Dec 5, 2011

Hello everybody! I hope you had a splendid week. Mine was pretty good. Not
much to complain about really. We had a few canceled appointments, and some
setbacks with a few of our investigators, but we also had some pretty good
success too. We were able to pick up three new investigators this last weekend,
which was way fun. It started on Friday with some service. The elders have
been doing service for a woman named Denise for months. We finally asked her on
friday how she met the church and what she knew about it. She opened up and
told us how much she loves the church and how much she likes what we teach. She
said that she'd even attended sacrament meeting a few times. So we asked her if
she'd ever met with missionaries before. When she said no, we asked her if
she'd like to meet with us and she got really excited about that. So we have an
appointment with her on Wednesday. We're really excited to see where this one
goes. :)
We also met with a part member recent convert family. The whole family
were all baptized a few months ago except the 15 year old daughter, Stormy. She
wasn't living with the family at the time. So we invited her to take the
lessons and she is really prepared and ready. She came to church yesterday and
really liked it. So things should progress pretty quickly with Stormy.
We also picked up an older man named Rick. His wife is an active member,
and Rick attends church with her fairly regularly. He knows that he needs to be
baptized, he just has been ready to make the commitment yet. But when he called
us and asked us for an appointment, we got pretty excited. At the actual
lesson, we talked a lot about faith and prayer. Rick had a pretty major stroke
about a year ago, so communicating with him is kind of hard. About 25% of the
words that he says, mostly nouns and verbs, are complete gibberish. But it
makes the lessons interesting. :)
That's pretty much it for the news of this week. Except that on Friday, in
the mail, I received my trunky papers... It's a packet of information about
going home, which is why it's called trunky papers, because they make you
trunky. There's lots of questions about goals and what your plans are after the
mission, that you're supposed to fill out and bring with you to your final
interview with the president. And it included my plane ticket. Yikes. My
mission is almost over! So crazy!
Anyway. That's about it for me. I can't wait till next week so I can hear
from all of you! Love you!!
~Sister Reid