Interesting week...

Well, this week has been nice and interesting. We have had a lot of fun!

Tuesday was pretty harsh, our appointments with investigators all fell
through. It was okay though, we got to teach some members, and it was
good.

Wednesday we taught Carolyn about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We are
very excited for her. She has been to church twice now and is
progressing towards baptism. We have her on date, and she seems
willing to accept all of the things that we teach her. We had an
interesting lesson on the priesthood and the keys and authorities and
the power. It was good, but I am sure that she is confused beyond all
belief now. Hopefully we will get things straightened out. She is an
interesting lady, but we love teaching her and we are excited to see
the blessings that the gospel holds for her.
Wednesday we also got to teach Carlos and Kyndra. They are doing
awesome. They are working on being better about family scripture study
and prayer, and we have been challenging them to start doing family
home evening. We will see how it goes. Carlos got the priesthood
yesterday and is going to be able to baptize Kyndra on Saturday. It is
very cool for their family!

Thursday we went on exchanges. Sister Gillespie went to MLC, and I was
her in Mill Creek ward with Sister Hamblin. She has only been out for
about a week, so I was a bit worried that it would be like the blind
leading the blind. The day went well though, and we got to visit lots
of people. No upsets, and I know the area much better than I thought I
did.
Sister Gillespie came back that night and we taught Michael in the
Chapel with Bishop Larson. It went really well, and Michael committed
to be baptized. However, he has had a few tough things happen since
then, so it probably wont happen as quickly as we would have liked.

Friday was a lot of fun. We went up the mountain to Angelus Oaks and
taught Jan. She is so much fun! She was an online referral and she
referred herself. She is very busy though, so we have yet to see her
at church. We always enjoy our trips to her home though :)
Fun Story! Also, every Friday there are these guys that sit on the
side of the road under a tent that says, "Need Prayers?" We always
want to stop when we drive by, but we never have time to. Well this
week we had time, so we stopped and talked to them for a few minutes.
They are not affiliated with any church, so they just come out and
talk to people and pray with them in an effort to help those who stand
in need. It's pretty cool really. They said a prayer with us and they
pray a lot like we do. We told them we will come back and next time we
will pray :)

Saturday we got to visit lots of people and teach a lot of lessons,
but the most interesting was to a Brother Hayden. He is not a member,
but his wife has been a member for over 40 years. He is agnostic
though and does not believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He is
pretty skeptical of all things Christianity. We had a really good time
talking though. He was a history teacher and so he kept trying to pull
out historical things about Christ and religion that we wouldn't know
about, but he was pleasently surprised that I knew most of what he was
talking about and could carry a conversation. Don't be confused. This
was not a bashing lesson. Just a fun discussion on the legitimacy of
the Bible. He loves the sister missionaries and welcomed us back. He
is even going to read 3 Nephi and the first chapter of Jesus the
Christ before we come back! We are excited to see if he will take the
leap of faith to ask if Jesus Christ really is our Savior!

Sunday we got to teach a few old widows for mothers day. It was a lot
of fun! I love my mother and my family. It is a glorious time to be a
member of this gospel! We get to rise up and raise children in
righteousness when the world is so crazy!
Love you all :)
Sister Hope