Hey Everyone!:D
Good news y'all! I'm staying in Atlanta with Sister Stephens! We're both really happy that we're staying and are excited to make this transfer a great one! Sinse I'm staying with her another transfer, that also means I'm her last companion before she goes home in 6 weeks. What's weird is I go home 6 weeks after her. I'm hoping the next few transfers go by really really slow unlike the rest of them have. Anyway, we had a good week and have a fun stories.
Tuesday: We saw Liz in the morning and talked about the stop smoking workshop and we were going to start it with her, but she's really nervous about it and doesn't feel ready at all. Interesting fact about Liz. She used to do meth and about 8 weeks ago and she quit cold turkey. She's going through withdrawls, and because of that she's been sick a lot. Yesterday me, Sister Stephens and Sister Gaddy (Member in the ward) fasted for her to have the desire to quit smoking. The members really helping Liz out though, and its been great to see her trust the members more and more.
Wednesday: There's this less active named Mary Britt in the ward and she's pretty much less active because of her health. She's super sweet and we love visiting her. We had planned to read with her from the Book Of Mormon, but when we got there she asked us to move a few things and we ended up helping her organize instead. We do the preparation in the morning but ultimately our purpose is to follow the promptings of the Holy Ghost and it is to help people come unto Christ. Whether that's through sharing a scripture, sharing the restoration, or helping someone organize their things.
Thursday: I got to meet for the first time this super nice lady named Sherri Kenner. We read with her and set her with a date. She's really open and loves learning about Jesus:D Sister Stephens already knows her because Sherri was progressing a few months ago before I got here. Apparently, Sherri moved but we found out last week she still lives at her apartment.
Friday: We did service most of the day with a member named Fehren. We helped her plant and cleaned a little bit of her house, she's one of my favorite members in the ward:)
Saturday: We tracted for an hour and met this really nice older couple. When we first knocked on their door an older guy probably in his 70's answered and told us he was baptized, and that he's been baptized 40-50 years. I might have told him that he looked way younger then he is and he let us in. We met his wife and had a really good conversion about Christ and the importance of families. Towards the end we shared a scripture from the Book Of Mormon and told them a little about it. We offered them one and they said yes. They're really open about reading it and they said they love anything that teaches them more about Jesus. They told us that we could come back in a week because their family was going out of town for the holiday. After tracting we went and saw a few members. One of the families we saw is the Griffens, and it was really cool because her nonmember sister was there. We read with them and talked about the power and strength of the Book Of Mormon. We told her where it came from and why we need it. Me and Sister Stephens bore our testimonies and the Spirit was really strong. I offered her a copy of the Book Of Mormon and promised her if she would read it and ask God with real intent if Book Of Mormon was true that the Holy Ghost would testify to her heart that it was and she could know for herself. The Spirit really seemed to soften her heart and she accepted a copy. I love watching and the Spirit work with people. It's truly wonderful and amazing to see.
Sunday: So the Sister Training Leaders over this area in honor of week 6 deemed it challenge week. Everyday this last week they've texted us a challenge and half of Sunday's challenge was to compliment or say something like about each member the ward council. Luckily, yesterday we had ward council and everyone actually came. Halfway through it they got to us and we told them about our investigators that needed help or they need to know about. Right before they were about to move on, I asked if I could say something nice about each person. Well I didn't really asked, I kinda just went for it. It was soooo awkward! but what made it worse was the fact I didn't know some of their names. It took me about 10 minutes to get through everyone and I hope they've all forgotten about it by now even though it's only been a day. Next time Bishop will probably bring duct tape or just not invite us haha
Love y'all and have a great week!!!!:D
Love,
Sister Keables
