Ups and Downs

This week we had some great and not so great experiences.

Last Sunday we had a recent convert come with us on splits and when we visited Alice Jean he was telling her about how excited he was to be able to go to the temple and be sealed to his children and wife. Alice Jean completely misunderstood what he said and thought that "unless she was sealed to her daughters there was NO way she would be with them in the next life" We really didn't get to explain how it works when we had to leave and now she won't talk to us :( Kind of a bummer but thats how it goes I guess. Hopefully she'll come around.

Lisa and Taylor were doing well for a couple of days and then went into flaky mode and didn't come to church and blew us off for the last couple of days. It's been a real bummer. We'll keep on trying with them though.

Lacy is doing awesome. When we were talking to her she told us how she was cutting down on swearing and that she had stopped smoking... we haven't talked about any of that with her. She was also able to go to the church with us on Wednesday so we could show her around and she was ready to come yesterday. But satan, being the little booger that he is, she had to go to a funeral, conviently scheduled at the same time sacrament meeting was. She said she'll come next week though.
I was telling the story to our district leader Elder Jackson and he said "well, at least he can only die once!" We then discussed whether or not they'll have "funerals" for those who end us suffering at the second death, I imagine it will be a sad moment considering that they are our brothers and sisters.
Hopefully no one else dies between now and her baptism.
Unfortunatly because she didn't come to church we had to drop her date and we haven't seen her to reset it yet.

Yesterday we had an amazing experience finding a new investigator. Her name is Vanessa and she is a Native American from Sells. While we were riding around on our bikes on Saturday, we stopped at a bus stop to talk to a girl sitting there. I usually hate talking to people at bus stops because the bus always comes and interupts our conversation. But President Walker really emphasized talking to EVERYONE at zone conference on Friday, so we stopped and said Hi.

"Are you like church people?" she asked.
"Why, yes we are!"
"where is you church?"
"It's not too far down the street."
"Can I come to your church? I really want God in my life."

I'm sure you can guess our response. We tried to set up a lesson for that night but she said she was busy but would come to church. We found her a ride and SHE CAME! she brought her 5 year-old niece and so she left half way through the second talk but we went by that night and she loved it. She only left because Abigail was getting bored. We sat down and taught her about Heavenly Father's love for her and Jesus Christ's Atonement; about baptism, forgiveness and the restoration of the priesthood . It was sauch a great lesson and she accepted a baptism date for the 17th of July. We're so excited for her. She wants so badly to be born again and to have the spirit in her life. She told us that she hears people talk about feeling the spirit and that she wants to feel that so bad. When we described the Spirit using Galatians 5 she started crying when she realized that she WAS feeling the spirit. At that point the spirit engulfed the room and it was awesome! We are so blessed to have met her. It was a miracle from the Lord.

Well thats about all for this last week. Love you guys!

Elder Harris