Week 28- Crazy and Busy!

October 29, 2009

Hello again!
Thanks for all the emails this week! I love getting lots :) It makes me feel loved! haha. Well let me jump right in to what we've been up to this past week. Which is a lot! Like I told you last week, we took over the elders area that we shared a ward with. So now our area is huge!!! We practically spend most of our time in their area now.....maybe we should move our apartment over there? No, not really. I like ours too much. Anyway, we've still been trying to contact all the people the elders had been working with. We're still working on it. They did a lot of less-active work, so we are really trying to contact everyone! We had a pretty cool experience yesterday. Actually, on Tuesday we tried to stop by a referrel that the elders had gotten but hadn't contacted yet. So we stopped by and she wasn't home, but her ex-husband was there. We talked to him for a while, shared the restoration with him and he totally accepted a Book of Mormon. He even said he felt something special as he was looking at a picture of the first vision. Pretty cool huh? Unfortunately he's going to jail soon (woops), so we couldn't get a return appointment with him. But we DID contact this girl yesterday! She is so awesome! She was actually referred by her mom who just recently got baptized a couple months ago. As we were talking to her (her name is Alicia) she was telling us what a change her mom has made since she joined the church. She said it was a complete 180 degrees and she really likes the change she sees! So she is really interested in learning more. We are going to see her again next week! I'm so excited about it! Plus she her mom can motivate, encourage, and excite her too as she continues learning! YAY! Plus, I don't remember if I told you before, but Amanda, who I was teaching over in Dover, is getting baptized!!!!!! :) :) :) I'm so excited for her! I wish I could go! She's one of my favorite people so far! Now...as for Greg, he's still doing really great too! We visited him on Monday and he only did one puff of cigarette in two days! He's doing so well! Keep praying for him that he'll have the faith and the strength to quit all together! We're seeing him again this evening, so let week I'll let you know how he's still coming along. Oh and mom, thank you so so so so so much for the package!!!!!!!! It was such a fun surprise and soooooo cute!!! I'm wearing the cute aqua sweater with the satin bow right now :) I love it, thank you! Will someone also do me a favor? Will you get me Angela, Josie, Sabra, and Katelyn's addresses for me please? I want to write them, but have no idea what their addresses are. Thank you! Hope you all have such a great week. I love you all tons and miss you tons and tons too! Bye
Love, Holly