Hello, all! It was a little bit of a boring week as we were stuck inside for three days, but here goes:
On
Monday night we stopped by A.'s house to see how he was doing. He
said he had been reading the Book of Mormon and praying. The coolest
thing was that you could tell! Both Sister Minson and I saw in his
countenance that he was happier and closer to the Holy Spirit. There
was a light in his eyes.
On Tuesday, we had a
district meeting and since we were low on miles, we were able to ride
part way with the Land O Lakes sisters. They are really awesome!
Sister Blanchard gave away a Book of Mormon at a stoplight. The light
turned green before she was back in the car. It was crazy! Later that
night, Sister Minson and I realized that we were both in Women's Glee
Choir at BYU-Idaho at the same time! (Fall 2014)
On
Tuesday night as we were getting ready for bed, we got a call to stay
in the apartment for the next 24 hours because of the hurricane. Sister
Minson was starting to feel sick anyway. We got special permission to
go see a doctor (who diagnosed strep throat) and pick up an antibiotic
on Wednesday morning. For the next 3 days, we stayed inside because
even at the small intervals that we were allowed to go back outside, we
had to stay in so Sister Minson could rest and recover. It was really
hard to exercise inside in the morning. When Sister Minson was napping,
I organized my things, read a lot, clipped my nails, washed
dishes...whatever I could think of. When she was awake, we were able
to watch videos together. We made waffles for dinner one night.
On
Saturday, the storm had passed and so had the sickness. Yay! We
taught R and her mom about family history work. We also taught A again. He seems to understand and believe what we teach. He even
shared an experience that he had a dream when he was younger that
corresponds to our belief on why God sent us here to earth. But he
doesn't understand why he needs to do anything different from what he's
already doing. We hope our lesson on Wednesday will help. What he is
doing is great, but there is so much more!
Yesterday
at church, R and her mom were at church and R shared her
testimony! We went to see a referral we got the day before who
requested a Bible in English. We were able to teach E, his wife
M, daughter-in-law M, and her mother I! They are from
Egypt. They seemed pretty curious as to what we believe and were
excited to read both the Bible and the Book of Mormon! That night we
met a woman from Burlington, MA - one town over from where I grew up!
She let us pray with her.
I guess it wasn't a bad week :) I hope you all are doing well!
-- Sister Porter
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Pictures:
These are some pictures that I wasn't able to send last week. The first two are us with A after she spent an evening with us. The others are just things I thought were cool - a fish mailbox, and a tiny frog on our car!
Pictures 1 and 2: Our haircuts!
Picture 3: us with Elder and Sister Foster at the zone conference!Picture
4: me, Sister Hunt, Sister Felt, Sister Swanson, Sister Clement, Sister
Chavez, Sister Gucake, and Sister Minson at lunch at the zone
conference :)
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