Meet the Mormons

Dear Familia!

This week was pretty dang sweet. So we had zone training this week and we got to watch Meet the Mormons. It was pretty sweet. You all should have seen it already because I know it is playing in IF and in Utah, I don't know about Nevada. That was pretty fun! First movie in 6 months! I enjoyed it, it was a nice treat for the missionaries. Also at zone training they had Brother Fullmer, the awesome Book of Mormon guy from Sun Prairie, come and teach the missionaries about the Book of Mormon! It was so sick. Everyone was in awe and I just felt pretty cool because I already knew him and already knew most the stuff he was teaching, I'm not prideful at all. Anyways, it was a super good meeting and we didn't have to do any role plays which made it even cooler. 

We went to a members home who have been having a hard time wrangling in their kids and we did a little FHE, well they brought their little friend. He is a super polite kid and super awesome. He is 10 and he can break dance and rap and he knows a TON about the bible. We played Simon Says at the end of our lesson and all the kids wanted to take a turn so when it was his turn he was having them do all these dance moves like the coffee grinder and head spins. It was super funny. We also totally forgot it was one of the Elders birthday so we ended up building him a sweet cake.

Tuesday was a really slow day because we didn't have our usual meetings. Then a miracle happened. A referral from the Madison Elders called us and wanted to know if we could bring the Elders over to move her washer and dryer. So all 6 of us show up at her house 10 minutes later and the Elders move her washer and dryer/ almost die down the stairs. We shared a little message with her and invited her to church. She said she would if we could find a ride for her and her 3 boys. We of course say yes we will and go along on our merry way. Turns out it is really hard to find a ride for 4 people. Really hard. We'd gone through the ward list several times and made many phone calls and it is 8 Saturday night. Finally someone calls us back and who can give them a ride. During that phone call 3 other people try calling to say they can! Awesome! Everything thing went through and her family came to church! She has a 16, 13, 2 yr old and one on the way. It was hard to keep the 2 year old entertained during sacrament meeting, we may have had a little marker incident. It all worked out though, they stayed for all 3 hours and afterwards they all said they really enjoyed themselves and can't wait to come back! Super exciting! The bishop told us after that the boys had been really involved in priesthood too! So pretty solid! don't think anything is more stressful than having investigators come to church! I am always so worried. It is like when you show somebody your favorite movie and just sit there and stare at them the whole time to see if they liked it.

We also had Kevin, the deaf member come to church and Sister Homan interpreted for him during Sunday School. It looked pretty dang hard. Everyone was talking super fast and it looked hard to keep up. We had a lot of less actives come to church actually. Gospel Principles was pretty full, which is never is. 

We also met someone else awesome this week. So we went to contact a referral the Elders gave us. He opened the door and introduced himself as a Satanist........awkward..silence... then my comp asks what that means. Then we taught him the restoration and he loved it! He stopped us like 3 times to ask questions about our church and he was just eating it up. Finally HE just asked if we would mind if he came to church! Hallelujah! We taught him the next day too and he totally would have come to church but he got food poisoning, he is definitely coming next week though. So all that is fine and dandy! He seems to be super solid. He believes in God and he believes God is going to win in the end. That point of view got him kicked out of his church. He really wanted to be Christian at one point but all these churches were super mean to him and kicked him out. Not ours!

So yeah sweetness of a family coming to church! That is a first! I have never taught a family, I am uber excited. The gospel is meant to bless families. And as our awesome President Cutler always says "Exhaulted life if family life, God's life it family life!" It's so true! God is just waiting to bless us and families are where we see the most blessings! 

Love you more than all the colors in the trees!

Anne!