Hello Family and Friends!
This week was great.
Thursday night Sister Kafoa and I went over to a member's home. Her name is Lily, she just moved from New Jersey but was baptized in the Sugar Hill ward in 2010. Her daughter Grace, who is 12 now, was also baptized. In 2012 she married a non-member, David, and they moved to New Jersey. Sister Kafoa and I went and visited her a couple weeks ago before her husband came in town, we did a practice lesson and the Spirit was really strong. This past Thursday we went over, planning to do another practice lesson, and her husband answers the door. He's a big black guy with a REALLY deep voice, the kind that could easily put you to sleep (in a good way). They let us in and we begin teaching about the Restoration. Grace and Lily bore their testimonies throughout the lesson and then, somehow, it shifted to us inviting David to read the Book of Mormon and to be baptized. Not sure what changed, pretty sure the Spirit interjected and took hold of the lesson, but he said yes to both and said he might come to church on Sunday.
Well, we didn't see them during sacrament meeting, so we assumed they didn't come. Then we get to Gospel Principles and they walk in! I asked, "Were y'all here during sacrament?" Lilly replied, "Yeah, but we were just sitting out in the foyer because we were a little late." Throughout the rest of class and then when we showed him to Elder's Quorum, he seemed very comfortable and welcomed. Tonight they promised to come to Tyler and Valentina's FHE so that should be good.
Oh and last Monday's FHE was a bust :/ the people who said they could come cancelled about 1-2 hours before the fhe and that was really sad. Thankfully, we all discussed the importance of faith and patience, so we decided to hold another one this week and felt that the Lord would provide people to come!
Lanay is doing well. Still preparing for baptism. She met with the Bishop yesterday, and we were able to go and that was good, he could get a feel for who she is and officially meet her. She's holding her own FHE tonight and we'll be presenting the lesson.
Everything is doing great. The awesome couple we met probably got into some anti because they have been kind of avoiding us :(. But that's okay. Faith and patience.
Love y'all!
Sister Smith
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