Oh the packages and cards and
letters make my day. And I seriously kept all the packages unopened for
Christmas. Crazy because I'm a snoop, but you can ask my trainer, Sister
Partridge. Meeker is wonderful. I'm getting to know the ward alot
faster than I expected. It's not to hard when everyone hugs me every two
seconds.
It's cold... Very cold. -20's. We went caroling one
night, which was a big mistake on my part. It was the coldest night so
far. It was on Wednesday with the youth. We road on a flatbed trailer
with hay on it. It hurt so bad to sing. When you breathed in your nose,
you could feel your nose hairs freezing. My toes were in excruciating
pain because they were so cold. When we got back to the church, Sister
Partridge and I went into the bathroom and put my toes under the water
in the sink. I yelled "turn off the hot water!" Sister Partridge didn't
have ANY hot water on. It was pure cold water burning my toes. It took a
long time to get the pain to go away.
I got warmer boots :) Wool socks, but it's still super cold!
This
week has been crazy! We found 3 new investigators. The standard of
excellence is 2. We were shooting for 6. We really need more. We found
so many referrals though. And we met so many new people. Finding 3
investigators is alot in this small area. Last transfer, Sister
Partridge and her companion only found 1. It's such a small town.
We had a lesson with 2 men from Assembly of God. We
were nervous it would be a Bible bash, so we brought Bishop Isenhour and
his first counselor Brother Harman. It went extremely well. The lesson
was for Justin. He asked for a Book of Mormon at the end. Sister
Partridge said the last time they went he wouldn't accept a Book of
Mormon. Null, Justin's friend who baptized him, is still scared to take a
Book of Mormon, but we have another lesson with them next week. Brother
Harman did a great job answering questions I might have been stumped
on. No contention. The spirit was there.
We taught Tom this week. He talked to us about his
concern of going to church because of feeling judged from past sins. We
taught him Alma 36 which is all about Alma telling his son Helaman his
conversion story. What an amazing use of the Atonement. The spirit was
there. He came to church that Sunday. His newly wife is a member. He was
almost baptized 3 months ago, but suddenly went backwards. I think he
will progress again.
Alot of the husbands here are inactive or a nonmember.
Our investigator Laura is a sweetheart. Her boyfriend is an inactive
member of the church. They have a son, Dillion who is 1. She loves the
idea of the family. She came to church for the first time last week. She
couldn't go this week because Dillion was sick. We need Ed, her
boyfriend, on board for her to be baptized because they need to be
married. He was offended at one time in his youth. He had a traumatic
event happen and people didn't treat him the way they should have.
We felt strong promptings to go to the Taylor's house.
(referrals) They are currently moving, so we went to the new house.
When we got there there were two boys in there twentys working on a
fence. We talked to them and they said they would be there tomorrow. We
left. I regretted not talking to the two boys about the gospel! We did
quickly turned around and went back to talk to them. Thats why we were
prompted to go to the Taylors. We went back and we literally had to
circle the house to find them. We felt like stalkers. We found them and
got their numbers and will visit them soon.
Sister Partridge is AMAZING!!!! She's so fun! And so amazing. She's so directed by the spirit. We both have been!
I cannot wait to skype on christmas!!!!!
-Sister Gampe
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