We were tracting on
Thursday and first I had to use the restroom really badly, so we began
walking in the opposite direction to a members' home whose bathroom I
could use. We're walking and a lady with her son is out front, I'm
working on talking to everyone, so of course, I open my mouth. We talk
to her for a bit and then she said, "I'm Mormon. I actually grew up
Mormon. I guess you'd say I'm less active now!" And so we try to figure
out a little bit more about her and turns out she has a daughter who
would like to be baptized. Her daughter is 8, so technically she doesn't
need the lessons; however, we figured that we should teach her anyway
because then her mom could listen in. Thankfully, we spoke with a lady
that same night that told us that's how her dad was reactivated. And on
Friday this lady showed up at our Fall Festival, she only made it to the
end, but that's a great sign. And she said that we showed up at the
perfect time she had recently been talking about getting back into the
swing of things. We'll see how it all works out! (oh, and don't worry,
she let me use her restroom) ;)
After that we
continued tracting and we met this lady named Kaly. She answered and was
so sweet and nice we talked to her about coming to closer to Christ by
studying and praying everyday and using the Atonement. She was extremely
receptive, so we transitioned into the Restoration. We taught her the
entire lesson and as we were introducing the Book of Mormon she said,
"Yeah!" And we're like, "Will you read it?" She was completely willing
to try it out. We made sure she knew that the adversary would try and
stop her, but that we would bring her one next week. We set up another
appointment and off we went. We can't see her until Thursday :/, but
we're praying that it will all work out! Wish us luck!
On
Tuesday we went to the community center and stuff to find more service
in the area, when we were finished we looked over our list and our gps
to see who we should visit. This one lady's name kept popping out to me
so we decided to go there. We get to this little, old house and there's a
FOR SALE sign with a man's name on it. For a second we though, "Nah,
she probably doesn't even live here anymore." Then we thought about it
and said, "Maybe she's renting from the owner." So we knock. We man
answers and he's definitely not the owner or the lady. In fact, he's
renting from the lady, who part owns it with her uncle who's name was on
the sign. He informs us that he's moving soon and that he's not
interested, his dad grew up Mormon. We give him our card and tell him to
call us if he needs help moving. That night, while we were at dinner,
we received a voicemail from an unknown number. It was the man we had
met and he said, "Hey you stopped by my house earlier. Would we be able
to meet? I've actually been feeling really lost and I need some
blessings in my life." !! YES! We set up the appointment for the next
night because we didn't have any time that night. Unfortunately he
called us the next day and apologized because him and his daughter had
fevers and we'd have to come back another night. He sounded legitimately
sincere, in comparison to 90% of the other people we talk to. That was
nice. We role played with the couple we were going to bring as our team
up and it went really well. They set a deadline for themselves to give
some of their friends a copy of the Book of Mormon in three weeks. It's
people that they've prayed about and really felt like would be
interested in reading it.
Also, this couple is
related to us. Well, the husband is. He's from William Wood's line! And
he introduced me to his dad, who on Sunday asked if I wanted to take a
name to the temple when we go next. Her name is Rachel Hassett Wood. She
is from England and he got her record from England because some of his
work is there. Also, the husband of the younger couple served in Japan
and come to find out that William Wood may have been one of the first
members in Japan just like he was in Arica, Chile. It was cool because I
was like, "whoa! That happened to my brother when he was in Chile." His
dad sent him William Wood's account when he was in Japan just like my
dad sent Davis William Wood's account in Chile. Cool huh? Small world.
Hope that made some semblance of sense.
We had
our Fall Fest on Friday and it went really well! So many people invited
their friends and we had the chance to meet most of them and it was
really cool. Hopefully we'll start increasing our teaching pool. Sister
Winegar and I have been focusing a lot on relying solely on the Lord. We
pray earnestly for inspiration and guidance for the things that we need
to do. It's been really cool to see how much the Spirit has in fact
been guiding us. It strengthens my testimony on the care God has for his
children.
Love y'all,
Sister Smith
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