It was so good to see my family, and see how much all the kids
are changing. I'm sure Christmas will be here before we know it! Also,
Happy cinco de mayo to everyone who cares. Sadly, I don't think anyone in
Georgia knew about it, but I celebrated it proudly and ate a burrito.
Ole! Feliz cinco de
mayo!
This week was another great one! We have so many progressing
investigators right now, but we just can't get hardly anyone to come to church!
Faithful Sister Campbell came, and she even stayed all three hours. We
just need to help her with the word of wisdom and she'll be awesome!
We did some
service for her with the Benich's this week, and that was way fun! We painted
the trims all around her house while Elder Benich mowed all of her lawn and
Sister Benich played with her granddaughter. We just painted and enjoyed her
crazy stories (:
Yep, we have red dirt! This is the back of our apartment
The primary kids sang a song for Mother's day, and I played
the piano for them. Sister Call and I even got a flower at the end of
sacrament meeting :) I guess I'm somehow qualifying as an official mother now…
We got to give the lesson in the gospel principles class, and it was totally
last minute, but it went great! It's cool that I've finally reached the point
that I don't freak out about giving lessons in church anymore. Just keep
talking and ask questions, and they'll think you're doing great. Oh, and probably
teach with the spirit, too.
This is probably the biggest baptist church around.
Good intentions.
We had awesome lessons this week with four of our investigators. One is struggling a bit committing to another date
since he's had a few before. We just went back to the basics and taught
him the restoration using our cups object lesson, and he asked a ton of deeper
questions, which was great. We feel that he's making progress again.
We taught our little investigator the 10 commandments, and even added hand signs so he could remember them all. He's so excited to be baptized, but
the only thing holding him back is getting to church! Every week it's another
excuse, but we're not giving up!
Another investigator is.. haha. Well, she's quite the talker. We
were there for like two hours, and we only got through about two points of the
first lesson. She said it herself, her brain chases squirrels. Of this I
can testify. She's awesome though! Her fiance has been
less active on and off for like 20 years or so and is now just starting to come
back. She has even been reading a kids Book of Mormon with her kids at
night. She's great!
Pet goat? I like it!
We taught another amazing investigator, a member's less active
son's fiance. She has been so prepared! We taught the POS (plan of
salvation) to her, and she loved it all. She even wants to start doing
family history so she can take some names to the temple! She loves the Book of
Mormon, and was ready to be baptized since before we even met her. 
Our handywoman masterpiece
I think it was on Saturday when we had the worst luck! We
taught one lesson in the morning where they weren't even interested, and then
throughout the day appointment after appointment cancelled on us or they
weren't there. We were tracting in an apartment complex, and we got
kicked out haha. It was the worst!
We had one appointment left of the
day, and we went not knowing what to expect because there were probably 10
people present when we had originally met the family. Well, we went to
their house, and there was Mary, the mom, and a pastor.
I think that meeting may have been more for us than for him, and it was quite
humbling. It's always weird when other people preach at you, but you just
kind of take it and try to be loving. But this guy was so loving and
genuine; I couldn't help but think that this was to humble us and to encourage
us. He didn't bash or anything, but he encouraged us to stay strong in
the faith and keep spreading the gospel. He'd even read the Book of
Mormon before and knows about Joseph Smith, and said he knows it's all true... he
just doesn't see a reason to act on it.
It wasn't a waste of our time
though. The Lord always knows what we need, and he was watching out for us all
throughout the day. The tender mercies of the Lord are truly over all
those whom he hath chosen, BECAUSE OF THEIR FAITH, to make them mighty unto the
power of deliverance. This is true, my friends.
Love, Sister Facer
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