Oct 21, 2013
Sounds like you had a fun outside week at the apartments
this week, and I would say leave the other cutting to Stuart, I bet he misses
all of that yard work :) You know since hes working harvest and all... but he
would not mind doing it at all, you know Stuart, hes awesome like that.
Im glad that seminary is going well for you! Hopefully it
keeps until Christmas break... because I feel like Christmas is around the
corner... but its not. Its not even my birthday yet! Thank you for sending me
packages! I love them already! And Im glad that the lady in Thriftway was so
helpful! I kinda hate going into the post office because I feel like they are
always cranky about whatever it is they have to do for me... so Im glad that
she was friendly!
Thank you for the addresses and Garrets email. This week
my letter is going to be short because Im being kicked off in 4 minutes...
LAME! We didnt go to the church to email today, we came to the library because
we are going to go explore old downtown Bethlehem! Im excited. Sorry this email
is so short!
We had a pretty good week and a few miracles happened. I
will copy and paste the story I shared with President, so it wont be geared
toward this audience, so if you need to change things than change them before you
post it please! Like change the names perhaps?
I am learning a lot about what it means to follow the
spirit exactly! We watched a documentary about President Monson and I really
connected with some of his stories. They ended saying that he made the promise
to never ignore a prompting again! You think duh! but its true you have to make
that decision!
LOVE YOU! sorry its not loading and I have 20 seconds to
send...
JUST KIDDING! Were back! We were able to get on for
another session, so now I can send that story to you.
"One miracle happened yesterday actually, we got
into the car to go home and I felt like there was one more person we needed to
find that night. But I was wrestling with myself on how we were going to find
them. I looked at my planner at the people that we didnt get to see that day
and I said 'can we stop by one more person' S. Carrigan said 'sure! who?' and I
wasnt quite sure. But I said LaMartin, now there were two of that lived close
together, both less active individuals. We went to the first house and I was
excited to see what lay in store since the spirit was constraining me so
strongly to find the last person of the evening. We knocked on the door and
guess what? She had moved. I was confused what we were supposed to do! I
thought this was where we needed to be. I told S. Carrigan I don’t know what to
do, and it might be because I get nervous 5x5ing after dark.
She then reminded me that there was another LaMartin
around the corner. So we went there to try and contact him. His wife answered
the door and it was dark so I couldn’t see her face. I asked if Gentry was home
and she said 'I know you two! We were in the session together' and then I was
really confused, session? Then Gentry walked over to the door and they invited
us in. We found out that Gentry has been a member for a while but goes through
phases of activity and inactivity. He is now married to Cindy and she is not a member,
but they were at church last week in our Sunday school class about tithing. I
had no idea she wasnt a member. Were new enough that we are still getting to
know the ward and everyone seemed to know who he was so I figured they were an
AM couple we hadnt met yet.
We were able to have a discussion with him on how he
found the church and then his wife joined us. (she was running around putting
things away and getting their 10 year old ready for bed etc. they had just got
home from a picnic or something outside and she was trying to get everything
ready for work and such the next morning.) but she came in long enough for S.
Carrigan to share a scripture and then for us to say a prayer.
We learned that she has just lost someone in her family
and she told us that Gentry loved the missionaries and makes a point to tell
everyone quite often! They told us that they were reading the B of Mormon
together and that they watched the Mormon channel and discussed the gospel a
lot. He calls her a closet Mormon because when she learns new doctrine she says
it makes sense. She also thanked us for the great lesson on tithing! That was
cool!
We were able to set a RA for a night next week when they
would both be home and their son would be home as well.
The spirit is always right! I am so grateful that I
listened to the spirit and made a point to find the one last person that
night!"
5x5 is 'tracting' but when you have a specific house to
go to, like when we receive a referral and they aren’t home we try to figure
out why we are there then. So we knock 5 doors to the left and 5 doors to the
right until we find whoever we are there for. Its intimidating, but you get to
meet lots of interesting people!
