August 22, 2011

Steak and Lobtsa Anyone?

I wish we ate that. Anyway I was just trying to think of new and creative lines to open my letter. But Hi! Life is good, once again reporting from good old Endicott, New York. Home of "Spiedies" (meat marinated in vinegar and garlic on skewers that you put on bread) and the "Square Deal" where the founders of the city owned a shoe company and bought everything then built houses and turned around and sold them to their workers. Free health care, dental care, and carousel rides for everyone. So, we have 6 carousels here and if you ride all 6 you get a button that says, "I rode the carousel circuit!" Yes… that is on my to do list. Anyway that is the history behind this area, pretty cool and you can even google it to find more information on that.

This week began a new transfer but nothing feels different since we didn't change, which is great because we can keep working with our people. We have 1 investigator getting baptized in September and we have been working a lot with him. He is getting ready for baptism and hopefully we can keep getting his Mom to church so he can be baptized. It is funny how Satan works very hard to ensure that these things don't happen via sicknesses, family crisis, or car problems. So annoying.

We also have a less active that has been coming faithfully for almost 2 months now! So in a few more weeks she will be counted as reactivated! Jeannie is awesome, we love her a lot and have seen a HUGE change in her since we started meeting with her. She comments how she can feel it too.

Story time: So we had a lesson planned with our Spanish-speaking investigator who lives on top of the hills of death. We decided to bring a Spanish speaking member to help us teach/ drive us there. Of course as things would have it, she calls 15 minutes before the appointment and says that she is stuck at the DMV. Great. That means she will be there for hours so no chance of moving the appointment. That and Sister Duncan almost fainted from the heat at a members home 10 minutes earlier so there was no way we could walk up all those hills. I was determined to get to this lesson so I called another Spanish speaking member and she was only 3 minutes away! She picked us up and we were off. Yeah for the tender mercies of the Lord! When you ask in faith it shall be given unto you. Nothing is more important that this work we are doing and if we put forth the effort that we want something the Lord will bless us according to our faith in Him. Obviously I am working on Faith this week. And Lots of miracles are coming from it, lots of potentials are trickling in. Hopefully we can teach them all. I have faith! :)

Gave a talk at a baptism yesterday. That was a first for me, kinda awkward hopefully nobody noticed. Anyway gotta run, until next week!