It looks like I have a lot of congratulitudes to give! Goooooooo
Brittany! Serving the Lord is the best! It'll be fun for you and Hailey to be
able to see each other in the MTC. Neither of you are going to the BEST mission
in the world, which is the Oregon Eugene, but you're both going to great places.
You'll love the east coast! When's the report date and what's the actual
mission name?
However fam, the white handbook states that, "Visits from family members,
friends, and acquaintances are against Church policy." So you won't be able to
visit either of these lovely sister-missionaries-to-be, but it's cool that
they're nearby.
Then I can hardly believe that there's another Arias! That's crazy!
Congregations Nenna and Juan! I can't wait to meet Ada (will she be at all
like Eden???). Keep me updated on the two distant Arias children. In fact,
Nenna you should e-mail sometime. And mom you should have all the Arias
children write me letters!
I'm glad you're involved in so many fun homeschooley things. It sounds
fun.
So about me, no Gale and Larry aren't true investigators. They mostly just
came to church because they're nice. But two days ago we talked to Martha who
is an investigator we had been really excited about teaching in the past, but
she sent us a text saying she was really busy and we needed to let her contact
us when she was ready. So we hadn't talked to her for like four weeks, and we
just decided to stop by. She was there and we set up a time to meet with her
like nothing had happened! It was a nice little miracle. President Young came
and met Karin, which was pretty nice of him. He says she just needs time and
some strong friends in the ward and she'll choose to be baptized herself. It's
too bad that we haven't had any baptisms yet, but good things are happening and
we'll be doing all we can to help our investigators to progress to baptism.
There's also a less-active couple, the Ridderbusches, we've been visiting who
are pretty awesome. We hadn't really broached the
will-you-let-us-teach-you-the-lessons question with them, but they had us over
for dinner last week and Bro. Ridderbusch out of nowhere asked us if we could
walk with them and their dogs every saturday morning and teach them the lessons.
Did I mention that everyone and their dog has dogs in Oregon? Everyone. But
we were pretty super happy about that.
As to progressing investigators, we actually didn't count anyone as
progressing this week because no one came to church! But Karin is still strong,
we're meeting with Autumn still, Stephanie too, Martha came back, there's
another lady by the name of Linda we're teaching, Ryan is sort of non-existent
but one of these days we'll get in contact with him, teach him the first three
lessons and commit him to baptism, we've been sort of teaching a woman named
Rachael but her and her house have been sick, We found a new lady named Laury(?)
who we haven't been able to teach yet, oh and there's a 13 yr. old girl named
Ashley who's been attending church with a family in the ward and her mother has
given us her consent to teach Ashley and her sisters the lessons and her and her
husband may sit in too. Right now we're trying to see how much of the family
we'll be able to meet with, but there are five or six families in our ward who
are somehow connected to this family so there will be a lot of support in
bringing them into the fold. :D That's pretty much it.
Yeah my life is pretty great right now. I'm still coughing up a storm but
I feel all better aside from that. The ward members take good care of us, and
we've been teaching quite a few people. Oregon is beauteous and it's really
nice now that it's gotten warmer, I can't wait for summer. :3 I hope you all
have a happy Valentine's day, remember that my love fer all'yall is truer than
stuff.
Lovely,
Elder Georgia
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