August 30, 2010

Good morning to everyone. I don' t really have that much to write today. It has been a great week though. We are pushing strong and are working hard. We got a new investigator and he has lots of mis-conceptions of this church. Lots and lots. We told him to make a list of things that he has questions about and I am a little nervous about how many questions there are going to be. What plays in my mind is seeing a scroll and having that scroll be 10 feet long and being full of questions. There are probably not that many questions but there are alot. Wish us luck in trying to clear up and answer questions. :)

We have a "golden" door approach. We go to the door and ask people this question. "Why do you think that Jesus Christ was baptized?" Then they think about it and give us either a really good answer or a bad answer. One guy was funny. We asked that question and another question after and the only response he would give is "to show us the way?" obviously he was not interested. With the door approach, we got maybe someone interested and that one investigator up above. It is pretty exciting.

I told you I would tell of the differences I see in a Branch and a Ward.
Branch:
Very very small
Hardly any children
The church is maybe the size of the chapel and gym.
The children stand out when they talk because the church is so small
There can be more judgemental people
Everyone has at least two or more callings
sometimes there is no one to play the piano so I get to do it.
Ward:
Very very big
Big building
Lots of children
There is always someone who can play the piano.
When the kids are noisy you can't really tell and noone turns around and looks at the children making the noise.

This is a cute story. We were going out of our house and we see this cute little 4 year old girl playing in the grass of our nieghbors house. We don't know where she came from. She took us by surprised and asked us, "where are you going?" We said, "To visit some friends." She said, "Oh that is cool. I am just smoothing out this person grass." I said, "That is fun." I get in the car and leave the door open and Sister Graham is about to get in the car and the girl starts talking again. This time she said, "Bye. I love you." I learned alot about love that day. You should always love unconditionally and it does not matter who the person is you still should love them no matter what they do. I got my answer to a prayer. I asked HF this..."Do you love Satan even though he has took away so many of your children and he is doing evil things?" I knew the answer I thought but now I know the answer.

Well, time is short and I have to get going. I love you all very very very very much. Stay strong and be steadfast in everything that you do.

Love Amanda