"Ole
ole, ole ole..... I'm feelin’ hot, hot, hot" and here comes the
summer!
Some
fun details about this week:
-We have a new investigator!! His name is Isaiah, and we taught the full
Restoration, prayed, and set up a return appt. on his doorstep! He's a junior
in high school looking for enlightenment, and we are meeting with him (and
hopefully his mom) tomorrow! It’s been a long hard week knocking, but he really
is a miracle to have found!
-Church was AWESOME, Juan made it on his own! He is our deaf investigator that
has to ride the bus and doesn’t know sign language very well. We were
biting our nails ‘til 3 minutes before! Also, the elders recent convert
Angelina (whose been having a hard time coming cuz of her job... sketchy job)
came to church and so did Marisa (who was baptized last week) with her son
Isaiah. Her son made her wake up at 6:30am and made us banana bread cupcakes,
and she is freezing some jambalaya for us, since they can’t feed us. This is
the same woman who cooks everything in the microwave cuz she can’t afford to
pay for her gas... Wow, very humbling.
-Taught the law of chastity and tithing to Juan.... hahaha, uhhhhh (play it
cool Sis McNeill). Not fun trying to act out, but he got the message! With the concept of
tithing, we’re going to try to teach him again, and we had a new idea to use a
calculator, so that is going down tomorrow… pray for us.
-This Sunday we signed a song called "Keeper of the Flame" while
Brittany Ball sang/played piano. Super cool, it’s a whole new way of feeling
the spirit.
-Visited with a gay ex-communicated member. He is doing so good, and he actually
said he might come to church to see our baptism with Juan in 3 weeks!! With
him, I’ve never felt so much godly sorrow, seeing how much knowledge and
testimony he has, yet still turning away from it all. But, regardless of what
everything and everyone seems to point to, Sister Cox and I REFUSE to give up
hope. We know the spirit has touched much darker souls, and he is such an
amazing person!!! So maybe it will start with this baptism. He WILL be able to
come to our weddings.
-Met a woman named Brenda…Sooo kind! Just radiated and praised us for being
willing to serve random strangers. She is very caring toward us. She's
"not interested...." yet, but her daughters want to learn sign
language, and she's practically begging to feed us dinner, so that was a very nice
pick-me-up and we'll see how it goes from there.
-Pass along cards actually work! We have someone named Peter who wants to know
more about the Book of Mormon, but won’t meet us cuz of his parents. So, we are
teaching him through texts!!!! I’ll keep you updated on that one.
Spiritual
summary of the week - it is easier to stuff a camel through a needle than for a
rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven. Hence we are on the search for the
poor in spirit.
-Love
to you all!
Sister
McNeill
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