Week 13 - Finally! Another P-day!

July 16, 2009

Hi!
You know I love the work and sharing the gospel with others, but a week and a half without a P-day can get pretty rough! haha. But it's here and I finally get to get things done!!! Well I just wanted to tell you something pretty exciting. You know how rough it has been in this area trying to get the work moving along. My goal at the beginning of this transfer was to be able to go from one appointment to another to another all day long. Well....guess what? In the last week and a half, we've been able to do that 3 TIMES! :) It's been the best thing ever! So, the work really is picking up. Thanks for the prayers you've had for us! We are working with some really cool people now too! One girl we are working with is named Amanda. I may have told you a little about her in my last email but she is engaged to a member in our ward. We have had 2 FHE's with them and the family gets really involved with our lessons! It's so fun and I really love them because they all remind me so much of you guys! They are my family away from home right now! haha. They have a 10 year old daughter that reminds me so much of Natalie too! She's so cute! Amanda has a lot of potential too! She's pretty quiet and her family is very anti, but she tells us she wants to learn more. We are going to have an appt this week with just her and her fiancee.....not the whole family. So I think she'll really open up to us.
We also WANT to start working with a man in our ward. His name is Brother Holmes and basically he is a "dry" member. His wife is a member so he comes to church every week and he gets very involved in the lessons. According to the bishopbric though, his wife is what is holding him back. She pushes him so much into church and becoming a member that I think he gets turned off by it. So we want to just start becoming his friend, let him trust us and hopefully he'll let us teach him. He already knows a lot about the doctrine (not just the principles) so I think it's just on his time when he'll get baptized. The bishopbric says he is so, so close though!
Well, I don't think we'd be able to work with so many wonderful people if it weren't for the ward here! We do this program called a Set-A-Date where we visit with the members and share missionary experiences and basically it is to get them to do missionary work. We aren't looking for referrels or anything, just for the members to get out and share the gospel too. Every person we do it with is so amazing! It's really a missionary minded ward and they do all they can to get people interested! Sooooo......I hope you are doing your missionary work too! :) I really know (and have definitely seen this transfer) how powerful members are in sharing the gospel. It's like that one story I think someone shared in conference one time of the sheep that was stuck on a cliff. Rescue workers came to help the sheep get down but it wouldn't let them save it. Until the shepard came and the sheep heard his voice would it come down. Just like missionary work, we try to come and meet people, but we are just random strangers who they aren't really going to listen to. Its the people they know and are close with that will in a sense "rescue" them. So family, share the gospel with people you know! You don't even have to do big things, just small things like giving them a church DVD, inviting them to a ward activity, sharing some things we believe with them (family proclamation), or the big things like giving a Book of Mormon to them, inviting them to church, etc. Whatever the spirit tells you :) I expect an update of what you did next week! haha jk. But you should seriously do it!
There's my plug for the week. Thank you for being such a great family! And thanks for all your prayers! I sure do love all of you! Have an amazing week! Stay happy.
Love, Holly