Well can you believe it?!? My last full
day in Tennessee!!! Yeah, I can't believe it either. It doesn't feel
that real yet. This past week has been good, a little bit slower because
a few of our investigators are out of town, but it has still been a
very blessed week!
We've been able to have
some REALLY good success with Donna this past week. We officially taught
her the Word of Wisdom and asked her to live it. She was a bit hesitant
on that. She's been smoking and drinking coffee and tea for 60+ years.
She's made a schedule for herself though to be off coffee and tea by the
end of the week. And then, with smoking, she is down to 13 cigarettes a
day now!! (I know that sounds like a lot, but when we first started
meeting with her, she was at 30 a day, so miracles are happening slowly,
but surely). When we left her house from that lesson, she gave us all
of her tea and most of the coffee in her house! It felt very rewarding
to leave her house carrying a huge tub of coffee and tea!! Donna came to
not only Sacrament meeting this week, but also Sunday school! It was
nice to have her and I feel like she learned a lot. Next week she is
planning on coming to Sacrament meeting, taking a nap during Sunday
School, and then going to Relief Society... Hopefully one day she'll be
able to go without a cigarrette for a few hours so she can come to all
three!!
Loretta is just amazing. Blessed
Loretta. She's been reading every single day and praying every single
day. She wants to get baptized with her boy Sammy. They came to a
baptism for an 8 year old girl this week and it seemed to be a super
good experience. Sammy got a bit restless so right after the baptism,
they left. Sunday she showed up for church again, and boy oh boy was it
just great! During Relief Society, Loretta got up and said her testimony
(the RS president had asked her a few days beforehand). It was super
cool to hear it though. She told an experience that she had where she
was reading the Book of Mormon for 15 hours straight. She stopped
afterwards to take a 20 minute nap. During that nap she had a dream and
she just knew without a doubt that the Book of Mormon is true. She said
how every Sunday from now on out, she will be at church. She wants to be
baptized sometime in January. I am SO excited for her!!!! Kinda sad
that I won't be here to see it all, but we are going to keep in contact!
We
had a funny experience this past week. We were out trying to talk to
people at the park. There was this guy that was out, so we decided to go
and talk to him. When we came up, the very first thing that came out of
his mouth was "I'm not homeless, I promise." We introduced ourselves
and got to know him a little bit and all that fun jazz. We told him that
as missionaries, we share a message about Christ and His restored
Gospel and asked if he would be interested in learning more. He said he
had to go, we said okay and asked for his number. He said he didn't want
to give it, so we gave him ours.... okay, fast forward to later that
night. We got this random text that said "Is this the Sister
Missionaries...truecountryboy"
We
volunteered at this Fair thing and had a booth this past week. All of
the missionaries in the stake had to sign up to take a time. When we did
it, there was a UT football game going on, so there was hardly anybody
at the fair. So, it was really boring. But, we did talk to every single
person that went past, so that was a good thing!!!
I
am really, really enjoying being with Sister Linford!! She is so sweet!
I am really sad to be leaving her, I know she will do just great here
though!!
Sister Beth Spencer
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