January 17, 2011

Well, this week sure has been a week. I can't remember all that has
happened but I will try to write the exciting things....and maybe the
not so exciting things.

Sister goodman has been doing a bit better. On tuesday, we went to the
doctor and spent 3 hours there! It was a crazy long visit. I didn't
much like it. I did get a lot of reading done in the Bible though so
that was good.

On Thursday night I got to attend a visitation for a member's husband
who passed away. My second funeral on my mission. The member's name is
Valerie Barnett. She was such a rock. She was comforting those around
her. She knows the plan and that helped her alot. The guy who died is
Mike. He was only 55 years old. That is so young. I guess he had a
kidney transplant a little while ago and then all of a sudden he had
something go wrong. Later, he went into a coma. The doctors were
trying to help him. I guess they drug their feet because Valerie said
that Mike did not have to die. That was pretty sad. She has no idea
why he passed away. He just did I guess. But on friday was the funeral
service. There were three churches and it was cool because all three
churches had something to do with the funeral. Brother Roberts gave a
wonderful talk. I felt the spirit strong when he talked and some
people were nudging each other while he talked. What they said, I
don't know. He did make a difference though.

Friday afternoon we went to exchanges with some other sisters. Sister
Tanner came here to beattyville and I went with sister Klefsky to
corbin. It was fun. Sis. K is a different person. She was cool though.
I learned how to love people more. It was different with her because
she has had a hard life. She is also very slow when it comes to
getting things done. We had a good time though going to people's
houses. WE went to Sherry's house. She is an investigator. She is so
funny. She has fibromyalgia(i forgot how to spell that) and i got to
do her some service and rub her hands for her. She was very
appreciative of that. She taught us what the difference between Grace
and Mercy were. I got a little confused but I think I got it for the
most part. Then the next day we tracted a bit and tried to find some
houses. They had a GPS, which is so nice to have, and we went to one
house. When we got there though, there was no house at all. It just
got up and left. haha.

Saturday was a really good day but nervous day. So, we were not able
to see steve this past week. On monday night he called and said he had
to cancel for tuesday morning and that made us sad and he said he had
no more minutes on his phone. So we were in the dark as to what to do.
We didn't know where he lived and we couldn't call him. So we went a
couple days to call him. Then we called him thursday friday and
satureday. We just didn't know what to do. We were scared that he
would not be interested anymore. But it all good now. He called
saturday and said he had minutes on his phone and that he would like
to meet with us on sunday night. So sunday night we are there at 6:30
the time scheduled, and we wait and wait and wait. I am getting pretty
nervous. I was thinking that maybe he was just running a bit behind.
But then a couple a degrees in temperature cooler, and 15 min later I
was about to call him. Then we get a phone call from him. He explained
his situation. He said that he went out to see a house his friend was
buying and that he had no cell service out there to call us because it
was taking longer than he thought it would. Later he said that he was
just pacing back and forth wanting them to get done because he wanted
to meet with us. We ended up waiting for him to get to DQ and then we
told him to follow us to the Lloyds. We wanted to watch the
restoration movie with him. SO we did and it was such a great lesson.
He felt the spirit so strongly. I only wish it was the right time to
ask him if he would be baptized. But I feel that the next lesson would
be better for that. So on wedenesday we will have extended that
commitment. He is just so so so so so elect. He is great!

Also on saturday something surprising happened. It is transfers
tomorrow so we were getting transfer calls. We were patiently waiting
and when we got home from exchanges, I look at the phone and saw that
we missed a call from sister glende. I though it was for sister
goodman. There was a message on the phone so I listened to it and all
of a sudden, to my surprise I hear presdient glende's voice. I almost
dropped the phone and my heart was racing. The only reason why
president would call on transfer call day is when someone is training.
I know what he wanted. I called him and he talked to me and said that
I would be training in Beattyville. Sister goodman is going to a new
sister area in charlestown KY. At first I got a bit scared because I
am training but now I am exciting. i believe I will be learning alot
about myself and learning how to be a good leader. :) Wish me luck.

So, that is all that really happened this week. It has been a pretty
crazy slow yet fast week. I love you all. I hope you are doing great.
I just want to say Happy Birthday to Allison Lee on the
18th..tomorrow. and HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!! Mom, did you know that I am
turning 22 this year and your birthday is on the 22nd? Cool huh? :) I
love you. Have a great week. Get better Grandpa Ryan.

Amanda