Busy day! Short email. Sorry! Here's what I sent to President Ware today.
I feel like Heavenly Father really has seen the desire I have to improve. The Lord has blessed us with opportunities to invite people to baptism! Samantha D. really wants to learn what God wants her to do and is so excited for November 21. She loves the way she feels when we teach her. She says the things we teach her give her "good goosebumps." :) We were so excited to teach her about the Holy Ghost when she said that! We invited her to church, but she said she got way sick the night before and couldn't make it. We're trying to get her stepmom's home teachers over to give her a blessing. We're not sure if that actually happened yet.
We hope we can keep consistently meeting with her. It seems like that would be the only thing keeping her from reaching her date. I think if we pray about a good fellowshipper for her, we'll have an easier time and keep her safe and progressing. We're meeting with her again on Wednesday, but wanted to stop by tonight to see if she's doing all right.
The other person we had the blessing of teaching this week was Linda A.! We met her at Subway the night Sister McOmber got here, and she kept talking about how she was ready to get clean and get baptized. We scheduled a return appointment for this last Saturday. We watched the Restoration video with her, her daughter, and her daughter's boyfriend, Luis, who was glued to the movie the whole time! She told us it was a really relaxing video and Luis said he really enjoyed it! She had questions about why there were so many Bibles, and she was quite frustrated about it, but it was so amazing to see how teaching her about the Apostasy really helped her understand how the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ really answers those questions.
She wants to work towards November 27 to be baptized. We wanted it to be sooner, but she has a hectic work schedule and apparently she relapsed on cigarettes. Many mighty prayers her direction. I think she's definitely ready to follow the Savior, but I still think she might have a lot of questions about things. Which things, I'm not sure yet, but I'm grateful for the way that planning and the Spirit help us.
It's hard to believe all of this only happened in a week. It's been a jam-packed week of miracles.
So pray for Samantha, Linda, Ed B., and Tanya G. At least for this week. Samantha and Linda are on date for baptism. Ed is struggling to come to church, and we're not going to meet with him until he shows a little more interest (and he's so, so close, too! He just needs to get his rear in gear!). And Tanya is a referral we got this week, and she has been prepared. We just need to get with her. And you know, we need to get people to church. Church attendance is so important, and it's a delicate balance of helping people get there and getting them fellowshippers who will help them get there as well. I wish missionary work were less of a learning process sometimes, but thus is life. We're doing our best. :)
Also, I cut my hair today. There was a whole animal hiding in there. Imagine that.
- Sister Nielsen
P.S. We got stuck in the rain with a broken umbrella. Who says it doesn't rain in this part of Washington?
Halloween!
He will do great things. ;)
Our pretty church in Walla Walla!
THIS COIN IS AS OLD AS THE SAVIOR! What?!
Look at how funny our bishop's family is. Oh my word.
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