We
have seen so many blessings this week! For one, our amazing gator
(Floridian for investigator), Caitlin, brought her IDENTICAL TWIN to a
lesson!!!!!!!!!! Imagine an elect investigator and cloning that
investigator and you get Caitlin and Kristen! I love these girls so so
much! We taught the Restoration to Kristen this week... or rather
Caitlin pretty much taught her sister and we helped clarify a few
things. It was beautiful! AND we weren't able to get a member to go
with us to the lesson, but YSA Elder's gator came and bore her
testimony. Yes, the twins are identical, and yes, we can tell them
apart. (I knew ya'll would ask :) )
We got permission from President Craig to continue
teaching Pete. On Saturday we served Pete again cleaning up the yard. I
thought it was funny Dad was just writing me about pruning the apple
trees and then I get to help prune a palm tree... more or less... The
Elders and Pete chopped off the old leaves and I dragged them off to the
road. The funniest moment was when Sister Hale pulled this huge piece
of plywood out of the dirt and swarms of cockroaches came scampering
out. Sister Hale started singing, "Come my little friends as we sing
our happy working song." We all about died laughing! And we found a
snake, and carpenter ants... all sorts of fun stuff! Pete took care of
the snake with a machete.
One more miracle. We were visiting a less active YSA
brother and an older man answered the door. He said the brother we were
looking for didn't live there and started asking about our church.
When we asked what church he went to he said, "Mormon." He was joking
with us the whole time and the brother we were looking for was actually
there. He told us this brother is very shy and probably wouldn't come
talk to us. Then his older son came to visit. The man sent his five
year old grand daughter in to get the YSA brother. Surprisingly he came
out! I think it helped that this sweet girl went to invite him out. We
were able to talk to him and he opened up a lot more than his parents
thought he would. As we were leaving. the father came out and waved us
back. As we were talking, we saw lights floating in the sky--they were
lanterns! Like the ones on Tangled! They brought the whole family out
to see them! With that stall we were able to stay long enough to talk
to this brother's parents and found out this brother had been through a
traumatic experience and they were so surprised he even talked to us.
Both of his parents began to cry as they thanked us for coming by, and
his mother gave us huge hugs. We will definitely have to see what else
we can do to help this brother open up.
Finally, I
have to brag about Jacob for a minute! He was completely inactive when
we first got here and now he is coming to church every week! He gives
our investigators rides! He even makes institute a priority and makes
comments every week! Seeing his progression back on the gospel path is
amazing! It makes me so happy!
I hope ya'll have a blessed week!
I love all ya'll!!! (Look how good I'm getting with the mission language!)
Sister Murray
PS Sister Chappell, will now be serving with us, so we are a threesome.
