My dearest family and friends.
Considering Valentine's Day is this week, I have a
confession. I'm in love. With Hartwell, GA :)
Once again the week has flown by!! I can't even
believe how quickly the time has gone. Transfers are
NEXT WEEK. What?! I just got here!! Sister Tanner and
I think that we'll both stay because she got here mid
way through last transfer, so we're both pretty new to
the area. *crosses fingers* We dunno though. I'll let
you know when I find out next week :)
Our investigator, K., is doing well... we think. We had
2 appts set up for this last week, but they both fell
through because she has had lots of doctor's
appointments. Sooo... more on that next week! :)
We taught also taught another investigator, a guy named J.
this week!! We met him my first day with Sis Tanner, but
we couldn't go back because we're girls, haha. So we
finally got our team-up to come out with us and that was a
really good lesson!! A few minutes after we started
teaching his nephew and his friend came over. So we taught
them too! J. and his nephew were super receptive aaaaand
their friend thinks we're a cult. So that made the lesson
very interesting. But the member who came with was so
good! She got baptized about 6 months ago and is probably
one of the most solid recent converts I've ever met. After
the friend shared his interesting opinion, J. completely
disregarded it and said to us, "I can learn from you and
your book, and you can learn from me! I'm always open to
learning more" *phew!* Tender mercy, indeed :)
Aaaaand then there's a girl named, M.!! We tracted into her
on Tuesday. She's a 15-yr-old who is just adorable. Her mom
answered the door, but then had her daughter, M. talk to us
because her mom is deaf (...still trying to figure out how
she heard the door...) AAAanyway. They're currently going to
another church in South Carolina because they accommodate
deaf people there, but M. doesn't really believe the things
they teach. So we set up an appt and taught the restoration
by watching the Restoration DVD with ASL. I love the
Spirit!!! We asked her how she felt afterwards and she just
said, "Wow. That was so good. I can't describe how good that
movie was. And I just feel so good!" We challenged her to
read from the Book of Mormon and the next day she told us
how much she loved 3 Nephi 11 and how good and happy it made
her feel. Go Spirit! :) We're really excited about that.
We're in the process of trying to find an ASL interpreter
for church and some lessons... which is rather difficult in
a branch of 30 active members, haha. But! We have faith! :)
Something that really stuck out to me this week was while we
were tracting. We referred a man to
to look up an old
acquaintance and he said, "I knew a him many, many years ago.
I don't even remember the guy's name, just his life." May we
all live lives like that.
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