Hey family!
Sounds like everyone has been so busy lately with a lot of
exciting things going on, that's nice to hear that you all are staying
busy.
Well this week was a busy one, Sister Petersen and I are really
being tried I think haha
We had some really good lessons set up this week with Shequita
and her family and every single one fell through. Needless to say we were
bummed out. She kept canceling on us and we just think that she is not
interested right now, but that she is too nice to say so. So on Saturday
when we went over with the Silva family to have a lesson, Shequita didn't
answer. So we left her a note and just told her that we were sorry that we
missed her and that we could see that she was really busy at the moment, and that
if she was still interested in learning about the gospel that we would be happy
to come back by. She hasn't called us since then and so that is a bummer. This
last Tuesday we also had a lesson with Richard that fell through, we went to
his house with the Vega's and he was sitting outside. He looked very stressed
and told us that it was not a good day for him. Apparently his sister and
brother-in-law were having some marital problems and that they had been
fighting all day about splitting up and that everyone was going to have to move
out of the house. So way drama, Richard was very stressed because he didn't
know where he was going to go, and of course that made us stressed because we
didn't want to lose him because he is so prepared! Well so we left and he told
us to call him in a few days to see how things are so we did that and it was
still seemed to be a mess at his house. We told him that we were keeping
him in our prayers and that we knew that Heavenly Father would help out his
family at this time and that things would work out because he was supposed to
learn the gospel. After we had gotten off the phone we realized what
we had promised and we were a little nervous. We decided that we needed to say
a prayer right then and there for Richard so that things would work out in a
way that he could stay and continue to learn the gospel. Later that evening we
were out with a member, Sister Rodriguez and we had decided to go over to
Richards to see how he was and share a message with him. Richard was happy to
see us and we could tell things were still not going well. We shared our
message and then invited Richard to church and promised him that if he would
make the effort to come that Heavenly Father would bless his family and he said
I hope you are right. We said a prayer with him and then we were on our way.
Yesterday at church when the Vega's walked in Richard was with them. He
looked a lot happier that day and we were so excited that he had made
arrangements to come to church. After it was all over Richard was smiling and
seemed to be so much calmer than he had been all week. Sister Lyons the
young womens president came up to introduce herself and asked Richard how he
liked church and he responded " I loved it, I want to come back tomorrow!"
It was pretty cute. After she left I was asking Richard how things were
going at home and he smiled and said, things are getting better, I asked him if
he still had to move, and he say no they are letting me stay. MIRACLE! I was so
happy to hear that, I told Richard that Heavenly Father really is looking out
for him and he said I know he is. It was so good! We have another lesson with
him tomorrow night with Brother and Sister Rodriquez, we are teaching the POS
and so it should go really well. We also have been working with a less
active lady in our ward Sister Stratton, we were able to start teaching her the
lessons and we invited her to church and she said she would come, so this is
good. She wasn't able to come yesterday because she had a procedure done
on Friday and so she has been resting and trying to recover from that. But
hopefully we can get her there this Sunday! This week is the last week of the
transfer, which is crazy. It has felt pretty slow for me, but I know that it is
going to get faster. Once I start the new transfer next week I will only have 2
more to go. That is so weird to think. I need to start getting ready for
school. I really hope to be able to go back to the U and start the spring
semester. We will see how that goes. Well have a good week! Talk to you
later!
Sister
Jamison
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