Wow! This week was awesome!
Let's start at the
beginning...on Monday afternoon we got free slurpees from 7-11 and then
went to a member's home to alter some of our clothes. We spent a long
time there and before we knew it it was already 4:30 and we still had to
go grocery shopping and wash the car. Brother T offered to make
us food and he made us sandwiches! Then we were at another member's
home, the As, and they gave us a pizza. Seriously, they had
ordered pizza and it got there just as we were leaving and they had
ordered an extra one for us. Score! Oh, and I got an awesome package
from my mom that night, too :) Now we have music to listen to in the
car!
On Tuesday, Sister Anderson and I went to
the district meeting in Tampa and then went on an exchange for a day. I
was with Sister Harper, the other Sister Training Leader, until
Wednesday morning and she is awesome! She taught me a lot about being
more bold and confident. I wanted to go see a woman named C that
we had met because we were in her area. When she answered the door, I
asked her if she was still interested in our church and she immediately
said yes. She said she had just been watching a spiritual movie called
Miracles in Heaven and was wondering which church to go to on Sunday!
Sister Harper invited her to be baptized and she wants to! She was
definitely going to come to church and hopefully bring her family, we
even stopped by to remind her on Saturday, but none of them showed up.
However, we asked a young man to invite his friend that we had met to
come to church and he did and he came! We are meeting with him tonight
because he wants to learn more!
Sister Harper
and I also met another woman who we invited to be baptized and had 2
really good discussions with, but she called us later and said she
really feels like she is good where she is at. She has already been
baptized, believes in the Bible, and said if the Book of Mormon is true,
then she has one now and that's all she feels she needs. But there is
so much more than that!
We also heard from A,
the lady who gave us cake and ice cream, that she wants to be baptized
but doesn't feel spiritually ready yet. We know she is because she
loves the Savior and truly desires to do what is right. That's all that
is really needed in order to start progressing towards baptism.
We
also met with K to brainstorm the program for her baptism! A lot
of the members she wanted to help with things are going to be out of
town so we will have to figure that out. I might play the piano for the
opening and closing hymns and/or say the opening prayer. Sister
Anderson is going to play a musical number while K gets dressed
after the baptism. I just can't wait! She is not going to BYU-Idaho
anymore, at least for a while. She went to the YSA (Young Single Adult)
ward for the first time yesterday :)
One day
we were walking and I said, "I just want water. No, A/C. No, water AND
A/C!" A little later this awesome couple lets us in to their house and
gives us water. They shared amazing testimonies of how God has
influenced their lives. God really does love us :)
Well,
there have been many other miracles this week but this email is already
getting long. I hope you all are doing well and send you love all the
way from Florida!
-- Sister Porter
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Pictures:
First picture: Sister Harper and I on the left,
Sister King in the front, then Sister Lance and Sister Anderson. This
was at the end of the exchange :)
Second picture: This is a very common door decoration. We like it :) Pineapple doorbells and frog doorbells are also popular.
Third and fourth pictures: the result of getting caught in the rain...
Fifth picture: P-day selfie :)
Hope you all have a great week!
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