Um..... the beginning of this week started FOREVER
ago!!!! It's been an interesting week too.....
So! To start off, Monday evening. We had dinner
with Bishop Ashcraft, WHO JUST HAPPENS TO HAVE LIVED IN SPRINGVILLE AND KNOWS
GRANDPA EDGEL!!!!! O_O (by the ways Grandma, Darren Ashcraft says hello
to Grandpa.) Anyways, it was great. :) He also knows John Call, and
we just had all sorts of fun Springville talk, I think to the dismay of the
rest of his family. haha
After dinner, we went to the Lees, some potential
investigators. We ended up having an amazing conversation with
them. They're both strong Christian people, and love their Asian heritage
(Ron is Chinese and Heather is Korean). Ron even kept bringing up points
that I was all like "YEAH! The church totally believes that!!!"
But the sad thing is that at the end, when we offered the lessons, they
declined. :( Oh well. What happens happens.
On Tuesday, we worked in the Sunnyridge Apartments....
pretty much all day. We went and contacted the Hoagland family.
Brother Hoagland is trying to become active again, and wants his son, who is
turning 9, to be baptized. So we went over to meet Keenan and asked him
if he wanted to be baptized. When he said yes, we nearly leaped for joy
and asked why, and his response was "to get people off my back."
... well, leave it to an 8-year old to give you the truth,
right?
Anyways, the Bishop has asked us to give the lessons to the
Hoaglands, so we taught them the first discussion. Kennan didn't soften
up to us at all until we were towards the end of the lesson when we started to
talk about Joseph Smith. We were talking about Joseph Smith, and I felt
prompted to have Kyle, who is 13, read James 1:5, and we talked about what that
scripture meant. I think that helped a little bit, because while he still
didn't say a whole lot, he stopped making dissatisfied grunts to all of our
questions. Cute kid. He just needs some softening.
On Wednesday, we went over to teach a young woman in our
ward, Gillian. She's autistic, and so her mom thought it might be good if
she had the lessons to help strengthen her testimony. The lesson was
going along great--until she asked when the Holy Ghost was going to get his
body. Then it got a little crazy as her mom dived into some deep doctrine
and we were like "uh...... we dunno....." it was a good laugh
for later.
On Thursday, we met a part member family, the Niles.
HOLY COW, SO AWKWARD!!! They're this super sweet and friendly
couple. The only thing is that Sister Niles (the non-member) insists that
she call us by our fist names! ACK!!! Doesn't she realize that
having people outside of our family call us by our first names is like hearing
a swear word and makes our ears bleed?!?! Man, I think I was flinching
the whole time I was there. And then they only muted the television, and
Doc Martin, a favorite show of mine, comes on the TV! I was like
"I'M DYING INSIDE!!!" Thankfully, at that point, Sister Niles
took us for a tour through the house, so I tried to ask as many questions as
possible to keep our 2-room house tour as long as possible. haha
Anyways, we asked Sister Niles if she would like to take the lessons, and
she flat-out didn't give us an answer. She was just like "Oh, silly
missionaries are asking me again!" And we were like "Um.... is
that a no?..." Again, sort of a humerous visit. We'll visit
again. And we'll ask for the TV to be turned OFF this time, because I
have a feeling that there will be no house tour next time.
Friday and Saturday were spent contacting, but there wasn't
much success sadly. :( Oh well.
On Sunday, we had a lesson with a less-active family named
the Fries, with the Titus's. On the way over, Brother Titus told us that
The Elders had taught them the 10 commandments the first time, and The Plan of
Salvation was taught by the Titus's the second time because the Elders couldn't
make it.
O_O Wai... what?!
I was in total shock! I was like "Who does the 10
commandments as a first lesson?!" So, instead of teaching Lesson 3
as planned, we switched and decided to teach Lesson 1 with a lot of
prayer.
It went really well though. It was a good discussion
with both the parents and their kid, David. The Spirit was really strong
there, even though our conversation got de-railed a couple of times. We
were always able to pull it back on track and end the lesson after an hour
fifteen! It was great. :)
Well, that's it for now. I love y'all, and I hope
you've had as great as a week as we had. :)
Love,
Sister Empey
Yes, we have an ALMA
ln. in our area! Pretty awesome, yeah? :)
Saw this while
walking around on..... Thursday. I think. Made my day.
MAY
THE 4TH BE WITH YOU!!!!
Love you. :)
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