This week has been crazy! And awesome!
On Tuesday,
we had our first district meeting with the Swapps, the new senior
couple. They have already visited with so many members in the ward, and
are making some good connections! I am grateful for them, allowing we
missionaries to spend more of our time finding and teaching
investigators.
Afterwards, we took our car to
Pep Boys to get the brakes repaired; they hadn't felt or sounded right,
and we wanted to be safe driving to Tallahassee. Good thing, too,
because on the phone with Elder Mangum (the car missionary), the
mechanic said the brakes were almost completely out, about to grind
metal. Yikes! Thank heavens for those handy dandy warning lights that
come on!
Afterwards we had a brief visit with
our investigator Misty Jacoby, whose husband is a member out of town for
military training right now. We talked about conference, which she said
she would have totally come to and even had plans for a babysitter-
until she realized she would be out of town. At least we know her good
heart!
Immediately following, we met up with
Sister Devine (Young Women's president) and Kennedy Toolan (a young
woman in the ward) at the Roller family's house. We had stopped by last
Sunday and set a return appointment for Tuesday
with some of the daughters that were there. The Rollers are a
part-member family; the parents and the two oldest daughters are
members, but the rest of the children (four more daughters and a toddler
son) are not. Every time I've been over there in the past, I've met the
dad and several of the daughters, who are 7, 9, 14, 15, 17, and 18.
When the four of us arrived, most of the daughters were home, but said
neither of their parents were. So Sister Devine started talking with
them about the Young Women's program, girls' camp, etc., inviting them
to Sundays and the Wednesday
night activites, and Kennedy introduced herself to them, and was a
pretty good sport about testifying to the funnness of young women's. :)
And
then- not even 10 minutes into our conversation- Sister Roller drives
up in her car and Brother Roller rides in on his motorcycle. MIRACLE!!
The entire nine members of the Roller family were there! The parents
started talking with Sister Devine, sharing their story of why they're
less active, and she listened with love. We started talking with the
daughters, especially one who didn't get baptized with the rest of her
family because of some concerns, and she and two of her sisters are
interested in taking the lessons and finding out the truth of the
restored gospel for themselves! And the mom wants us to come over during
the day to meet with her!!!
We had an awesome exchange in Tallahassee!!
On Friday,
Sister Ramadhar from Fort Walton was here in Crestview with me. We saw
Tanya, who we hadn't seen in a while, with Sister Fetters and had an
awesome lesson! We met with the Hicks and did a member finding lesson. On Sunday, Brother Hicks said he had a long conversation with his friend who is now interested in meeting with us! Many miracles!
I love you all! Happy conference!!
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