July 23, 2012

Greetings from Dunn!

 

 

Another week has come and gone. It was definitely one of those "character building" weeks. However, it ended up being a really good week with many miracles.

 

Last monday we went shopping. Sis. Welch got lost in the store so we had to go to the front and page her. She didn't know she was lost, but Sis. Tillman and I were about to hyperventilate because we had lost one of us! She had been looking a clothes rack that went above her head and we couldn't see her. It ended up being okay in the end...thank heavens.

Our appointment with Lewis fell through so we went to contact a referral out in Benson. His name is Michael. He was a referral from a member in the ward and is really interested in learning more. We were able to set up a return appointment and it was a good day!

 

Tuesday we had a grrreat lesson with Jan. She asked us before we had even said anything about it if she could get her house blessed. I didn't even know they blessed inadimate objects until a few years ago. It was really neat. She said she just thought of it in passing and decided to ask us about it. We also talked about patriarchal blessings so she is preparing to receive one in the near future. She is so good. I love her a lot.

Afterwards we had a lesson with the Little family (a part member family). Sis. Little got really upset during the lesson and booted us out of her house and told us never to come back. It was rather discouraging. I was mostly just irritated. Poor Sis. Tillman was pretty torn up about it though. It was a rough day to say the least. Luckily we were able to go and do some service in the evening for a lady named Ellen. We read some from the Book of Mormon with her and sang "How Great Thou Art." I got a death glare from Sis. Tillman for volunteering us to sing. Oops! At least the spirit was there though. :)

 

We had a REALLY good district meeting on wednesday in which Sis. Welch received some great inspiration on how to apply the how to begin teaching bullet points to members. (they are in PMG in the teaching skills chapter...pg 184 I think). Anyways, she had this brilliant idea that we should change the bullet points into questions that we could use to ask members. It works SO well. It was amazing. We had a lesson with the Hudsons that evening. They are still plunking along. We talked about true conversion and read Alma 24. That is a great example of true conversion.

 

We had an appointment with Freddy on Thursday. He didn't come. :( Mona (his member friend) told us he still trying to sort through everything with the lady who told him a bunch of negative things about the church. (sigh). He went to Raleigh for the weekend too so he didn't come to church.

 

We finished up our service project for the Swafford family. We painted away and it was great! We had a lesson with a potential investigator that Sis. Wilson and I actually found via the area book. She is really interested! It was great! We had dinner with less active, Sis. Fredell. It was like thanksgiving. Yum.

 

Saturday was crazy busy! We had our lesson with Michael that we met on Monday. His wife also came. That was such a good lesson. We taught so unified-ly and they asked us about any "rules" our church has. We told them there are certain commandments that we live by. (we knew they had a pretty serious word of wisdom issue at this point). Then, Michael says, "So, is tobacco a sin?" I think all of us were scared stiff about what would happen if we said "yes", but we did. We were pleasantly suprised when Cheryl (Michael's wife) spoke up and said, "well, I guess you'll have to start praying for us that we can quite smoking." I was thrilled!

We had dinner with the Giddens (a less active family). They are hilarious. Bro. Giddens is a pretty recent convert of about 7 months. He is funny. He told us this funny story about how he tried to make salsa and instead of putting 1/2 tsp of salt in, he put 1/2 a cup. hahaha...so funny.

 

Sunday the Hudsons came to church, but no one else. We drove in a complete loop of our boundaries. We were supposed to meet with a lady named Yolanda but she cancelled so we drove up to Fuquay to contact a a referral, but they weren't home so we went home and studied. We ended the day with ham and cheese sandwiches for dinner. It was a good sunday.

 

I love you all. Have a wonderful blessed week.

 

Love,

 

Sister Johnson