We also got to eat dinner at a members house this week
that was really fun. They have two teenage boys who are only a year or two
apart and so they pick at each other and such, it was funny to sit and watch
them interact because it was so a Sunday night dinner at our home growing up!
You know the asking 5 times and then it turns into yelling 5 times to do
anything including come to the table! Its funny because I see how utterly
ridiculous we were! Dont worry mom, I finally figured it out! It only took 22
years! well.. almost 23 but thats not the point!
Anyways, thank you mom and dad for putting up with all of
us all these years! And dont worry, pay back is coming... sooner than I know
it.
Also exciting this week Ashley had her interview for her
Baptism that is taking place this coming Sunday! We are really excited for her!
As are the Elders in Easton. They actually started teaching her and so they are
able to come and be at the Baptism to support Ashley :) So it will be good to
have them there as well.
We also had our car die on us. AWESOME. We went out one
morning to start the car and it just wouldn’t. No there were no lights left on
over night... yes we waited for an hour for a member to come and jump our car,
and NO it didn’t work. So then we had to call the vehicle coordinator, wait for
his approval to be able to call Pep Boys and then they had us call a towing
service. So it was a lot of hurry up and waits that day! Turns out the battery
died, so it went into the shop and Teancum came out with a beautiful new
battery :) (Yes, we named our corolla Teancum :)
But in the events of this day we were calling one of our
ward members, and some of the quotes of the call include but are not limited
too: Im making soup (at 10 am), see what I did is I got AAA because I cant do
anything with cars, if you need anything holla at me, and he said good bye
with: take care my friend. You would never guess that this was a grown man with
adult children, but it was. And we love calling and talking to him now! Hes
awesome and super funny!
We also got to teach primary this week. We talked about
being thankful and recognizing our blessings, because we first have to
recognize that they are blessings in order to be able to share that with
others! So in order to do missionary work first we have to list all our
blessings. We passed out papers and told them to list 10 things they are
grateful for and bring them back next week. We also colored Todd the Turkey,
who has no tail feathers. He has to earn his tail feathers through the primary
before thanksgiving! We challenged them to come up with 1000 things they are
thankful for by thanksgiving. Theres about 40 of them so we shall see if they
rise to the challenge! Senior primary even did the math and it will take them a
few weeks to get all 1000 things. So it should be good. Plus we get to go to
primary for a few minutes every week now! So thats fun. Also we handed out
Jolly Ranchers and we had a huge bad so after church I was walking through the
halls passing out candy and so the kids loved me :) It was great fun. Plus you
learn who also has a sweet tooth, I know Im not the only one! Even if I do have
a sandwich bag of Jolly Ranchers in my purse right now... :)
OH and we went into the family history center this week,
and shout out to Aunt Duana, we were clicking through our family trees to see
how far back we could go. Sister Carrigan was really excited because she got
all the way back to 400 BC... and then I kept going and going and going. Did
you know that Duana researched a direct line all the way back to Adam? Yeah,
now you know! "cause its mikes super short show!" (anyone get the
reference?)
But how cool is that?! We go all the way back to 'Adam,
Father of Man kind' also Adam and Eve have a 30 year age difference according
to their records.... but thats so cool!
I wish I knew more about family history work.
Mom and Keira, how is that coming? I found out that since
dad did all his work on PAF we will have to transfer the records over, but
there are church record numbers on every person, so once we get enough of them
put into the other line it should pull up everyone since they are linked
together and all. So it wont take as much effort as I thought it would to link
everything over to familysearch.com So maybe see what Stuart and Keira can do
about that come thanksgiving while everyone is there? Cause I know that Stuart
was wanting to get into family history work, not sure what line he is working
on.
anyhow, I should go read Stuart and Lindys letters.
Thanks for everything! Love you all! The gospel is true, and it heals people
and families everyday. I’ve seen it and you can too.
LOVES sister Wilson :)
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