Wow. What a week it has been. But today, was the best ever!!!! Today we had a meeting with a guy named Steve Gaye. (don't laugh at the name). Here is the experience. Yesterday we went to go grocery shop for a lady who needed financial help. We got permission from the Branch President so I figured it would be alright. We went and holy smokes. we were walking along the meat section and I said hi to this man (steve) and left it at that. But somehow we got to talking more to each other. Well, a five minute conversation ended up turning into an appoinment with him the next morning!!! I was so excited. I woke up this morning with a pounding headache right behind my eye and I was just saying, "I am going out still" and I forced myself to get ready even though all I wanted to do was to lay down. We went to Dairy Queen, where we planned to meet, and I was not all that scared of him canceling. We got there and he was there. We sat down in a booth and started talking. I asked how he was and he said good and that he is on day three of no smoking! So, we get to know him more and find out that he wants to find his way and that he wants to get closer to god. I asked him why he talked to us and he said that he felt a good spirit about us. He just felt good. We taught the restortaion lesson and it went great. He was saying that things were making sense to him. He was agreeing and the best part was this. "So, what do I do when I feel the spirit while reading the book of mormon? What happens next?" ........momentary pause.........what did he say? Yeah, he is golden. I extended a soft baptismal commitment and he accepted. I explained that baptism in this church is great and that he was acting in faith when baptized in the baptist church but he would not have to be baptized again after being baptized into theis church. He was so excited. He felt the spirit. I felt the spirit. We finally have a committed investigator and it feels great! We have an appointment with him on friday. Pray for him please. :)
This week I said something pretty funny and it made sister goodman burst out laughing. Which was good because she was a bit discouraged. I was looking at a car and noticed it had a flat tire. So I said, "That tire sure has a flat car." I totally did not mean to say that. It was very funny. I don't make sense sometimes but that is just what make me, me.
Are you ready to laugh at me even more? Brace yourselves. So, just to give you a little insight about this experience, remember that when you place an egg in your hand the PROPER way you can squeeze it as hard as you can and it will not break. (You can try it if you want). So, I had to give a little doctine thing in District Meeting and I decided to use an analogy with squeezing the egg. It was to represent how much faith they had in me that I would not break the egg. Then I was going to relate it to how much faith they would have in the savior if he were to squeeze the egg. Well, I tried it the first time and it did not break. Then the elders told me to try in again and I guess I did not put it into my hand the right way or it may have slipped. I don't know what happened. Another elder told me to use both hands and so I squeezed with both hands. I tried it before and it did not break. But this time...haha...hahaha....I squeezed it with both hand and all of a sudden I hear a pop, splatter, gasp, laughter. Then I felt all the gooey insides of the egg! The egg broke on me!!! i could not believe it. I had no idea what to do. That was not really the plan. The egg went so far too. It just shot maybe four feet and landed on an elders jacket and the floor and the chairs. It was everywhere. I was so embarrassed and I just stood there. I didn't know what to do. I just could not believe that just happened. After a little while, another elder came back in with paper towels and I remembered I had papertowels as wel and I started cleaning my hands off. then I started cleaning the floor. All I really wanted to do was curl up behind the podium and laugh/cry. Everyone was laughing which was worse but it truely was funny. I just couldn't laugh at that moment. Oh man. Never again will I use that object lesson and I will never look at an egg the same way. :)
Later that day we had a great experience. we were walking the isles of Walmart to get our groceries. This lady all of a sudden grabs my wrist and asks me, where are you serving? I was startled by that but then I realized that she was a member (walmart is out of our area). We talked to her for a while and then did the rest of our grocery shopping. We did find out that her daughter is serving in Mesa, Arizona which was cool. I believe she is in Pima right now on an indian resevoir. Sister Christiansen is her name. But we go to check out and I am about to pay for my grocieries and all of a sudden she appears again and says, "Can I please pay for your groceries?" I kind of laughed in my head and then I said, "thankyou but you don't have to do that." Then she said, "oh please? I don't get to pay for emily's (her daughter) groceries and I would love to do that right now." So, we ended up letting her pay for the groceries. I was so thankful for her because I didn't really have all that much money on my grocery card and I was going to pay a little bit on my card from home. I really didn't want to do that so for her to pay for the groceries was pretty much amazing. We had a blessing given to us. The best thing about it as well is that she is going to come to beattyville and talk in church. I am excited to see her again.
Also, church. We had 35 people at church!!! 85% of the congregation were recent converts. That was great. I am very excited and I just want winter to be over so more people get to come to church.
There were a couple other things I wanted to say but I can't remember them and i have to get going. I love you all though very much. Stay cool and remember that you are all a child of god who love you.
Amanda
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