Week 16- What up!?!

August 6, 2009

Hey!
So this may be a little bit of a short email with a lot of information in it! The elders have been waiting for us to be done so I'm going to try to be fast! First a couple fun stories. First....last P-day, we were all at the church doing emails and the elders would NOT be in the same room as us. Weird. So when we were done, we went to go tell them we were done and they could use it now and they were all playing volleyball....without us! So Sister Deal kind of freaked out since we've been feeling left out about a lot of things lately. She was like " you know, you should invite us to do things sometimes!! We've been feeling like outcasts! It's hard being a girl!!!" It was really funny. So they are waiting for US now to go play tennis.
Other funny story, we had our first district meeting on monday with our new district...in which the Harrisburg and Pittsburgh missionaires are all mixed up now. So we had to start combining ways of doing things and it was soo funny. We usually would kneel down to pray and so when half of us went down, everyone else was like "oh, I guess we are kneeling". After prayer, we usually recite D&C 4 and Our Purpose all together so it was all awkward when we wanted to start that. Anyway, it was pretty funny.
Two more stories I want to tell you about people we are teaching. One named Vinny. This was our second time teaching him and we taught the plan of salvation. The subject of baptism was coming up so much so Sis. Deal went with the flow and invited him to be baptized....once he knew it was true. He said he would...but then went on to say, "do I really need to keep meeting with you or can I just talk to you on sundays?" hahaha. We told him whatever he'd like, but we'll get him to meet with us again.
We also visited with a less-active member who has been lost from the records for a long time. Cati...her mom told us about her so we stopped by and she was SOO SWEEET! We just visited with her and got to know her. Asked her if she remembered her baptism very well and she said she didn't because she was about 9 or 10 but she did remember the day she got sealed to her parents. It was so sweet, she started crying and we talked more about the temple. After our prayer we gave her a hug and she just started crying more and said "I'm so glad someone finally came." It's like she's just been waiting for someone to come from the church, but didn't know how to get us or find us. She did say she would go to church this week too. YAY!
Anyway, sorry this is written so quickly. I hope it makes sense. But I should get going. I love all of you and miss you SOOOO MUCH!!! :) Have a great week!
Love, Holly