HEY FAMILY!!!
I'm super happy things there are going well! The puppy looks adorable, and it sounds like you guys
are having a lot of fun there at home. I cannot believe you have not been to the lake yet. It's like halfway
through July--what is going on? Mom, have you found any new bike riding trails or other fun things?
Now to answer your questions:
Baptism challenges? This week we had a ton of success with almost all of our investigators, except none
of them went to church... So we have to move all of their baptism dates so they can come to church three
times. But besides that, everything with our investigators is going well. The members here are interesting:
they always tell us to call them up so we can go teach with them, but when we do call, they never can
(or they don't answer). But thats ok, we are going to keep trying to teach with members whenever we can.
The members give us lunch everyday though, so I'm cool with them. The only problem is they like to give us
A TON of food, and sometimes get offended when we don't eat two servings. Lately, I've been feeling
healthy, except for last night: I had really bad diarrhea and vomiting. At about 3 in the morning, I experienced
what is called a "Double Dragon", which is when the two happen at the same time...so that hurt. But right
now I feel way better, I'm just scared I will have to go do an emergency bathroom break at some point. Wish
me luck. We do not have bikes in this area (they are apparently very rare) so we pretty much just walk
everywhere. But I don't mind, the area isn't too big. Last night we had a VERY spiritual experience: we went
against plans and visited a menos activo, part member family just because we felt we should. When were
outside their door, I felt that we should watch a certain mormon message video (Mens Hearts Shall Fail Them.
It's my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMwKxmTLaCs. When we walked in, they immediately
asked for a blessing for their sick baby, then went on to tell us about a large numbers of problems and trials
they are currently passing through. Then we watched the video, and literally every point of the video had to
do with what they were feeling. After a quick discussion, we ended up doing a really spiritual prayer with
everyone, and even got a nonmember involved with everything. In the end, we got to set up a future visit
with just the nonmembers because they saw the effect the blessing and the video had on the family. It was
way cool!
