Sister Hannah Empey: Contacting Successes and Fails

Um.... so.... last week. quite exciting.

We got a church media referral on Tuesday. So we decided to check it out. Since we pretty much have no one to teach at this point. So, we knock on the door, and this lady answers, probably in her early 50's or so, and we asked if she was Shawnie Hill. And she was like "No, but I'm her mother, and I'm LDS!"

O_O wait, what?

So she invited us in and told us the story (sort of): she, with her 2 kids and grandkids, moved from California up to their current home from Idaho 3 years ago. She's the only member in her family, and as soon as she got up here, she had some health issues, so she hasn't had a chance to even figure out what ward she's in and hasn't been able to transfer her records up here! So we had a good experience with her, and Joy (the lady), invited us to come back! So we didn't meet her daughter, but we found a new member for the ward! haha

Wednesday and Thursday was full of unsuccessful contacting. And then there was Friday.

Friday was..... eventful.

So, we're helping the Relief Society President in one of our wards to contact several sisters who have not received contact for several years, and one of them apparently lived in a retirement home. So we go over and knock on the door, and before she even answers the door, a man who works there walks up to us and asks us why we were here. We replied that we were looking for this lady because she was on our church records and wanted to know if she wanted visitors from members from our church. Well, as he's telling us that they don't allow religious solicitation of any kind (excuse me, were we tracting out the building?!), this lady answers the door and curtly tells us that she wants nothing to do with the church and that she's asked for her records to be removed several times, thankyouverymuch! So we bid her goodbye, and apologized to this man, trying to clarify that we weren't trying to solicit or anything, we were just trying to help the church clean up the membership records, and that we were leaving. His reply was "I don't care. I let one of you in, I have to let everyone in." We apologized (again) for our inconvenience of us coming, and started to leave. And he followed us off the property to make sure that we left!!! We couldn't turn around, because that would be rude, but we could hear his keys jingling behind us until we left the property! And as soon as we left, we turned around, to see him turning around back to the building! Holy cow, talk about awkward! haha It was great though. :)

And all was well after that, because we got a new investigator! His name is Steve, and he's a JW, but he wants to know if the Book of Mormon is true! Yay!

Well, I gotta go now. That's really it for this week. Oh, and the Fries. We had a lesson with Sister Fries about faith, and it was an AMAZING lesson. :)

Gotta go! Sister Osburn just got a call from the mission office about a special white envelope she might want! YAY!!! Sorry gotta jet. You know how antsy I was with getting my call. You can imagine Sister Osburn's excitement. Please know that I love you all!

LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!! <3

Love,

Sister Empey