Dear Family!
Another great week! But when is it not! I mean this is the life. Bear Lake doesn't sound nearly as good as Appleton Wisconsin, where the apples are ripe already to harvest! But next year you can take me to see this Juanito Bandito. I have his shirt already. So. Crazy stuff here. Sister Rousseau goes home on Wednesday and guess who just got an email saying she is training? Sister Goldwater. And possibly a Sister Trent too. So that is awesomely terrifying. But on the bright side that means I get to finish my mission off here! Yay! No more transfers!!! I am so happy!
So Josh invited us to go to mass with him. So we went to St. Pius Catholic church on Saturday. We show up and the Father is like right there, he didn't look to thrilled with us being there. After mass we were talking to Josh when he invited the 2 Fathers to come talk with us, again both didn't really want to but they did. We started talking about the family because they had a really good family conference coming up. We talked about Elder Eyring going to the Vatican for the marriage and family symposium and they just opened up. We ended up volunteering for their family conference that will be in a month. It was a cool interfaith experience where we could unite in the same beliefs in defending the family. Also Josh came to church with us! It was great!
Then Sunday after church we had an appointment with a family, Jennifer and Jed. They are Baptist and had a lot of questions so we brought a very knowledgeable family from the ward, the Bowmans. We show up and they had invited their pastor...oh boy! It was an interesting meeting. It had potential to blow up but it was pretty good. Everyone walked away with the Book of Mormon and an invitation to read. We will see what comes of it. I feel like the people here in Appleton are very educated, it's making me study my Bible a lot more than I ever needed to before.
So we went to a less active member's house but she wasn't there. Her son was there with 2 friends. None of them were super religious because I think they have never gotten the chance. They all were open but we went to visit one of them, Jayden, and he is reading! He is keeping commitments! It is great! He is 16 and he lives with his family and his aunt's family. Every time we go we meet new people! 4 people in the house are reading the Book of Mormon! Yay! That is so exciting! Jayden is coming to the Young Men's President's home tonight. His whole family is very supportive, it's so great!
We did see Deborah! She also came to church Sunday! She is very free spirited! We are trying to help her find her family. She has had a complicated past so hopefully we can find her links. We set a baptism date for October 17th! It'll be good. We are having her meet with us in member's homes this week. She is so kind!
So Kristy's son Deandre is preparing for baptism. She has been praying to find her 3 boys suits but she hasn't been able to. She found them all suits this week for $8.50! The boys were SO excited! They looked so nice on Sunday! She said Deandre woke her up, before her alarm went off, with his suit on and told her he was ready to go! Too cute! We are helping her other son prepare for his 8th birthday and get him excited.
So we met Alex this week, he is friends with several young men in this ward. We met him at the church and had a really good lesson and he committed to be baptized! It's great! All of his friends are prepping for missions. What better way than helping your friends! Also we went on exchanges with the YSA sisters so we could transition our YSA aged investigators. We met with Brandon. He is just so solid! He went to church 2 weeks now and is so excited for baptism! He knows its true and it just makes sense! We met a really cute Spanish family too that we are handing over to the Spanish Elders. You can just call us the Appleton referral center! It is funny with the rotation of our investigators. So many great people! The orchard is red and ripe! So sweet and delicious!
So we are doing laundry right now at a really cool laundromat. They even have a tanning bed. It can help improve my watch tan ;) Anyways! It has been just great to see the work of the Lord progressing! I am excited to see what the next 2 transfers bring! It has just been so amazing to see the enabling power of the atonement help us carry on. It is only through him :) I hope you continue to all have fun with spontaneous vacation. Maybe in a few months we can spontaneous back to Wisconsin! Eheheh! I love you all! Be safe!
I love you as much as bed bugs love biting!
Anne
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