July 18, 2011

hello! This week was a pretty good week. It was really strange to not have a baptism this weekend. Maybe in a couple weeks we will have a couple more baptisms. That challenge of 5 baptism dates, mom, is going to be a real challenge but it can happen. Just have to have lots of faith and prayers. Not much has really happened this week. We got our car back on tuesday. The alternator was broke and the battery was dead. On tuesday we could not find anyone to give us a ride to the car shop so we decided to walk it. It ended up being a 2 mile walk and it was not as hot as it was on monday and it only took 45 to walk it. We were walking with purpose. :) I am very very glad to have the car back.

We met with Judy Jones' mom this week. She is becoming more and more interested. She will be baptized as soon as she stops her coffee drinking and gain a testimony about that. We want to teach her more than we are able to. She lives too far away.

We were finally able to meet with Kendra this week. We have been trying to discern her needs and how dedicated she really is. She is not really all that dedicated though. We asked her how her reading is going in the book of mormon and she says it is going good and then she attempts to tell us what is going on. She says, "I think it is about a guy named Aprhomani and he is trying to tell us how bad being wicked is." We just smiled and said, "um, not quite." It reality she was totally wrong. Haha. She can't fool us. :) when we were talking, she was smoking and the smoke was going right into my face so I felt like a smoker. It was so hard to breathe. She got up and left for a couple seconds and I turned over to sister nelson and I said, "How is that smoking going for you?"

We had a scare of LICE. we were visiting this part member family and they do not live in the cleanest inviroment. they have dogs that get let out and then brought back into the house and I am sure that there are a million of fleas everywhere. I have been bitten by fleas before so I was not too concerned for that. We left and the next night we get a phone call from Bishop telling us that they have lice! The little girl has lice and i touched her hair to feel it because I wanted to. It was just a couple seconds though. The mom has lice too and I gave her a hug. And I guess the dog has lice and we played with the dog. Sister nelson more than me. We were sooo concerned about this. We really didn't want to have lice. But it has been a couple days and we do not have lice thankgoodness. We will not be visiting them for a while. :)

We went tracting and had a good experience...or not. This lady come out of her house and shut the door and then she looked at our tags. We had not said anything just How are you? She looked at our tags and then looked a bit scared and said, "the church of jesus christ of latterday saints? no thankyou. I am not interested." then she went back inside quickly. I wanted to say why not but she shut the door too quickly.

The last thing that happened that I think is worth mentioning is that we got hit on by a person that was very much high on pills. We were talking to a guy outside of these apartments and this drunk guy is in his car with the door opened and he starts to say, "do you want to know what I think?" We stated what he thought and pointed to a plan of salvation tattoo on his arm. That was pretty unusual to hear someone say the plan of salvation that is not of our faith. Sister nelson goes to talk to him for a little bit and he asked her to date him. She politely says no. He leaves for a while and comes back and says, "Do you want to know what song I really like? Itzy Bitzy Spider." he then proceeds to sing us the song. hahaha. it was so funny. He then leaves but keeps yelling to us trying to get us to go out with him. crazy drug people.

anyway. That is pretty much it. :)
have a great fantastic week. :) Sister Amanda Ralph