March 24, 2010

Hi There!

So I was going to put some of Bro. P's pictures on here, but you've already seen them. I love that family so much! They are close to my heart! Little N. is so cute! I play dolls with her and such. We talk about Dora.... I love it!

OK...so there are some questions I am supposed to find the answers to.....1- Where is J. serving? The P.'s are from Canada and would like to know. I have been forgetting to ask for weeks!

Thank you all so much for the birthday wishes and gifts and cards and everything else! My birthday was good! Well, I did get sick from tracting in the rain, but not too bad. I was sick for my birthday potatoes, but I was able to smell how good they probably tasted...if that makes sense! haha....

so funny story....I talk in my sleep. Not just talk, but I've been teaching lessons. Apparently, the other day I said, "Well, have you been reading?!?!" It even woke me up kind of instead of me just sleeping through it. Oh, and I was talking to ya'll one night because I was laughing, according to S.W. Poor girl has to listen to me talk all day and all night!

We have been teaching families lately. It is great!

A really cool experience happened the other day. We were trying someone on our potentials list. We were knocking on her door when she pulled up. She had had a hard day, as we could tell. She was on a bluetooth phone talking as she got out. We found out from that that she had someone close to her die within the last few weeks and that an 8 year old friend just got cancer and had 6 months to live.
When she got off the phone she was not in the mood to listen. We asked if we could come in and talk to her. She said no, she was busy and had to go talk to her daughter about some things. We asked if we could sing a song. We sang her "did you think to pray." After the song, we talked about the Plan of Salvation. We asked her if she wanted us to come share with her. She told us, "yeah, come in, I want to know what ya'll have to say!" We taught her the Plan of Salvation. She was super excited about it. She is planning on coming to church on Sunday. We told her she could follow us to church. It will add about 10 miles to our daily total, but it is worth it!

I've never had to work so hard with such little numbers results. We are doing a lot of good though. We see miracles unfold everyday. We sing many songs to people. S.W. didn't know she was going to be singing so much outside of church! Then again, neither did I. Singing just has such an amazing power to bring the Spirit so quickly! You know how I don't like to sing really, but I am learning to enjoy it. I love seeing people smile. :D We sang to a woman on the porch just the other day and she started crying and wanted to give us hugs. I love it!

Where we are in the city we see a lot of hispanic workers in people's yards. I had three conversations in Spanish yesterday. I say conversations...ha! We know how my spanish isn't very good. The Spirit compensates for that I think. I need to study/learn how to say more about the church so I can help the Elders out more.

We get to go to the Temple tomorrow! YAY! I am super excited! It is about an hour away...

I have loved this week! I've been feeling so loved! Everyone has been thinking of me! I guess that is what happens on my birthday!

So the T. family cooked my potatoes for my birthday. Then, they asked if I could bring some for the next day because they were feeding us again. They wanted me to cook them for them. I made some hashbrowns. They were so excited over them! I must be a good cook. Well, it helps when I am working with UTAH Potatoes! They are simply the best! I have enjoyed them so so so so much! Thank you! :D :D

The apple tree is gone? How plain! :( Are you going to replace it with anything? I haven't really taken any pictures this week I don't think. I have my camera and such ready though.....( We tore out the apple tree just outside the back door)

I am listening to the cd that B. and V. sent me. I am feeling lazy right now so that is why I'm not really capitalizing things.

N. is still learning. She is asking us to find more proof from the Bible so she can prove it to her husband. She loves what we teach. She is definitely a searcher and is ready for the gospel. She is working on her husband now.

I can't think of anything else and I'm sick of being on a computer. Is that terrible?

Kelly is not going to be very happy because she isn't going to get a long email. Can you take her wrath for me. ;)

I love you!

Jackie