Hey Everyone!
Well this
week hasn't been super eventful. To start with yes Mom I love the GPS it is
awesome, it gets us everywhere we need to go.
We have named it “Brenda”. There
is a great couple missionary from Bountiful they are the Meachams and they let
us use their washer and dryer since we don’t have one. Today they took us to lunch at a place called
“Cheddars” it was really good I think Utah needs a “Cheddars” ! I would send
more pictures but there really isn’t anything super interesting to take
pictures of, there are lots of trees!! I
will try and do better. Dad that is cool
that Jimmy Johnson won his 6th NASCAR title! College football is the big thing here and
Tonks sounds Crazy, I need a picture so I can see how big she is getting. I am totally saving those dates in my
Calendar when I get home to go hunting!
Elder Heiner who was one of our Zone Leaders was into hunting but he
would not believe me at all when I said I hunted to. ( I know I just don’t have that Killer Look).
We have gotten a few new investigators this last week however none of them are
actually in our area! We are going to visit elevated Kidney level lady tonight
and I will be sure and remind her of the hydration thing and the DASH diet. I am trying to help her with her nutrition
because they want her to lose weight for her hypertension. It’s hard with these super southern people
though and the “Fried Everything diet”. Another investigator is a girl the elders gave
us because we needed someone to teach and they didn't have anyone to go visit
her with them and they can't meet just the three of them. She turned out to be
pretty solid and she came to church this last week she really enjoyed it and
loved the Lorenzo Snow lesson on Helping others, she really liked the Gospel
principles class and she fell in love with the Manual and so we gave it to her,
she was so Happy! We have taught her three times and she accepted to be baptized
so she is pretty awesome. Then we got this referral from a guy in Aiken and he
wanted us to go visit his sister. She basically just wants to be baptized
because I guess she saw how big of a change her brother made in his life when
he joined the church and she wants to make that kind of change in her life. She
is pretty awesome. She also has two kids, a girl who is ten and a boy who is
almost thirteen. We are going to meet with the whole family tonight so
hopefully it goes well and we can commit them all to baptism! She seemed really
excited when we talked about the priesthood and how after her son is baptized
he can get the priesthood. The girl who we have been having trouble with, K, we
recommitted her to be baptized Dec. 7 so hopefully everything goes well. We are
going over there tonight and I think we really need to focus on what baptism
really means and on having her find her own faith because that is something she
has been a little bit reluctant to do. She really needs to pray and she won’t. The Youth in this ward are super awesome and
they have continually tried to fellowship her and have her to activities but
she keeps pushing them away. Her mom is being supportive of her but she doesn't
think she is really going to go through with the baptism so it's still kind of
a difficult situation so everyone just keep her in your prayers! Oh and next
week is transfers and I'm pretty sure I'm not going anywhere but just don't
send me anything this week like after Thursday because if I do get transferred
I won't get it. I will know by next Monday if I am leaving or not though. I
can't believe I have been here for almost one whole transfer! Crazy! I’m pretty
sure I won’t be transferred though and neither should my companion Sis. Tevi as
she is my trainer and I have to be trained for 12 weeks. We get along good and keep the bad days
bearable by joking that even though no one wants to hear what we have to say
now we will get to teach them again in the Spirit World! My companion didn't feel good on Saturday and
she looked terrible so I wouldn't let her go out because if she knocked on my
door and wanted to teach me something, with the way she was looking I would
have sent her away. She has a Dr.’s appt on Wed. with the recommended Dr. of
our area but if she still continues to not feel well we sure appreciate the
information on that clinic from Meredith and will seek a second opinion. It is pretty great to know someone from
around here who is in Utah that can give good information on important things
like Doctors. We had some really good
days this week though. We spent a lot of time with one of the members, Sis. Lee
and she is super awesome! She is in the relief society presidency and she is
just a goer and she will drive us around when we are low on miles and she goes
to lessons with us and she is a convert so she always gives really great
insights to our lessons. She is about 56 and grew up in the Chicago area but
spend a lot of time living in Las Vegas, she has grown children from a first marriage
some of them are active some are not.
