"We Dressed Up As Eachother!"

November 5, 2012

Things are going good. Here are the events.

We had a lesson with Jill this week and soft set her for baptism. She said that she hopes it is true and she wants to be baptized but she is going to wait for her son to get home. IN 2 YEARS! NO WAY! That is wayyyyyyyyyyyyy tooooooooooooooooooo long to wait for her to get all the blessings that come with it. But the Dutsons told us, dont worry, as she learns about this more and more, she will want it sooner and Ricardo will just be able to go with her in the temple for the first time. I think that sounds amazing. So we are working on that! 

Halloween was awesome! It is a churchwide thing that says that we need to be in one of 3 places on halloween night. 1. At a ward party 2. At a mission party or 3. At home. Since the ward party was going to be filled with non-members we decided to go to the ward party for finding opportunities. So what we did is we had a trunk at the Trunk or treat chilli cookoff party and set it up awesomely!!!! With help from the members of course. :] Also we got bunches of candy and attached pass-along cards (with our phone # on it) to half the candy. Also we handed out some "Finding faith in Christ" DVDs and talked to a bunch of people!!!! It was awesome! We couldnt dress up obviously so we did all we could and dressed up as eachother! hahahahahahaha it was really fun! We had a fun time with it. I wore a cute button up shirt and a black skirt because that is what sister monson likes to wear and also I made my hair wavy and wore some of her old glasses and we popped the lenses out of them! hahaha. Then for sister monson I straightened her hair and put it in a pony and then she wore some of my stuff. Plus we found a super cute colorful skirt that fits her in the apartment so she wore that :]. And of course we switched nametags hahaha. It was fun!

This week we took Kelsie to the Family history center at the temple and she LOVES family history! We hope to be able to go with her this week to do baptisms for the dead!

This week we taught summer's dad. We planned a family home evening with summer, her less active stepmom, and her non member brother and father but they all forgot we were coming. So we sat and talked to Summer and Janelle for a while and then Summer's dad came in. We talked about the blessings of the gospel that have come into their lives The spirit was there. But he said that he didnt feel like it was his time yet. His faith in Jesus Christ has led him to this point in his life. We could tell because he opened up to us and told us all these amazing wonderful things. I know that he will join the church someday but it has to be on his own time. We have high hopes for Summer and her family...Agency is the key. 

The other night we had a appointment with a recent convert family. We went at the appointed time and knocked on the door. It took a solid few minutes for someone to come to the door. When we walked in, I knew something had happened. When we sat down they told us that some of their family members on the east coast were murdered that day. OH MAN HOW TERRIBLE. We were silent because it was still fresh but we solemnly bore our testimony about the plan of salvation and how all of us can be together again. She said, thank you for coming, we needed that. Now I know the exact reason why we made the appointment for today. Then they asked for blessings and were were able to get some of the priesthood over to do that. WONDERFUL BLESSINGS were bestowed upon them.

This week we had a health fair in the stake. We were asked if we wanted to set up a booth and we said OF COURSE! So we set up a "spiritual health" booth among all the other booths. :] It was awesome! We had some really good contacts from it! Gave away lots of materials. It was cool with this one lady though, Sister Dutson was at her booth and the lady was talking to her about how her brothers had died. Sister Dutson took us over to her and we talked to her for a second and gave her stuff about Christ and the Plan of Salvation. She came out of her booth and gave us both huge hugs! It was amazing! 

ALSO ATTENTION DADDY! We were walking one day and we ran into this guy on a big tractor. His name is Robert Foremaster. He served in your mission at the exact same time as you! He gave his info because he would LOVE to talk to you! He was a really nice guy! Give him a call! Talked to him for about 30 min on the street a couple days ago!

It was a good week! Struggling with the teaching pool but considering that we just had 6 baptisms in a row I think we do need a little hardship to help us grow more. I love you and I am so glad that everyone had a great time at halloween! Love you all and I miss you so much! See you in a few weeks! By few I mean like 9 :]

Sister Fine