We got 3 new investigators! Woo! They're former investigators, which means they had been taught by the missionaries before. Emma is about 50 years old and when we stopped by to teach her, her son William who is 26 sat in and listened. We think he is more interested than his mom, so we're anxious to see what happens, although we probably will end up passing him off to the YSA sisters. Mike is our other investigator; he is in his late forties and is open to learning about different religions. His family is a strong Lutheran family, but he said he would read the Book of Mormon and pray to God to ask if there really is just one true church, and to know if the Book of Mormon is really the word of God. Reading the Book of Mormon brings true conversion! Yeah! We didn't meet with Rufina this week... she's a stubborn Catholic although she didn't even know what the Bible was last week or who Jesus Christ is.... "but she's Catholic and she's never changing!" we'll still work with her and hopefully she'll come around. She lives with her mormon kids and grandkids so that helps, too. Claude and his wife came to church yesterday!!! Claude is so awesome and should just be baptized already. Yesterday we tried setting up an appointment to come over but it was actually his wife (who is a member) that kept coming up with reasons why they're busy and can't have a lesson. Then their home teacher asked Claude if he could come over this week and even though his wife said they had stuff to do to prepare for their rodeos Claude just said to her in his cowboy voice "Well I don't need the whole day tuh do it! You can come over on Tuesday." So we're stoked that their home teacher is finally going to be able to go over, and now we know that we need to set up appointments with Claude if we want to come over and not his wife... we'll see what we can do! That was a whole lot of information that probably doesn't matter for you guys though haha don't know why I just typed up that whole story.
We knocked a lot of doors this week and were out in the streets quite a bit trying to talk to everyone! Most of the people were surprisingly really nice! One lady answered her door and rudely rejected the message, and then as we were walking away, just opened her door back up and said, "are you girls hungry? you must be starving from working so hard. Wait here." Then she came back with apples for both Sister MacKay and I. It was weird to see her do a complete 360 from being rude to feeding us, but it was neat to see her change of heart- it showed in her eyes and on her face. The Spirit must have pricked her heart :). We had another neat experience this week- we had been trying to get ahold of a less-active lady in our ward Tracy, and we could never catch her at home or at the right time. She usually tells us to come over in the mornings, but when we were planning the night before, we felt like we should go see her in the evening instead. So we did, and she was so grateful that we came and she told us to come over the very next day, this time in the afternoon. What we didn't know, was that that day, our relief society president had gone to the temple and put her name on the prayer list so that we could get in touch with her and help her. After she had returned home from the temple we texted her and asked her to come with us to a lesson with Tracy. There's a cool testimony builder of temples and prayer and planning by the Spirit!
We got to help the Jones family put up some of their Christmas decorations this week! They have a mansion and set up about 12 trees each year, so we didn't finish... but it was fun and homey. We had hot chocolate afterwards and cookies, just like Christmas time. They are so awesome and generous and love the missionaries, and we love them :).
Love,
Hermana Inman
