What a crazy week it has
been! But also one of many miracles!
The beginning of the
week we were rushing to visit all of our investigators, before Sister Ormsby
left on Wednesday.
It was crazy but we did
it. Sister Ormsby went to Milwaukee and is in a trio now! She will do
wonderful things there and I will miss her! My new companion is Sister
Cosgrove! She is from Orem, Utah and we have had a lot of adventures and
fun together this week! Her companion is now serving in Marquette with
Sister Ostler! It is neat to see the connections!
We had a lesson with
Donna at Sister Fesutel's home and it was wonderful. It really does make
a world of difference to have a missionary lesson in a member's home.
Sister Feustel truly shows her love and concern for Donna and knows her so well
so she can help her understand things the things that we discuss with
her. It also helps that Sister Feustel is also a convert and knows what
it is like to be a young investigator. It has been difficult to get her
to church lately though. Donna used to come every week and now her mom
has started this brunch on Sundays exactly the same time as church so Donna has
not been able to come. So that is sad but we hope that she still
continues to want to meet with us. Donna loves learning Spanish and my
companion went to church in a spanish branch so she learned how to say the
prayer in spanish there. Sister Cosgrove said the prayer in Spanish at
the end of the lesson for Donna and Donna absolutely loved it! Donna is
trying to teach me a little as well.
On Fridays, we volunteer
at the hospital with a girl named Nicole. She absolutely love playing the
piano! We sometimes get to play together at the hospital. Anyway,
she has had some question about the church as well and it has been neat to have
an opportunity to talk about the church while we volunteer. To our
surprise on Friday evening some members took us out to eat at the Eden Grill
and that is where Nicole works and also another member of the branch named
Emily. Emily is waiting for her mission call. Well, she was super
excited that we were there and at the end she said "see you next Friday or
maybe sooner!" That made us excited but we will see what
happens. At another lesson with the Lennop family, grandma Charlotte was
there and she is a former investigator. We invited her to church and she
was thinking about. She wants to try to quit smoking. I think her
heart is softening.
We had a lot of other
things happen this week too, like a great lesson with Bonnie. She says
she is starting to understand it better now. We have a problem with
getting our investigators to church though because a lot of the are older and
it is hard for them to get out of the house.
I just love the branch
here! Sister Reigel, Sister Schrauth, Bro. and Sister Schmidt, all
sacrifice so much for the gospel! They always ask what days can we come
out with you. Well, we are continually praying for miracles and for a
baptism in each area by October General Conference. Some areas have already
seen baptisms so far that haven't had them in over a year. So miracles
are happening. Sister Cosgrove and I decided to study diligence this week
in our studies together and then today we got an email from Pres. Cutler about
mission tour in August and we were asked to study diligence, haha. It is
amazing how things like that happen!
One more miracle!
We met the guy that works at Wal-mart again today and he said he has been
reading the Book of Mormon and really likes what it teaches about
Christ! We met him a couple of weeks again and told him to read it
and said he would. It is neat to see that he is and that he is thinking
about calling the missionaries (us).
Well, the church is
miraculously true! love you!
