Happy Halloween! Was yours as good as mine? I highly doubt it because you probably didn’t win the award for BEST DECORATED VEHICLE at the Trumbull 1st Ward Trunk-or-Treat. That’s right. Our Books of Mormon and Joseph Smith pamphlets really pulled in the votes and our stacks of pass-along cards definitely sealed the deal. We won a shiny orange certificate and a mummy doll. My joy was most definitely full. For actual Halloween, we weren’t allowed to proselyte after 6 PM so after an awesome dinner appointment with purple mashed potatoes and blue apple cider served in chemistry beakers, we went back to the church and just hung out with our district for the rest of the night.
This next part may not make sense. It is a complex story, so bear with me as I try to explain. We got a call this week from a woman who is not a member of the church but has a friend from California who is. The friend is named Sylvia and she only speaks French. She is in Connecticut right now and somehow she got a hold of our number for her friend to call us and try to get her a ride to the church. MEANWHILE, we saw Guy (our investigator that we thought had moved) at the post office. He told us his sister was staying with them, that she was a member, and that she needed a ride to church. Do you see where this is going? Sylvia is Guy’s sister. They aren’t moving until the end of the month and yesterday Sylvia and Linda (Guy’s teenage daughter) came to church. It was really neat and I think we will start teaching Linda soon and then turn the family over to the other missionaries once they move. Please pray for that situation to work out and that there will be someone who can translate for the missionaries when they move!
Last week we went to meet an inactive family in the ward, the Gonzalez’s, and sat and talked to them for a while. The parents are both converts but they attend another church. A couple days later, we got a call from a lady in our ward who is Sister Gonzalez’s visiting teacher. She told us that Sister Gonzalez wanted us to teach the lessons to their 12 year old daughter, Sarah, who hasn’t been baptized and they want her to be able to make a choice of what church she wants to attend. I guess she went to a fireside last week and loved it so that is good news for us! Please pray that we will be able to meet with her and that her heart will be soft!
Well that is all I have for this week. Julian’s baptism is coming up on Saturday if we can teach him what he still needs to know and if he passes his interview! Thanks for all the support you’re sending my way! I love you all!
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