Brrrr. It's getting cold outside. And there's no snow here. Just ICE. And while we're on the topic of crazy weather, we received a tornado watch warning and so we made arrangements with our bishop to call us if anything dangerous was going to happen. But no worries! No tornado danger here. Just a lot of really loud wind.
Karyn went on a cruise with her family for a whole week (it's just so casual) but right before she left, she had us come over twice and help her pick her outfits whilst reading to her from the children's Book of Mormon. We invited her to be baptized and talked with her about setting baptism as a goal.
Also, we were finally able to teach Lily a lesson! We taught her in Sister Chua's home with Brother Perry because both of hem speak her native language. She has a lot of reservations but is wanting to exercise her faith and just see where "being a Mormon" will take her. Lily has been consistently coming to church for 5 weeks! We were able to help her work through some of her family concerns. She will be a brave pioneer to her family members, and we helped her realize that God has called her to be an example to her loved ones. Doctrinally, she's pretty sound. She expressed that the Great Apostasy is her missing link (Catholics don't believe the Priesthood chain was ever broken) and now everything is "as clear as water". It was a very exciting lesson!! :D and...we set a baptismal date!! She wants to be baptized on her birthday, December 30th!!! Yay!!! It's a little late, but talk about a white Christmas!!! To be honest, I don't know if that's actually going to happen. Her actual baptism will probably happen in January. But for now, the 30th is a goal that she's set for herself and it'll be a good one to work on achieving.
It's so fascinating to see how the Lord times everything. When we first got here, we had 2 investigators, Jonathan and Kyle, who we taught several times a week, but suddenly were unable to contact as soon as we met Karyn and Lily. We ended up spending almost every day at Karyn'a home and were unable to teach Lily, even though she was coming to church regularly, because her schedule and work just wouldn't allow her to have time to sit down and listen to the discussions. And now that Karyn is on her cruise for a week, Lily's schedule suddenly opened up and we've arranged to teach her four more times this upcoming week, in preparation for her baptism!
In the midst of all this, we were emergency employed by Elder Montgomery to bring in another group of brand new RAV-4s, all the way from Madison. On the way back, we all got separated and the free-way traffic was super crazy! But thanks to wonderful GPS's, we all got back to the mission office safely. Driving new cars doesn't get old:)
Merry Christmas everyone!
Sister Ririe
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We woke up and the truck was iced over!!!
2. At the ward Christmas breakfast, with our investigator, Lily! |
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| We visited the Opryland Hotel today! |
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