December 15, 2014

Well things are going great here!  We had a great lesson with brother Gidley about patriarchal blessings. He is so excited to be baptized. He's been investigating for 13 years and in contact with the church for 30. Now is a good time for that family! I'm sure the main key was bringing in the temple and covenants importance. That and a few others are the bright side. Otherwise, people have been so rude and try to bible bash us any time we go somewhere new. It's so funny because I can tell exactly who is going to come up to me and try to bash. I know the process so well I can pretty much think ahead and predict everything they are going to say. We were tracting handing out "mr krugers christmas" and a catholic lady opened the door and looked at my nametag. As soon as she saw we were "mormons" she told us....well I won't go into detail, but I couldn't think of a nastier woman than her after that. I just politely told her that Catholics are supposed to be Christlike and non contentious as we left. She was pretty silent and embarrassed after that. (proverbs 21: 9 and 19)

We saw the new 2015 Z06 Corvette and stopped to talk to the guy. That was great when he came out. He even showed me the car! Justin loved it

After a dinner appointment, the people gave us some cookies and sent us on our way after teaching the restoration. We went to a lady's house named Jennifer. She was the lady I felt inspiration to stop and go talk to her in her garage. Her kids came up to the door and said "what do you want?" I pulled out the cookies and said "WE ARE HERE TO GIVE YOU GUYS COOKIES!" So of course they started calling for their mom. She was having a terrible night and came running around the corner yelling "go away! Tonight is not a good night I'm in a bad mood!". Well after some sweet talking and offering the cookies, she calmed right down. We had a great conversation and shared a spiritual message that made her cry. She was very kind and we got a return appointment. Christmas Spirit! Those kids remind me of the mickelson kids that don't have it so good.

On our way back, we were driving with a ward member and saw a school bus sideways in a ditch. We jumped out and ran up to it. I was able to help some kids out and hold their hands as we walked them to a safe zone. They were all crying, but it made me think of something - We're representitives of Jesus Christ so just as Jesus loves and comforts children, we were able to do the same thing. Everyone was fine and the whole line of cars stepped up and offered all the kids rides home. It was actually a church bus taking kids from the church home. 

So I do get to video call you guys! 10AM your time on christmas day!

Love you all!