hey! its my favorite family!!
thank you so much for the love! i did get erins letter and
it did make me laugh! i insisted on reading it out loud to s mayle because it
was so funny. and she liked it too :) so good! hahaha :)
i also loved the halloween box you sent me! thank you for
the love! i love to be loved! the whole box was perfect, too. thank you thank
you thank you! it was a wonderful surprise. seriously, i love it!
i am glad erin had a good birthday. i hope she liked the
gifts i gave her. really though, i know the animal print is my thing, which is
why i included the receipt. so do what you want, erin! i love you!
ok. this week was so good. SO GOOD! i think i had a single
tear seep out of my face last night because it was such an amazing week.
so for the last.. month or two, we have been getting on
rather good terms with the local 7th day adventist church. this has happened
because we have an investigator who is a member and we occasionally attend
their services with her. she also comes with us when she can. i think she will
start to come more frequently soon :) so anyway, i have been talking with their
pastor over the phone and in person and he has allowed us to invite their whole
congregation to our ward's fall activity! we went to church with her on
saturday. everyone was happy to see us :) during the announcements, the pastor
made the announcement about the activity and told everyone that they could get
invitations from us. he pointed to us and asked us to wave to eeryone so that
they knew who to go to. it was a lovely time. our investigator grabbed a bunch
of them from us and zipped around handing them all out while we stood
pleasantly and gave them to people that approached us. it was amazing!! the
activity is tomorrow, so i will have to let you know next week how it goes. but
boy am i excited.
that congregation is so sweet and loving. the pastor is
great, too. he was prayerful in his consideration of the party and he talked to
me for a while on the phone telling me about all the things we have in common.
he even got to go to the visitors center in slc! we talked about harry anderson
(mine and his favorite gospel artist) and our health codes, oh it was great. i
am so happy! plus we called the primary president (who is in charge of the
activity) and asked her if we could help in any way with the activity. she was
SO HAPPY that we asked her. she said she really needed help and she was
struggling to find people to help her out with the games. so we told her we
would do it and that the elders would, too. we then called the elders and told
them they were helping :) hahahaha :) oh it is a joy to be a sister.
last sunday at ward council we mentioned a family who wants
to come to church after not coming for bout 18 years. they are struggling a
little bit and they really dont know anyone from the ward. after the meeting,
the young mens president came up to us and asked us if they could have an fhe with
the said family. AH! of course! so that went down this week. it was amazing! we
had dinner, and fhe. even the 18 year old son came, and participated. this was
amazing because he has recently been telling his mom that he doesnt believe in
god. wow family. it was top diggity DOG!
on sunday evening, we went over to sister creed's home. we
always have dinner with her on sunday nights. we love her so much. she is less
active because she is a home care provider and the woman that she takes care of
has had some bad experiences with coming to church, so she doesnt want to go to
church buildings, which prevents sister creed from going. we had prepared a
thought to share with her. well. when we showed up, she had a friend over....
eh? a friend? so we sat down and had a lovely dinner and we talked and laughed
and had a good time. her friend told us about some recent trials she has been
experiencing. they are really tough ones, but she is turning to the lord and
that has made it quite possible to face.
at one point i was washing dishes and
the friend went into the other room for a couple of minutes to look at the
puzzle that s creed's.. person had recently finished. while she was in there, s
mayle and i created and agreed on a new lesson plan. when everyone came back together,
we sat back down and s mayle and i explained the book of mormon and shared some
special passages. we (including s creed) bore testimony. s creed wrote in a
book of mormon and gave it to our new friend. she was so thankful. she kept on
telling us that this was perfect timing, that she is so thankful, she is so
happy to meet us and that we are a blessing to her. we are all meeting up again
for dinner on friday! wow! this was all so unexpected and wonderful. she even
let us hug her at the end. when we left, it was one of those times when we
casually walk away until we are out of sight, then we turn to each other with
huge eyes, jump around in the street, hug, silently scream and just keep asking
each other "what just happened? what was that? what just happened?!"
oh it was great. a great time indeed. wow! missionary life is just so good.
i love you very much family! keep being wonderful and i hope
halloween is lovely. keep me posted!
thank you again for everything! i really appreciate all that
you do for me! even the things i am not aware of!
love you! bye!
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