June 27, 2011

so this week was pretty much amazing. I was expecting it to be a very difficult week becauwse of the baptism this weekend but it was not as bad as any of the other baptisms. it was amazing. Jackie Lee Sturgill got baptized on June 25th, 2011 at 3:00pm and confirmed the next day. It was a great experience. We taught Jackie a couple more lessons this week and they were all easy lessons. He was very excited to get baptized. On Friday night, the interview took place. It was taking a really long time. I was worried that maybe he was not going to pass. We eventually had to knock on the door so it could end. The members who took jackie to the interview had to go and we also had to go because we walked to the church. It takes a five min drive to go to the church but takes an hour to walk to church. Craziness. on the way to the church for the interview we had a very eventful walk. We met a man named C.D. no joke. He told a story and I don't know if I trust this one or not but he said that his older brothers found him at a City Dump and took him to his mother and that is what the mother called him. haha. What a funny man. Then we walked and there is a jehova church called kingdom hall and I guess I said, "I don't really want to tract here" and then sister nelson said "why? it is next to kingdom hall!" She said it really loud and she motioned her arm towards the church. As she finished doing that we looked to our left and we saw people sitting out on their porch. Yikes. They were not smiling either. I was totally not expecting sister nelson to say that and when I saw those people I just busted out laughing. It was so funny. I still laugh at this moment about it. Half in disbelief that sister nelson said that and half at the looks of those peoples faces.

Jackie ended up passing his interview. The next day he got baptized. He brought a friend with him and his name is Michael. He looked promising as maybe a new investigator. We found out that he is already a member and not active. We got pictures with Jackie and then he got into his jumpsuit. We were so nervous that he would not be able to fit into the suit becuase he is so tall. He fit though. Phew. Then he got baptized after a talk that was given. It was wonderful. It is always nice to see the results of your labor. His face was priceless and one that cannot be described. The next day he was confirmed and that was great as well. He feels a little overwhelmed for some reason but I think he is just thinking alot. I hope things will go great still.

Oh. Michael. He flirted with me. Yeah. It was gross and I wonder why i am being cursed with guys flirting with me. Ever since I have moved to Corbin, there have been a lot more ment that flirt with me. I am getting a little annoyed by it. Sometimes it is really funny. Michael was way over the top though. I was nicer than I should have been but he gave me his email address and that was that. It was weird and I probably will not be emailing him. I wanted to say this to him, "I will not email you when I get home because you are not an active member of the church and I have way more higher standards in my future husband and you don't even come close to it." Haha. That would have been very very bold of me to say. I should have said it. haha.

I gave a talk yesterday. Guess what it was all about? Missionary Work. It was perhaps the easiest talk I have ever written. When I got up my voice was shaking so much. I was nervous for some reason. Maybe because there were alot more people out in the congregation than I am used to. Wait til i get home. There are going to be alot more in the congregation. Yikes. When I got up to talk, I ran into a scripture that I wanted to read but I realized I forgot my scriptures and so i said, "I want to read a scripture but I need to go get my scriptures." then I left the pulpit and got my scriptures. It was great. n

So we had a great experience with Willard this week. He has been really stubborn about baptism. This week was different though. He has been able to correct some of the things he has done in the past. That allowed the spirit to be more in his heart. Sister Nelson and I had no idea what else we could do and then the spirit took over this lesson. We talked about the five steps of the gospel. Faith Repentance, Baptism, Holy Ghost, Endure to the end. We told him that his first baptism was different than the one in the church of jesus christ. The first baptism he had faith and then he got baptized but he got baptized in his sins. He was living with someone at the time. He totally skipped repentance. This one would be different beause we would make sure that he was clean and pure. We asked him what he thought about that. He said, "you could be right." then we waited for a couple seconds, maybe 10, and then he pipes up and says," Acutally, I know you are right." We got a bright smile on our face and we were both thinking the same thing. "we have already asked him to be bapitzed so many times should we do so now?" Then he said, "the spirit told me." Then we jumped on the opportunity and asked him to be baptized. He said yes!!! He wants to be baptized on the 9th of July!!! Woohoo!!!. I am excited for this one.

Judy Jones has been making great strides as well this week. She knows that this is christ's church. She is going to be baptized this weekend, (july 2nd). We will have had three baptisms in a row. Not on the same week. Why? everyone is special. well, the real reason is because we didn't know when Jackie would be moving and so he needed to get baptized as soon as he could, judy wanted us to for sure be there for her baptism, and willard wants to make sure he is out of his situation so he wanted the 9th. It is going to be great. The weeks are going by fast and they are fun. :) So, yeah. We need more solid people to teach now. We don't really have that many elect people anymore. We shall search for them somehow.

I don't really have anything else to say really. I have a crazy awesome shoe tan though. It will be gone by the winter so you won't be able to see it but it is cool. I love you all very very much. Love amanda