Well, hello. :) I can't believe that another week has
already passed! Goodness gracious. *whew*
Um.... so..... right. Last Monday.
The Chestnuts cancelled. Again. :( We're hoping
that they won't cancel today. But we went to the Higleys, and did a
lesson on goal-setting. It went really well. :) I love being with
the Higleys. They're so much fun. :)
And it was a good thing that we did that lesson too--
because the next day we went to zone conference, and it was all about
goal-setting! WAY FOR US TO BE PREPARED!! :D But we also learned
some exciting news:
We're going to have a mission-wide conference at the end of
February! :D
Wanna know why?
Elder Neilson of the Seventy is coming, Sister Marriott from
the Young Women Presidency is coming....
AND ELDER L. TOM PERRY OF THE QUORUM OF THE TWELVE
APOSTLES IS COMING!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D How exciting
is that?!?! I'm so stinking excited!!!!!! I remember when I got to
shake his hand-- it was when I went to sing for General Conference, and we were
waiting under the conference Center. And Elder Perry walks by and shook
all of our hands. So for me, this is really exciting. :) It brings
back good memories. I'm really excited. :) I can't wait until the
end of the month! I'm definitely going to prepare myself spiritually to
get the most that I can out of this. :)
Anyways, the rest of Tuesday was good too. We Visited
the Rasmussens, a less-active family of the 3rd ward (one of THREE Rasmussens
we have in our are. And none of them are related. Awkward.).
Anyways, they're a super cool family. They know the gospel, and they know
that they need to come to church, they just simply aren't coming right
now. But they're going to let us teach them the lessons!
WHOOT! It's super exciting. :) They're an awesome family-- and we
finally got to meet their 8-year old son, Tyler. He's funny. :) He
has more energy then he knows what to do with it!!
Wednesday was full of fun opportunities. :) That
morning, I cut and dyed Colleens hair, Sister Lawrences' daughter. and
then that afternoon, we got to go clean up the baptismal font with Sister
Taylor! How awesome is that?! I never really thought about cleaning
out the font, but it totally makes sense. Anyways, that was super fun and
a neat experience. That night, we went over to Karysma's house, and the
cake-off didn't really happen, since only Sister Gray made a cake, but we had
fun eating the cake. :) After that, we went over to Glenda Prices
home. Like I said last week, we were going to start the 12-step program
with her, and we're each going to give up something. So, Sister Gray is
giving up coke. And what am I giving up?.... hair product.
Yup. The only thing I can use in my hair is shampoo. What am I
thinking? I don't really know. I'm on day 5 of no product, and I'm
sort of going crazy. But anyways, Sister Price is very appreciative of
the fact that we're willing to do this with her, and I know that going though
this will bless her life. After Sister Price, we were able to go visit
the Schwabs, and set up an appointment to continue the lessons with them.
:) YAY!
On Thursday, after Weekly Planning, we went to the Klemmons,
another less-active family in 3rd ward. They're fun to be around. :)
We invited them to come to church (again), and they committed to come
(again). They didn't come (again). But that's okay-- we're going to
visit them every Thursday now, so they can't escape us now. >:) sister
Klemmon was talking about how exciting she was because James wants to advance
in the priesthood.... and when I turned and asked him he was kind of like
"eh..... it's sort of my grandma's idea..." haha. That kid
cracks me up. Good, good kid with a big heart. :) We also saw the
Pfieffers on Thursday. They're doing good. No where near taking lessons
yet, but they're doing good.
Mmm..... Friday....... is it bad that I can't really
remember Friday? Um.... we had breakfast with the stake president
and the other missionaries in the district. then we had a lesson with the
Hellyers. What started as a discussion on the Priesthood turned into a
discussion of coffee. Ugh. I really wish that Brother Hellyer would
realize that there are other ways to help his health problems than
coffee. No matter what we say, even when we say that we aren't judging
him for drinking coffee, he doesn't listen.
... yup. I don't remember anything else about
Friday. I have stuff highlighted, but I don't remember what happened.
Um.... Saturday.... We saw the Taylors. Had a good
visit with them. And came home. Sister Gray had hurt her
back. So we just went out for our one appointment.
And Sunday. Oh! SUNDAY!!! The Schwabs came
to church!!!! But even better!!!!! We got to teach them Lesson 2
that night! (Yeah, we got inside a house on Super Bowl night. MIRACLE!!!)
The lesson went really well-- both Brother Schwab and Zach understood the
lesson and really enjoyed it! They both asked great questions too.
Brother Schwab said that for the first time since he originally took the
lessons he understood how the Kingdoms of Glory works. :) We're hoping
that we can invite Zach to be baptized next week. :) SUPER EXCITING!!!!!!
Anyways, that's it for now. This week was good, and
like I said, there's more good stuff to come. :)
I love y'all! Keep up your faith! :)
Love,
Sister Empey
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Remembering good times with Sister Stevens... :) |
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