Week 20 - last week of transfer #3

September 3, 2009

Hi everyone,
My mind is so scattered about this past week, I don't remember a lot of what has happened. But I'll try to recall all the great things that have happened.
Last week, we got a call from a less-active member saying that she hasn't had missionaries come over in a long time and that she would like us to come visit her and her family. I guess missionaries used to go visit her at the end of last year, but according to the teaching record, they were really hard to get a hold of. So we went and visited her and her kids. She has a nonmember husband and 3 kids who aren't members either but she wants them to start getting involved in Young Men and Young Women activities. Yay, good for them! There is one little tricky part though......we found out on Sunday that the ward boundaries were redone. So the area that they live in is going to be moved into another ward. Sad huh? We have a lot of great members who are leaving our ward, but good thing the church is the same everywhere in the world. And the elders in that ward better take good care of this less-active family! haha, they better make sure that they get to church! :)
On Monday, we had another pretty cool experience at a less-active members home. Sister Gholson and her 2 kids come to sacrament meeting every now and then. Her husband is a truck driver and is gone a lot! When he is gone, she is pretty faithful in coming, but when he's there, she doesn't come to church. Anyway, back to the point of the story, when her husband, Dave, is home and we come to visit, he usually just leaves the room and says he doesn't do that "church" thing. He's a very nice guy and likes us a lot but just doesn't like to sit in. Well on Monday, we were teaching and he came home and just sat down with us! Wow, we didn't quite know how to take it. He told us to go on with our lesson and then he started asking a lot of questions. Then we of course invited everyone to church and Sister Gholson started to make some excuses and Dave said, "No, you will be going to church this week! In fact, we will ALL be going to church this week!" hahahaha, so he invited himself to go to church! :) He went from not doing the "church" thing, to inviting himself to go. It was pretty cool. Hopefully he sticks with his word and comes! We'd love to see him there!
All else is going pretty well. Cody is still hangin in there and still is set with his baptismal date! He came to church last sunday and really liked it! Oh, and his friend that he works with who is a member of our ward......they are now dating. How cute! Well, I hope everything is great for all of you! Miss you and love you lots and lots! Have a good week!
Love, Holly