I have some news for everyone....
I am a mom! A missionary mom that is. I am training a new missionary. Her name is Sister Tillman. President Cotterell called to inform me that I would be training a new missionary on Saturday. Sister Wilson and I both cried. I think we were having way too much fun together. Sister Tillman is amazing. To describe Sister Tillman in a nutshell: She is from Corinne, UT and she worked on a dairy farm. Her job was to milk the cows and 4 am and 4 pm everyday. She graduated from Box Elder High in '09. She likes to play the piano, her favorite color is pink and her birthday is Feb. 9th. Both her parentals served missions and her brother is currently serving a mission in Guatemala.
This past week was really good though. We met with a lot of less active members and part member families. Bishop gave us a couple of less active sisters to go by this week. We stopped by and had a good lesson with them. One of them is really interested in coming back to church. She asked about a singles ward and agreed to read the Book of Mormon everyday. She works every other sunday though. :( However, she will be at church this sunday! :)
We met with Sister Jan on Tuesday. She is still praying about a baptism date. We finished teaching her the Plan of Salvation again. She just soaks it up.
Wednesday was our last district meeting of the transfer. It was Elder Merrill's last district meeting ever. (He is a dying missionary...aka: he is going home next week). It was sad. We talked about receiving revleation through the Book of Mormon and role played that. It was so good! On our way home from district meeting we stopped by a few members who live in Linden (since we never get to go to Linden much because it is out in the boonies). We talked to the Prescott family. Sister Prescott's daughter was there and talked about how she would like to come back to church. Her husband is not a member. We are hoping we can work with them in the near future. We also stopped by a family who lived at the end of a really really long dirt road. When we finally got there, we discovered there was no entrance into their house because it was an electric fence and had like 10 dogs. It was pretty intense to say the least. We spent probably 20 minutes trying to figure out a way to get into their yard. We finally got the dogs to bark, but I guess they got tired of barking after a while. We tried to lure them over toward us by shaking a package of tic-tacs. It kind of worked, but we eventually just gave up and left a note on their fence. We got caught in a flash flood on our way to dinner! We were just driving along and all of the sudden the wind picked up and it started raining like all get out! (I hope you enjoyed that southern talk :] ) We survived though.
Thursday we went out with the Daltons and met with a couple of less active families. Then they took us to Dairy Queen. I got some frozen hot chocolate and it brought back a lot of really good memories with my bestie. (Thanks Sister L for introducing me to DQ's frozen hot chocolate. mmmm!)
Friday we met with Jan again. She wants to be baptized, but wants to make sure that the date we invited her to be baptized on is going to be the right day. She has been praying a lot about it. We are praying for her too. We met with a lady in Spring Lake (also in the boonnies). I felt bad for the poor lady. She is very lost. She invited us to come back. I hope that she will start coming back to church. We went out with the Guymons in the evening and contacted a part member family. The daughter is really interested in coming to church! yay!
We went to dinner with Bruce and Margaret on Saturday because we found out Sister Wilson would be leaving. We went to Cracker Barrel and had breakfast for dinner. :) I got an apple bran muffin and it was amazing.
Sunday was great! All four of our investigators came to church! Lewis showed up all on his own. We tried asking him if he needed a ride or anything for church, but he never answered our phone calls. And then, we come to church and he was there! It was really good.
We went out on exchanges with Sis. Knight and Bro. Hill in the evening and visited the Brunson family and then had a lesson with Lewis.
Things are going good in Dunn. That's for sure. Thank you for your prayers and outpouring of love. It is greatly appreciated. I love you all and want you to know that I know that the Book of Mormon is true. There really is no way that it couldn't be. I am glad my testimony is rooted so deeply in the Book of Mormon. It has made all the difference in my life and I know it can in your life too! I have witnessed that first hand.
I love you all!
Love,
Sister J
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