Week 19 - short

August 27, 2009

his will be a short email. Sad news first then good news. Sad news is that our investigator, Ron, who we set for baptism at the beginning of September dropped himself. :( He said he was going to be on the East Coast for a while and had to cancel our appointments. His wife has been giving him a lot of grief lately, so I hope that everything is ok for him! Good news now. Last sunday in church, one of the members ran up to Sister Deal and told her that she had someone for us to teach on Tuesday. So when we went to our appointment, this kid that they had for us, Cody, is absolutely golden! He's been taught by missionaries before and was almost close to baptism but a lot of things happened and he backed out or lost contact. But he works with one of the girls in our ward (Becky) and they became friends. She gave him a Book of Mormon and within a week of him having it, he's already up to Mosiah! Amazing right? He also went to the Washington DC temple grounds with Becky and said he felt so completely different on the grounds....in such a good way he's never felt before. So he is great! We just reviewed the restoration with him, got to know where he is coming from a lot and actually set him to baptism for Sept 26th. I never thought we'd be able to teach someone this amazing!
We got to see a less active family, the Meachers, at church on Sunday who hasn't been to church in a couple years. Actually, we stopped trying to visit them because we were never able to get in, except once. Then randomly on Sunday morning, we got a call from Sister Meacher saying she needed the address of the church because they wanted to go to sacrament. That was such a shock....but a good shock! And she is also feeding us dinner tonight. She really is such a sweet woman.
There is the highlights for this week. Transfers are coming up on Sept. 8 so if you're going to write to me....write to the mission office address. Or you can just wait until after transfers when I give you my new address. President hinted in interviews that he was going to transfer me to a new area. So that's what I'm planning on, but he's also been known to change his mind last minute. So we'll see. But atleast write me emails next week please!!!!!!! I'm tired of not having any mail or emails!!!
Love, Holly