June 9, 2014

Hey how's everybody this week? I hope really well. And happy birthday

to you Matthew! You old man! This week has been pretty crazy in a good

way for sister Petersen and I, we found two families to teach. The

first one is a little family we met last Wednesday. The mother's name

is Shequita and the dad is Reggie. They were on our potential sheet

from a few years ago and so we decided to stop by and see them. We ended up meeting Shequita first and talking a little bit with her. We then

asked if we could come back later so that we could share a message with

her and she said that would be fine. We took the Reid family with us when

we went back to meet with Shequita and we taught her the message of

the restoration. It went very well and the spirit was very strong. By

the end of the lesson she was in tears and telling us how she wanted

her whole family to hear this message. She also expressed that she and

her family were experiencing difficulties, and she knew that coming

closer to God would help them. We agreed and told her that we would

love to meet and teach her about families and she loved that idea. She

asked us if we could come back the very next day to meet her husband

and we said we could do that, except for when we came back they were

having some drama in their house and we weren’t able to stay. But she 

was glad that we stopped by and told us that she would call us later and

tell us when we could come back. Well we were a little bummed, we thought she was never going to call us back – these types of things happen all the time.  Later that evening she called us and told us

that she was sorry and about earlier in the day.  She said I didn’t want

you to think that I was just leading you all on; I really do want my family

to hear the message that you shared. She said I've talk to my husband

and shared with him he things I've learned about the Book of Mormon

that you gave me, and we agreed together that we need to learn this as

a family. She again apologize for earlier and asked when it was that

we could come back. We told her not to worry about it, and that we

understand that these types of things happen sometimes. We set up a

time that we could come back and teach her family again, and it

will be later this week! The next few days were a bit hard as we tracted

a lot and weren’t having much success. We knocked on a few peoples’

doors and had some interesting interactions with them. I gave one lady

a card and told her to check out the website on it, once she realized

that we were "Mormons" she threw it back in my face and slammed the

door. Some people are so rude. By Sunday night 7:45 PM we still weren’t

seeing much success, as we drove all I could think in my mind was

Heavenly Father please I just need a miracle. Then a name came into my

mind, Richard, a Catholic man Sister Petersen and I had met tracting

in the rain two weeks ago. We decided that we would go over and visit

him and see if he was still interested in hearing a message.  His

brother-in-law Antonio answered the door when we got there and invited

us into his home. He welcomed us to sit on the couch as he gathered

the rest of the family. A little bit odd too - Sister Petersen and I sat

a little nervous as we weren’t prepared that they would welcome us into

their home. Antonio, his wife Gail, their daughter Asia and Richard all

sat around. Antonio then apologized for not welcoming us into their

home two weeks ago, because they were having dinner as a family. We

told them we understood and that everything was fine. Then a moment of

silence came as they all stared at us waiting to hear a message. The first

thing that came to my mind was to share a Mormon message, Earthly

Father, Heavenly Father, and then to talk about families and how the

Book of Mormon can help our families be together forever. We testified

of eternal families and the love our Father in Heaven has for us, we

also talked about how there is a living prophet here today and how we

can come to know that by reading the Book of Mormon. They seemed very

intrigued by it and when we asked them if they would read the it they said yes. The spirit was very strong and they agreed with the things that

we were saying, Antonio told us that we are welcome to come into his

home anytime we wanted. We asked if we could come back the next week

and share more about the restored Gospel and how it can bless their

family. They said yes, so we are looking  forward to seeing the family in a

week. That is pretty much all that's been going on around here. I will

let you know how everything goes! But I have to go now, love you all!

Sister Jamison