Hello family! This week has been super crazy. I think I told you last week that Sister Cox had to go home for medical reasons. I miss her a lot; she is really great and now that she is gone we are REALLY busy. The two areas that make up the Rochester 1st ward are combined now, and this happened to be the week that the other area really took off. We now have two investigators (mom and her 9-year-old son) with baptismal dates for Feb 4th. We still have like 6 lessons we need to tech them before then, but they are doing really well so far. They had been attending a different ward with her sister (who is a member), but they came to our ward for the first time this week and they are really taking off. Their names are Mislourde (sp? ...it's French) and Cedric Jean.
Then we have Corky (middle-aged mom) and Jeremy (son in his 30s). We took them to tour the sites this week (the Grandin Building, lovingly known by the sisters as the BOMPS for Book of Mormon Printing Site, and part of the Joseph Smith Farm/sacred grove). They loved it! Tina (used-to-be biker gang woman, baptized this past Christmas eve) was AWESOME and came with us. She totally talked about all the ways the church has blessed her life and why she got baptized. I was brave and invited them to be baptized... there is still a barrier there for Corky but Jeremy said he feels like he'd have to if he gets an answer that the Book of Mormon is true. VERY cool experience.
We also have a woman named Delores (she was a referral). She is looking for peace and trying to figure out how to forgive her father for some things he'd done. We've only met with her once, but it's going well so far. We have also taught Dale only once so far... he was tracted into but is the father of a less-active in our ward. He mostly just wants to feel the Spirit in his life and to understand what it means that he is a child of God. He doesn't have the vocabulary to know that's what he wants yet, but that's exactly what he described.
We are also still working with Laurel, the LA that is quitting smoking. She's doing really great, but didn't make it to church yesterday :/ Still waiting to find out what's up.
Today we are going to the museum of play, and Friday night we are going to the temple (a once-in-a-tranfer opportunity)!!! Super excited. I'll be sure to update you on that next week. The pic this week is me at the Hill Cumorah. In my sleeping bag coat :) It's warmer this week, but the wind still gets very cold.
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| The Hill Cumorah in winter |
I think that's about it for this week. I am always praying harder, but I am feeling the Lord's blessings every day. We record daily miracles in our planners, and sometimes it is hard to pick from all the ones we have received! It's cool. I would encourage all of you to look for daily miracles in your lives... I know we will find the Lord's hand when we look for it.
I love you all! Have a fabulous week!
Love,
Sister Schank
