I'm so grateful for the new skirts you sent for
Christmas!!!!!!!! We had a little mishap that I forget to tell
you about ... So a few week ago one of the members in our ward offered to mend
our skirts because of few of my skirts had gotten little rips in them.
She did and dropped them off to us on a night that happened to be garbage
night. We left the bag by the door and accidently took it out with
our garbage! So I lost a lot of good skirts unfortunately but I'm
grateful I still have enough skirts to wear because of Christmas! :)
So this week we taught Yu more about the Book of Mormon and read a
chapter with him. He said even in japanese it is difficult for him to
understand a lot of things but he read Enos and really liked the last
verse! We talked about "likening" or applying the scriptures to
ourselves and he felt like he could really relate to Nephi. We gave him a
restoration DVD and told him he could watch it in japanese and he was very
excited about that! He really really wants to come to church and was so
sad that he couldn't this week because he had to go to Milwaukee and next week
he is going to Green Bay. We are really excited for him to come but it seems
like something always takes him somewhere else. He asked if he could
come on wednesday, so he could meet some of the other people from the
ward. We are excited for him to come!
Yesterday we were going to meet a less active member that we have
never met before. The apartment building was locked so we couldn't get in
to knock on our door. We felt like we should knock lightly on the window,
so we did. A woman came out. At first we thought she was angry at
us but she was actually really nice. She was not a member of our church
but said that we could say a prayer with her. We did. Afterward,
she said "you don't know what you just did for me." She then
said that later this week she is going to have surgery. We shared the
Book of Mormon with her and she wants to learn more and come to our
church. She even knows a member from the ward, Sister Heinrich! She
called her right after we left and Sister Heinrich told us that she committed
to read and pray about the Book of Mormon!
Also, Joy, who speaks only Laos, came to church with her
family this week! When we go to see her we always sing a hymn to her and
say a prayer with her and even though it's not the same language she
always loves it! At church I just loved how happy she was! A
couple of week ago, we had a feeling to stop by when we were in the area.
We did and when we came in we saw her grandson covered in chocolate, with
chocolate smeared all over the wall and candy everywhere! She looked
a little overwhelmed! We had just enough time to help her clean
up the mess. I'm so glad that we stopped and could help her!
It was really neat so I thought I'd share it. :)
The church is applicably true!
