Week 17- hi again

August 13th, 2009

Hi again!
It has been quite the week, yet again! Never a dull moment on a mission. Well first let me tell you of the hard stuff before it gets to the good stuff because it all correlates together. Last week was a pretty rough week. On top of Sister Deal being pretty sick we had 12 appointment cancellations and one of our most favorite investigator couples dropping themselves. :( They have so much potential, I always said that the wife looked like she could be a relief society president or something. haha. But I know, I know, it doesn't mean we didn't plant a seed and touch their lives somehow. They'll get baptized sometime down the road. Then on Monday, we had a zone conference. We thought we were going into that with such high hopes to be spiritually lifted and to "fill our empty reservoir". But it ended up being more of a scolding to those disobedient missionaries and also how bad we've all been about our tracting and street contacting. So that just put us down even more, especially feeling terrible because Sis. Deal is always sick and we try to do the best we can. But we felt like we just weren't good enough. Well we were both feeling pretty doom and gloom until this week. We have an investigator, Ronald, who we've been meeting with for about a month or so now. I don't remember if I've told you much about him but he was a media referrel for a DVD and has let us come over each week to meet with him since. We have great discussions with him, he always has a lot of questions, and he recognizes that the Lord has sent us to him :) Well as I was teaching a principle of a lesson, Sis. Deal kept being prompted on finding a date to set him to baptism with. So she asked him if he'd prepare to be baptized on September 5th and these were his words...."You know, the Lord is really amazing. My wife leaves out of town for two weeks on September 4th, so yes I will prepare!" (his wife has no interest at all and gives him a hard time about meeting with us) but YAY!!! He is amazing, throughout the rest of the time there he kept saying "I'll keep preparing for Sept. 5th!" Wow. Satan always works his hardest before something really good happens! So I'll keep you updated on his progress towards baptism :)
Right after his appointment, we went to another appointment with an investigator named Margie. It was only our second visit and we taught the plan of salvation and she absolutely loved it all! She really liked how it was layed out for us! We also invited her to baptism.....of course when she knew it was true. She said yes she would, but wasn't ready to set a date yet. So two pretty amazing things in a row! That is seriously what we've been needing! So please keep praying for our investigators and for us!!! :)
One more prettty funny thing.....this is classic mormon stereotype! So our bishops son and our relief society presidents daughter are engaged!!!!!!! hahaha, isn't that classic??? And more.....they started dating on July 4th and got engaged on August 4th and are getting married in December. Soooooo mormon!!! haha I love it!!!
Well that's about all the excitement and drama for the week. Hope all is well for all of you. I love you and miss you! Keep me updated on everything! Love ya!
Love, Holly