July 30, 2012

Hello, hello! How art all of you doing? I'm doing just fine. So this last week. Our 2 progressing investigators with baptismal dates are doing just wonderfully. Getting ready for their baptisms - on August 11 and well...the October one got push back to November 3...but I'm not worried about her because she practially has planned her whole baptismal service. Now, that is golden. They are both so wonderful. Just great ladies. The one who's getting baptized in November...she's from Pennsylvannia! One of our investigators dropped us. She was the one that was concerned about the plan of salvation...she said she feels more comfortable in the new church she has been going to :( I invited her to try out our church at least once...she rejected it. Sad! But the seed has been planted. One of our guy investigators, we taught him the plan of salvation and he believed it! Yea! And we were able to easily set up a return appointment, which is kind of unusal. But that was cool. But he won't come to church yet...sad. Our other investigator/part member family we are working with...well, the husband has lots of concerns and is sometimes difficult. But the wife will soon be getting Sundays off and will be able to come to church which is way good. Then hopefully all 3 of them will be able to come to church. We tracted into a really awesome potential! A 15 year old girl, who's mom is letting her explore religion and make her own choice. Awesome! We were able to have a real sit down lesson with her last week because she came down with the flu, but she did her assignment and read the restoration pamphlet. I'm excited for her! And this week we'll start teaching another teenage girl. Her grandmother is in our ward and really thinks sister missionaries will be good for her. Plus, the granddaughter has been coming to our ward and really likes the youth there. So that will be awesome! I love this ward. They are great. Been getting to know some more of the younger families which is real good. Yesterday we went out tracting and didn't look to see if any one of our ward lived on that court. I looked at the house and laughed to myself, thinking it would be funny if they were members...well they were, but we got to know them better and they fed us brownies! Actually our dinner yesterday, we had chocolate chip cookies for dessert. They were so good! We don't get chocolate chip cookies very often...or cookies in general (sad), but these were really good ones! And the husband made them himself! So yesterday when we were tracting a man asked if he could pray for us. He prayed that we would find the truth before we took our last breath of life. He believes in the trinity and thinks we are terribly wrong. So it's real transfers again! Crazy. I thought this last one really went by super quick. So...Sister Bowers, my companion of almost 2 weeks...well, that was it. She's leaving. Going up to Gridley. They have a need for spanish speakers up there and so they need her! It'll be good for her. We didn't think it'd really happen. I'm getting Sister Simons. I think I've seen her once...maybe...she's only been out 2 transfers...this will be her 3. So yep. That's all I know about her. But it'll be good. The ward will think the mission is crazy though. They just keep switching the sisters on them. At least I'm still here. So...lets see, I think about 2 weeks ago I got a crazy annoucement in the mail. Okay it wasn't really crazy...but just wait and you might understand why I said crazy. I got Taylor Larsen's wedding annoucement! They look really cute together! I'm happy for him...them... But that's not the crazy part. They got married in sacramento! That's cool! I remember Mom saying Katie's from Roseville. But that's still not the crazy part. Their reception...well, it was just on the otherside of my ward/stake boundaries. I could have gone to it! It was so close! I mean just barely, probably not even a mile away! Anyways...that was the crazy part. I couldn't believe their reception was so close...just a town away, on the way to my church building. (We attend a church building in Rocklin - which was the town the reception was in). Anyway, that was funny. But he's/they are married now! Crazy times! But awesome. It was nice of them to send me an invitation. I'll probably send them a congratulations card of some form.