Dear Family and Friends,
So this week was full of adventures.
on Tuesday Sister Fuggle had MCL, for leaders and so I was in a three
some and that sucks but it was fine. When she got back we had to go to
the apartment again because we had to go to the bathroom. well.. .... we
got to the apartment and realized that we didn't have the keys.....GREAT! so we
ended up going through one of the apartments next to us because I knew I left
the back door unlocked but it is one of those that has a latch. anyways
we finally got there and we had to stick our fingers through the little hole to
try and get the latch off and it was hard. finally I got to get my hand through
the screen and tried to get the latch off with a hangar. we were
desperate. finally Sister Fuggle got it off and we got in the door.
then we realized that the door to the house was locked and then I
remembered there were keys on the side to unlock the lock on the first door
that should have been locked. are you following? it unlocked the
door and we got in. as we were getting ready to leave I realized the gate
outside was locked from the outside. NOOOOOO! man we just could not catch a
break. so we hoped the fence. man it was so fun and so funny after
it was over.
so now to the investigators.
we have these investigators in Camachile where the ocean is and they are
awesome. it is a bunch of men. one, Eric, who doesn't have a wife is
super great and nice, another, Lino, whose wife is born again but they are
super sweet and he wants to know the truth, he actually came to church on Sunday
even though he was at the hospital all night because his brother had a stroke.
AMAZNG!! then his son Marc who is so funny. He is a punk but he is
super interested and reads the stuff we give him. anyways, they were
suppose to come to church yesterday but only Lino came so we went back to them
yesterday to figure out why. the first thing Eric said was that he had
sinned to us which sounds a lot better in tagalog but he said that he had a
friend come in from abroad (whom we had actually taught the day before) and
they had been drinking last night until 3 am. He set his alarm to get up
because they had promised to come to church but you know how well that goes
when your hung over. yea they didn't wake up until 12. then THEY
STARTED DRINKING AGAIN!! yea we were talking to them and they were totally
drunk. We were not going to share in that but Sister Fuggle pulled a
great seriously sad face I was laughing so hard because they were buying us
food and Eric was singing us a song on his guitar and it was all a huge joke.
Marc was so shy but he listened and laughed too. we ended up
leaving a word of wisdom pamphlet for them to read and the rest of the night
they were texting us and apologizing. goodness so funny!!
Yesterday we were punted so hard!
literally all of day was punted because we had so many people to go to that by
9 we had actually run out of people which was impressive. We taught 4
lessons and only 1 was to an investigator because most of the people we wanted
to teach were either drinking or not home. Also when we had exchanges me
and Sister Garrett had 2 drunk guys try to get us to go to their house and talk
to them. Yea that was not going to happen. We laughed after because
it was twice in one day.
One of our investigators Kathy, had
an amazing experience. She said that as she passed our church she felt the
spirit so strong tell her that is was a place of safety and then she said that
on Sunday when she was getting ready to go to her church she just felt lazy and
didn't want to do anything and then thought that she really wanted to go to our
church. SHE NEVER CAME!! but the spirit is working and it is just slow
progress, she does still have her agency so we will keep working on her.
On Sunday two of our recent converts
got the priesthood and as I watch them receive it through the door I felt the
spirit so strong and it testified to me that the priesthood is something that
is so sacred and important to us as members of the church. There is not greater
gift than the power of god and I know that it is more important to be worthy of
it. He loves us so much to trust him with his power.
Other than that things are going
great. I am learning the importance of making a goal and working your
hardest to achieve it so that the lord can be there to help. He is always
there and one thing I challenge all of you to read Moroni 10 about the
spiritual gifts and then pray and read to try and figure out what your
spiritual gifts are. The lord works through our spiritual gifts to help
us accomplish our goals. I know that we all have some and I know we all
need to grow them. I love you all and I am so grateful for your support
and I hope in some way you can all see the lord hand in your life. I know
he loves you because I know he loves me. Take care and I will talk to you
all next week,
Sister Snow
