Hello Hello!
This week in Lacombe (Panoka, Rimbey, Clive, Tees and Bentley...) haha we had some great times! I for the first time in this area really am starting to see the members start to trust us and really see the desire to do missionary work come out! It's truely amazing how that works...
Monday we had a lesson with the girl emma that i mett at the flat iron building museum here in Lacombe. I can't remember if i told you about her... we mett her labour day when the museum was supposed to be closed and her best friend is a member that's curently in school down in lethbridge! Well we set up a lesson on that only day that worked for her and sacrificed our "day off" but it was worth it! We had two members there and mett at a coffee shop were we just got to know her religious background and talked about God is our Loving Heavenly Father and read a bit of the introduction of the Book of Mormon and then Moroni's promise! It was so awesome.... she's such a sweetheart! But of course i didn't want to really expect anything for all we knew she was just being nice! BUT today we mett with her again, this time at tim hortons, and had lunch and taught her the restoration! OMG it was the BEST restoration lesson i've ever taught it was just like a discussion with her totally into it! She's like how does God pick prophets, WHAT? there's a prophet living now.... where is he? hahaha i laughed so hard she's so funny but so sincere and just LOVED the joseph smith experience. When i asked about her book of mormon reading she had decided to read the chapter around Moroni's promise..... you just never know what part of what you share will influence and have an impact on the people you teach. Gotta love the Spirit! Well she is pre law (psychology) major and is really busy with school and working so i had a prompting to leave her with Alma 32 on faith and she's so excited to read it she said she'll let me know when she's read it! So awesome..... i love teaching the gospel there is NOTHING like it :D
Soooo that was our FIRST new investigator last week this brings the total of investigators to 3.
Wednesday we drove our to Rimbey because we have never been there and heaven forbid we get transfered we wanted to say we'd been our there so we took the over an hour drive and only one of our appointments with less active members was home so we mett with sister kirk who is elderly and restricted to her home because they did a surgery on her arm for carpel tunnel and she didn't even have it! so now she has these nasty scars all over her hand and arm, it's swollen like a balloon and she can't do anything it's so sad..... so we cut her some peppers becuase she was making bucket pickles? she was a sweet lady i'm not worried about her. well we've decided to put rimbey aside. there are no active members there and it's way too far to go we don't have the km's for it but it's just not where we need to be!
That night we decided to organize our area book and i was looking on this sheet of potentials (people that missionaries have contacted in the past but never taught) and there was a list of people with only numbers no addresses so i called the first one, lindley, who answered and said he'd like to meet and we mett with him the next night and taught him the first lesson!!! it was crazy.... you tract and tract and then you call someone up and you get an appointment! it's amazing who the lord is preparing i really hope he'll meet with us again he's living in the country and is a welder. super open to the gospel but has dyslexia so we'll have to work with him on reading the book of mormon but that's no problem!
It was great to be able to go to the Relief Society Broadcast i just balled like a baby through the whole thing... not because anything was wrong but there was just something about teaching people about the prophets and apostles and testifying of them and then to see them just and listen to their counsel was so just intense! I know they are truly men of God because.... they actually understand women! hahaha
Well nothing much else, we are just working hard and really trying to find people. i'm so excited for conference this weekend!!!! I challenge all of you to watch one more session then you usually do, and if you watch them all koodos!
I love and miss you all! thank you for the support!
love sister wotherspoon
p.p.s the weather here has been fantastic! hotter than there summer! :D
