Week 35- no subject

December 14, 2009

Hi Everyone! :)
Thank you for all the birthday packages and birthday emails! I loved it! I think Sis. Ferguson was getting a little jealous because I was getting a package almost everyday for 4 days! haha And letters in the mail. I've been pretty spoiled with the mail lately, so thank you!!! If you want, you can keep bringing it! :) My birthday was very good! I couldn't have asked for a better birthday on the mission. It started out with Sis. Ferguson making me a pancake breakfast and then at district meeting the district leader made a cake! It was a banana spice cake, and it was the first one he has ever made! And surprisingly, it was way good. We also went out to Applebee's for lunch. They are such a good district, probably one of my favorites! Then that night, we had a Relief Society Progressive Dinner. No one knew it was my birthday, but by the end they caught wind and everyone sang happy birthday. I thought it would stay underwrap, but one of our less-actives we are working with came and she brought me a little present (mary kay items!) so that's how it got out. But it was a fun way to spend my birthday. We had an investigator come, a couple less-actives, and tons of members to spend the evening with.
Now as for the work, we had an amazing experience. Sister Ferguson and I had been reallly really worried about Greg. He had gotten pretty sick and we hadn't been able to contact him for over 2 weeks. We tried calling and stopping by, leaving messages, but nothing! At interviews, President Summerhays told us to back off for a couple weeks and wait til he calls us. You can probably imagine I didn't like that advice! haha, especially since his baptism is set for the 19th. But he's my mission president, so I decided that I would listen and exercise a little faith. We would pray our guts out that Greg would contact us. Then, this past Friday, he DID call us!!!!!! Finally, oh my goodness I was SO happy! He asked us to come over that night to see him. Luckily our other appointment fell through so we could. He told us that on top of being sick, he got antied by a LOT of people. He really felt like he was being picked on for the decisions he was making. But, he is a lot stronger then that. He decided that he likes the feeling of being at church and learning from us a lot better then the feelings he gets when he is with these other people. So he wants to continue moving forward to his baptism and to be surrounded by church people! I am so thankful for him!!! And so thankful for Heavenly Father working with him to overcome all the adversity he has had. And that he chose to follow the spirit! We are pushing his baptism back a little bit, but he's still all for it! :)
We also are working with an over-aged youth. Her name is Kyleigh and she is such a cute girl! She was actually baptized when she was 8 but somehow her records got lost and they have no way of proving the date she was originally baptized. So the bishop wants us to teach her again and baptize her. She comes from a less-active family who is starting to come back, so this should be really good for them! We are hoping that through this, we can help the family get to the temple to get sealed too! I love this family (the Walmer's) and can't wait for their progression.
I hope everyone has such a great week! Good luck with everything going on and a good holiday season!!!!!
I GET TO TALK TO YOU IN JUST A WEEK AND A HALF! I can't wait! :) Love you and miss you all. Merry Christmas!
Love, Holly