Not much else happened last Monday. We tried street contacting...we are still working on that.
Tuesday we helped clean and get things ready at Freedom Hill. That afternoon we volunteered at New Beginnings. During all this, the Lord rearranged our plans. Things didn't go as planned. So we tried to do some finding and visiting less active's. After all our appointment's canceled, and it was too late to tract, we settled for some mormon.org time where we got to watch the new mormon message. Again. It is amazing. It was able to really uplift me. Here is the link. You truly never know how much good you will do in the world.
Wednesday was an awesome day. After we read with Alma, we got to go to Houston. Guess what we got to do there?!?! WE GOT TO WATCH A SNEAK PREVIEW TO "MEET THE MORMON'S"!!! I would recommend that all of you who are reading this, go and watch it!!! It is so amazing!!! Also, David Archuleta sing's the song "Glorious" at the end. It's beautiful. The song is attached and you can watch the trailer here. Let me just say the whole film is amazing. GO SEE IT!!! We also got to eat lunch at Chick-fil-a. That's a great treat!! We had correlation that night and I've just come to love all that Brother Plumb does for us. He's so great.
Thursday morning we helped out at the Knox. Their grandma moved into a nursing home and we are helping get the house ready for an estate sale this next weekend. There is so much porcelain doll making stuff, it is almost creepy. But I must say it was fun to explore it all with Sister R. Plumb(branch president's wife) and Ruth Knox (they're sisters). After that and lunch there, we drove home and did some cleaning up before we had to go and help out at gazebo. That is always fun. I love the older folks. We got to paint nails this past week. Dinner was at the Young's. Sister Young has Celiac Disease and she made some AWESOME chicken spaghetti. Mom. I'm pretty sure dad would like it. She used the GF Barilla pasta. It was just like normal pasta. I had a quizzical look on my face as I took the first bite and she re-assured me that it was gluten free. It was SO good. That night we had an appointment with Jordache about missionary work. It was great to have Tanner and Anthony there to help teach about missionary work. After that, instead of staying around for sports night, we darted over to Brother Plumb's to share a quick message with one of the Elder's recent converts. We all decided that after baptism the other companionship would teach the new member discussion's to them. I am really liking this idea.
Friday we had district meeting after lunch we did some finding and then the dreaded weekly planning. So we are sitting there during weekly planning talking about how we are going to find people...seeing as our last investigator was getting baptized this past weekend. Tracting was a success in this past baptism and a kinda-member in the one prior and as we were thinking about how we were going to get more people to teach, the Lord just placed one in our lap through a mormon.org referral. I LOVE these. It's THE BEST way to find people who are ready. I mean they put themselves out there to talk to us. It just shows that they are ready. That evening before dinner we went to go and find her and we found that we needed an apartment number. Funny thing: she lives in the Elder's apartment complex. So we called her. She told us that when her friend had told her the missionaries would contact her quickly...she didn't believe it. So, when we did, she was surprised. We have an appointment set with her on Wednesday. We are so excited. The last time this happened to me, I found Mariah!!! I love how the Lord uses these tender mercies to bless his missionaries. It gave us a GREAT pick up and optimism. Speaking of Mariah, she's getting baptized this next month!! YAY!! I won't be able to go, but I'll totally be cheering her on from here. that night was dinner with the Jensen's and one last lesson with Jordache. Tanner came and we showed Jordache all of the churches websites.
Saturday was Jordache's baptism!! That morning we finished up planning, went to clean the church, came back to change and eat, went and taught family history at the church, filled the font, BAPTISM, went and ate dinner (it began raining) came back to the church for the women's broadcast, watched the first like 30 minutes with glitches every minute and a half or so. Needless to say, I haven't watched the women's broadcast yet. It's a little heart wrenching because it is one thing I can do with my mom even if we aren't in the same state. I'm over it kinda. Sister Carlile made chocolate-chip, banana bread for me. :) I love her so much. This afternoon we are going to quilt at her house. YAY! Saturday was a great day even if I didn't get to see it. Jordache got baptized and with his baptism came his little quirks. He's so funny. He got in the font and waved at us with this big grin. Anthony was baptizing him and when he went to "dunk" him, we forgot to tell Jordache to bend his knees. *facepalm* so there's anthony trying to baptize jordache (who's taller than him!) and we forgot to tell him to bend his knees. When we got that down, we were good. Only one dunk and a few people saying "bend your knees!!"
Sunday we had meetings
and church and studies per-usual. Dinner was at the Dein's. They're a cute
family that I got to officially meet and get to know better. After dinner, we
drove back to town to visit a less active and to visit sister Stading. She
lived in Sealy and knows Sis St.Clair. It was fun to talk to her about all that
and to get to know her better. She's had a tough life and is such an example to
me of "enduring to the end".
That pretty much sums up my week. Pray that we find people. That's all I can ask.
Keep on keeping on.
Keep moving forward.
Have a blessed day y'all!!
That pretty much sums up my week. Pray that we find people. That's all I can ask.
Keep on keeping on.
Keep moving forward.
Have a blessed day y'all!!
--Sister
Carling
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