his family that we wouldn’t be able to make it. He smiled and said "Ladies don’t worry about it" stamped our hands and let us in for free :)
S. and J. are doing awesome!!!! We saw them last night and it was SO good! J. continues to ask us a lot of questions. We had them watch the Restoration video and they both loved it! We talked about the Book of Mormon and J. had question after question. I felt so calm, and felt a special strength helping us when we were there. I am not afraid to answer his questions and I feel so confident. He thinks it is all very interesting. The cool part is that as we were leaving we asked him to read the Book of Mormon and to pray. He was iffy about the pray part, but, finally said that he would. As we were leaving he looked at me and said "You are convincing me.” hahaha! Little does he know that the spirit is getting to him! He is changing. He is starting to feel it! There is no doubt about it!
I love you all so so so so so so so much!!!!
OH! I forgot to tell y’all!!! I also had to give a talk on Sunday in church. It was about what Christ means to me. I don’t know what came over me and it was not planned, but, I shared with the ENTIRE branch my story about missing the wedding and getting lice at the same time. I wasn’t sure why I did it, but... I did. The rest of the day at church and afterwards as well, people were coming up and thanking me. They said they appreciate my humility and willingness to share. haha. People thanked me over and over again. haha. So, I guess the Columbia third branch benefited from my traumatizing lice experience. :)
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