What a great week! Here's a quick synopsis of our adventurous week.
Monday- We had our study group down in Burkesville, TN! The numbers are kind of struggling seeing that we only had 9 people, but we're happy that we had those 9 people for sure. Brianna Trammell, a recent convert, went with us and we had a great study. Afterwards we were asked to go visit a neighbor of the lady whose house we were at, and boy was that interesting. When he answered the door we were hit by a wave of marijuana smoke and discovered that he was only in long-john bottoms and Doc, who was with us, said, "Woowee, now that's marijuana." Luckily he didn't hear, but we gave him a Book of Mormon and we hope that he reads it.
Tuesday- After teaching Brianna and her grandpa, we took her with us to go sing with the old folks again. Every time we go we get asked to sing, and this time we sang "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" and it was great.
Wednesday- We watched "Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration" with Christy Hammer and we talked a lot about the Restoration and we were able to answer some of the main questions that she had. Later we were on the subject of fasting (somehow...) and she said, "what, you fast for 2 meals?! Why would you do that?" So we explained the blessings that she could get and she told us that she would fast with us this next fast-Sunday and if her baby sleeps through the night, she will be baptized. Challenge accepted. Later as our car was being fixed, we decided to go salvation seeking (aka. door knocking). Because both me and Sister Lamborn had done it before, we had Sister Trussell lead the discussions, and she did great! We were able to set 2 return appointments and we feel really good about both of them. One of them is a strong Baptist that at first seemed a bit hesitant to talk to us, was able to open up and tell us more about her job. We told her to call is if she ever needed help around the house and she seemed very excited about the offer, so cross your fingers!
Thursday- We had a great lesson with the Hull family. :) We taught them about the Plan of Salvation and we were able to get them pretty pumped for the after-life. As we were talking about Baptism, Dalton looked at us and said, "wait, you get baptized when you're 8 and I'm 10. Why am I not baptized?" So we told him that he could once he felt like he understood everything and felt the desire to, and he surprised us further by telling us that he knew that it was true and that he had felt the spirit tell him so. :)
Friday- We had our Trainer-Trainee meeting down in Nashville, and it didn't get cancelled this time... Man, it was such an amazing meeting and it got us all pumped to go out and do the work. During one of the trainings, one of the AP's talked about setting a vision for our investigators about how it will be once they're baptized and all three of us looked at each other and thought of Ronnie Hamilton. Ronnie is an investigator. His wife has been a member for most of her life and they come to church every week without fail, but Ronnie is having a hard time deciding whether to be baptized into our church or into the Church of Christ. We've been in a runt with him for a while, but since that meeting we feel a lot more prepared as to what to teach him. After the meeting we went to Chipotle with our driver, Sondra Davis and we talked all about what we had learned and she told us that she had learned a lot and is ready to teach some of her friends about the gospel. Woot! Woot!
Saturday- Because we were unable to do our weekly planning on Friday due to the Trainer-Trainee meeting, we decided to have one on Saturday. So we packed up sandwiches and headed to Lafayette, TN and did our planning at a local park. After the 3 hours of planning we decided that we deserved the chocolate bunny that awaited us in the car, but discovered that the bunny had completely melted, but that didn't stop us! We ended up using a straw to drink it out of the bag... yep... boarder line crazy, maybe, but I can tell you that it was pure melted deliciousness. Later we were able to help Martha Hawthorne with her family history work. We helped her print out her late husbands card so that we could take it to the temple with us when we go on Tuesday. It was cool to see how excited she was, and the spirit was very strong. It makes me excited to do my family history work for sure...
Sunday!- Always the most stressful, yet most relaxing day of the week. We were able to get Brianna Trammell to church to get her temple recommend to do baptisms, and later we went to visit with a sweet lady who has been less-active for a few years now. She lives with her husband and her 6 year old son in very tough circumstances, yet she is continually grateful for all that she has. Even though she hasn't been active for a while, she still has that sweet spirit that you find in those that are solid members. We invited her to come to church on Sunday, and we got a "maybe"! Later that evening we kidnapped Brianna again and took her around with us to all the teaching lessons that we had, and man, even though she is only 14 she was able to help us get 2 soft-baptism dates for 2 of our investigators. The first one was with Ms. Fay Bryant. Brianna told Fay that if she set a baptism date, that Heavenly Father would help her get over her fear of water, and Fay said yes to getting baptized on May 25th!!! Go Brianna! The second was with Phyllis... Now, you all know how stubborn Phyllis is.... yet Brianna was able to help her set another soft baptism date for the end of May... Like, what? We have been trying to do it for months and finally she decided to reset her date. Miracles happen!
Well, I sure hope everyone's week was just as peachy keen as mine was. :)
With all my love,
--Sister Peterson
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