June 16, 2014

Hello Family! 

How are you all doing this week! Happy Father's Day and Happy Birthday Matt! Hope those all went well for everyone!  Well this week was pretty good. We had been having some really bad thunderstorms and we had a small tornado pass through.  It didn't do too much damage, although sadly some people’s homes got some damage.  There is a less active lady in our ward that we have been visiting-Sister Stratton- and we went over to see how she was doing and her house got hit pretty badly, there was a big hole in the back of her house and half of the furniture in her house was on the lawn. She was pretty distraught about it, as anyone would be.  But she now has it all back together; she just needs to get the hole fixed and all the trees around her house that have fallen.  We are pretty lucky that it didn't come by where we live, which is only about 2 and a half miles away. There are a lot of trees in the area though that have been snapped like twigs. That is going to be a big clean up just because these tress are massive.  We are starting into hurricane season though, so things like this will start happening a lot more often. But that's ok; they aren't as bad as they sound. Well anyways on to happier news!!! So this week we were able to go back to Shequitas and teach her and her husband and the lesson went very well. They are so into the gospel and learning together it is great! They were also really excited to come to church yesterday, but ended up not being able to come because the night before their 10 year old son Reggie was riding his bike down a hill and wearing flip flops and his foot caught the ground and it just flipped him right off.  He landed on his head and got an abrasion poor kid, so they were in the emergency room Saturday night and stayed home with him on Sunday so that he could rest. I don't blame them. We also were able to have a really good lesson with Richard this week.  We had the Vega family come with us and that was so good. Sister Vega grew up Jehovah Witness and then converted, and brother Vega is from Puerto Rico, so he was able to explain things that didn't make sense to Richard in Spanish, and it really, really helped.  It gets really frustrating for me in a situation like that because I understand most everything that is being said I just can't respond! Haha so I am grateful for the members that come and help! We didn't really have anything else too exciting this week haha; it's been a tad slow. But we are still working hard even in all this crazy weather!  I wish I could write more today but I really have no time:/ But I love you all and I will write next week!

Sister Jamison!