Dear Family & Friends:
- Dinner with the Branch President's family and hearing all their crazy emergency room stories over dinner time.
- Pulling up to our apartment the same time that one of the member's daughter and grandson who live in our apartment, and being able to help carry her bicycle up to her apartment. Then the grandson, wanted to show us some of his toys, and so we were able to visit with them for a little while, even though the daughter isn't the biggest fan of religion :)
- Calling a volunteer coordinator for Heritage days this past weekend, and having the coordinator get really excited because we were missionaries!
- Helped weed Heidi's garden
- Had an amazing lesson on
conversion and Alma the younger's story in Alma 36 with Judy
- Had an amazing district meeting
training from Sister Murphy on strengthening our relationship with our Father
in Heaven, by overcoming our fears with help from prayer- Helped clean the church building
- We were finding in Solon one evening when we decided to run to Dairy Queen for a blizzard. While we were there we saw their bulletin board and asked if we could put up some Nauvoo pageant cards on the board. Before we were finished at DQ someone had taken one of the pageant cards! (Sometimes cravings are inspired)
- Helping with Heritage days on Saturday. It was so hot and humid, that you were just dripping standing in the shade. During the afternoon our family history consultant had set up laptops in the Mt. Vernon visitor center for people to come and find their ancestors, and there were people there the entire time as we helped them find ancestors on familysearch.org!
- While we were in the visitor center a woman came in and said that she was from Washington D.C. and wanted to treat the missionaries to lunch. She had come for her husband's 50th high school reunion, and she had joined the church 2 years ago!
- Saturday, out of the blue Chris texted us! He has been ignoring us for like 6 weeks and then he was the one to text us! He had Sunday off finally and was going to try and talk his cousin into coming to church with him, but neither one of them came :(
- Two weeks ago when we were helping with the storm clean up, we had told our landlord that we are willing to help him, but he said that he hates asking for help, but on Saturday he called us and asked if we could help him!
- For the past week we have been trying to contact Martha, who is a referral from Sister Cardon, but Martha lives in a retirement place, so we could never get in because it was locked, and the codes to call the rooms, weren't working. Anyways we went in through the care center that was attached to the retirement facility and one of the CNA's took us to Martha who was in the dining room. Martha gave us a puzzled look when we said that we had come to visit her, but then she warmed right up to us, gave us the code to get in, and told us to come back! She was such a riot and Sister Cardon told us yesterday to not be shy in sharing the gospel with her, so I look forward to meeting with Martha this week!
- So the sisters serving in Iowa City, that found Jeff, had made a deal with Jeff that we would attend one of his worship services if he would attend one of ours, so last night Sister Porter and I attended our first apostolic service. It was our first times attending a different worship service, which was neat, but it made me think about how grateful that I am to have been raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and to have the fullness of the gospel! Anyways, Jeff will be coming to church next Sunday!
Anyways, I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week!
Love, Sister Call
AWESOME!
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