Week 5

May, 18 2009

Hiiiii!!!
I just love P-days so I can get emails from you guys!!! I hate not being able to communicate with you whenever I want! haha, that's been the hardest thing for me. It's been a pretty good week though! I told you about the baptism that we have set, yay!! Her name is Joan and she's 77 years old, but she is so dedicated and committed to her baptism, it's so cool! We talked with her about the word of wisdom last week, which I kind of told you about, and she said she'd have to think about it before she made the decision to stop drinking coffee. Well on Tuesday when we went to see her, we brought her some apples and hot chocolate (cuz apples give you more energy then coffee does) and she was so tickled about it that she said she would "surely" give up coffee! :) And she hasn't had any since!! She's so cute. She's such a quiet lady that sometimes you aren't for sure what she's feeling. But with her staying dedicated like this and coming to church every week, you can see this is what she wants. We even had an experience on Saturday with her where she was being a little missionary to her sons, haha. One of them sat in on the lesson with us and said that maybe he'd come to church too but he wasn't sure if he could really make it. She piped up and said "You just don't want to COMMIT!" haha, it was so funny, she called him out! Then another son came into the room and offered us some coffee to drink (trying to be funny I think) and she was like "Don't offer them that, they don't drink coffee!!" She's so cool! Well to answer some of your questions, no the humidity hasn't set in yet, thankfully!! The weather has been so off and on, some days it's hot and you can feel slight humidity but then the next day will be rainy and cold. A lot like Idaho is :) My companion is from Seattle area and she feels like Pennsylvania is trying to be more like Washington with the way it's been raining so much. And as for all the investigators we got the other week, I think only 2 of them came through on 2nd lessons. But one of them, Andrea, pretty much read all the chapter headings from 3 Nephi to the end of the Book of Mormon and had so many questions! It was cool to see how interested she is. I think right now she's just more interested in learning how we are different from other religions, but hey it's a start. It could turn into a testimony after a while (which we are praying for). We had another cool experience with this man and his daughter this week. We met them street contacting and he's met with missionaries for like 35 years off and on. He was saying how he really hates it when the missionaries have to open up the scriptures and read, he likes it when they can recite them. So when we went to the appointment, we were really really nervous! haha, esp with me only being out 3 weeks! I don't have scriptures memorized!!! haha. But when we got there, he pretty much told us "hey i've been meeting with missionaries for so long, I know all the lessons and I have my stumbling blocks I need to get over. What I want you to do is to teach my daughter and increase her faith. She needs you" So it was pretty amazing, and nothing to worry about at all! She was sitting right there with us and was all for it. Her name is Rosie and she's 27 but has a lot of self confidence issues. So hopefully as we befriend her and get her to meet some people at church, it will be a big change for her! :) So we are pretty excited to get to meet with her some more. 
This is getting kind of long, sorry. But as for your other questions, I think there is one other elder from the Boise area. I haven't met him yet but President Pugh said (i think) that he was from Eagle. His name is Nathan Carter. But I don't remember for sure. As for dinner appointments....we have one basically every night!! And THAT'S how I'm going to get fat out here!!!!! hahaha. Sister Deal and I pretty much decided that we are going to start limiting it to 4 times a week so that'll save me for a little bit longer :) Although I do love meeting with the members. And then as for P-days, we haven't done anything way fun yet. But next week we have a fishing/BBQ day planned at a members home for memorial day and the next week our district wants to go to Intercourse, PA.....home of the Amish!!! I can't wait for that week ;)
Well anyways, it should be a good week this week. Joans baptism is this saturday, so keep praying for her!! Hope you have a good week to!! I love you!!!
Love, Holly