Her husband is really great also.
Sad thing though she has MS but she is like a second Mom and I think you
two would really hit it off! I just love her! We are still just trying to find people to
teach who are in our area! Last week we met this really awesome older couple
who had just been to SLC and done the tour of temple square with the
missionaries and they loved the tour and loved everything about the temple and
they thought it was so cool that we knocked into them right after that happened
so hopefully things go well with them! They were going out of town so we
haven't been able to teach them but we are going to call today and hopefully
set up a time. They are about the most promising sounding people we have
contacted. One of our investigators said
she wants to be baptized but won’t until her Dad dies, not sure when that is
going to be. I do feel strongly and so does my companion that we need to have a
missionary fireside to help jump start missionary work here because people just
need a reminder of why we are all here and that we are all Heavenly Father’s
children. We were blessed to have the gospel in our lives and it’s our
responsibility to share it with others, not necessarily that we are going to
convert people right away but we are just planting the seeds. We wanted to challenge
members of the ward to fast and pray for
missionary work and missionary opportunities.
I was thinking a good idea to motivate people to come would be to have
each group of missionaries do a short visit to the members in their area and
tell them about the activity and ask their family to come. This encouragement and reminding could be
once a week about three weeks before the fireside. The Bishop of our ward (who is a convert)
thinks this is a great idea, so that is a good start. At one time I think our Zone Leaders Elder
Huntsman and Elder Heiner would have been supportive but they were both
transferred last week. At this time we
just have our District Leader who is quite reluctant as he feels that so many
things could go wrong and that it is to big of an undertaking for just our
little district of 6. We are respectful of his worries and will
continue to pray (possibly a gift of some vegemite might help him). He is a convert at the age of 14 and he may
have had some past experience that has caused him to be wary of this kind of
Fireside not sure. If this Fireside takes place you can bet there will be
refreshments, Food is a must at these things!
I made the “Super Chocolate Chip cookie Recipe” for our District meeting
and I think the poor Elders were going to propose on the spot! (good grief).
Thanksgiving will be good, the
Galans are a great family their kids are 9,7 and 2 and are very
entertaining. I got Lynnettes Letter she
had quite an adventure and I am glad how well she did, so sorry Lynnette but
now you are going riding with me! How is
Melissa doing I miss our lunch chats at the hospital cafeteria. Oh we did have one lady tell us it wasn't safe
to be knocking on peoples doors as we were knocking at 3:30 in the afternoon so
that was kind of funny. I looked at my car and it does not have a tape deck or
a small jack in the dash, just a CD player so hopefully that helps with the
decision on what kind of adaptor I need.
Mom how did you know that I finished Jesus the Christ? You know me to
well that I can read an 800 page book as well as do my daily missionary work
and scripture study and other responsibilities, but I loved that book it gives
great insight to the gospel. I don’t
know if I am allowed to have other books, so I am going to read it again
slowly. Between that book and reading
and studying the Book of Mormon it has really helped me in every aspect of missionary
work and how missionary work and being the instrument of god and teaching with
the spirit! As I have had the opportunity to teach some special investigators
this week it is so great when you start
teaching our simple gospel principles and then you see a spark come into the
eyes and it is like we are not even really teaching them its more of just
reminding them of something they forgot.
It’s really awesome! Makes all the hard times worth it.(Uncle Dan you are so right, I was getting super discouraged at being rejected and hollered at repeatedly) It is to bad
that when the light of the gospel comes into their lives Satan works twice as
hard to tear down their faith and in the beginning it is so Fragile.
I love you all and I am working on
writing Grandma and Grandpa a letter, there are some very spunky old people in
this area and I enjoy getting to know them.
How is Gary? Have you met the
girl who is doing his stall? Give him
hugs for me! I hope you all have a great
week! I love you all and thanks for everyone's support!
Love,
Sister Price
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