Hello Wonderful family!
Happy Birthday to all those wonderful people in my life that
have been having birthdays lately! I LOVE YOU ALL!!! And hope that you had some
marvelous celebrations :) I'll give you a hug for your birthdays someday.
Sister Howle and I prayed about where to go yesterday, and
chose a certain area to work in. We worked there for about an hour and were
about to leave to go to dinner. But an extra surge of energy hit both of us as
we unlocked the car door to leave, and we both decided that we wanted to stay
for five more minutes before we left. After deciding that, we walked to the
first door that we saw and as we were about to knock, a couple drove into the
driveway and just stared at us wondering who we were (haha I love the looks
that people give us sometimes). We went to their window and introduced
ourselves. We introduce ourselves and started speaking their Jamaican language
to them and they thought it was hilarious. After seeing our name tags, they
asked us if we would like to come in and talk to them about Jesus Christ. We
smiled and said "Of course!". It was a marvelous experience. Neither
of them have been baptized and that is something that they yearn for. They have
a cute, young family and we are just so excited to work with them. We wouldn't
have met them had we left earlier.
On Friday night, the stake held a "Meet the
Mormons" movie night at the church, everyone was invited to come. We had a
very good turnout! And the movie was great as always. My highlight of the night
was, during the movie, I turned around to see who was there and I saw MARY FROM
MISSISSAUGA!!!! She and her friends came to watch the movie. Haha I bolted out
of my chair and felt my way over to her in the dark and gave her the biggest
hug. She looks so good :) She plans on coming to the temple to do baptisms on
the 7th as well so I will get to see her again! She has prepared 13 of her own
family names to perform. I'm so proud of her :)
Brother N... came to the movie as well and enjoyed it very
much. The next day, he was so excited to tell us about his experience of
getting to the church. He took a cab, and on his way there he got talking to
the driver about God and what his beliefs are. When they got to the church, B.
N... took out the money to pay him and the driver told him no charge, that he
was grateful for the conversation that he had with Brother N... and hoped
that he had a great time at the movie. Brother N... was flabbergasted. He is
having so many experiences like that! We are making sure that he writes all
those experiences down in his journal :)
After talking with someone we always ask them if there is
anything we can do to help them or their family. We were talking to this man at
his door and at the end asked if there was any service we could do to help his
family, he said no, and we left. The next day we received a very angry
voicemail on our phone from the woman at the house telling us that we had no
right to ask if they needed help with anything. That it wasn't our right to ask
to serve when we don't know who they are or what they are going through. Haha
we thought it was kind of funny.
I love you all! Hope you have a marvelous week!! Keep your
standards!!
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