Miracles!

This week has been a good week.  There have been lots of hard times, but there were more miracles that the bad times seem little.  First off it was Halloween week!! Wednesday night we had a Harvest Festival in our ward!  It was awesome, there were so many non-members there with all the part-member families, and members bringing friends, the only problem, there are only 2 of us, and there were so many activities going on simultaneously that it was hard to talk to everyone.  It was a very stressful ward party, with people getting mad because we weren't spending enough time with their people, but we had to see everyone...man my head starts hurting just thinking about it, but good news, we got a 3 piece family (3 baptize age family) to start teaching.  They came with the Sturges, an awesome family in the ward and we should start teaching them this week!! We're excited!!

That night we went and stopped at McDonalds, because we didn't get to eat at the party due to so much socializing, and we decided to go inside (weird because we never go inside!) and there was a family sitting and eating.  We walked in and suddenly I recognized the man, I pointed at him, and so out of character said, "You're Carl right?"

he looked at me confused and said, "Yessss."

and I said "we're the missionaries, I ran into you up in Kitsap Lake with another girl and you said we could come see you, would it still be alright for us to stop by and teach you and your family a lesson?"

Then he recognized who I was and said, "Oh yeah, sister Thomas, yeah that'd be fine."

"Sweet." we said, "We'll give you a call and set it up!"

And then we got our food, said bye and left.

I can't remember if I told you guys or not but I met Carl up in Kitsap Lake 2 weeks ago when I was with Sister Hall on an exchange.  He didn't seem super open, but he agreed to let us come and gave us his number and address, and then at McDonald's it was just too much of a coincidence that we met him twice randomly.  We have an appointment with him on tuesday night, and I'm so excited, I think he could be the reason I'm in Belfair, to find him and teach him and his two kids!  So I'm excited for that!!

Another awesome miracle.  So this kid Freddy has been progressing really well, and then he got grounded (he's a crazy 16 year old boy....of course he got grounded :) ) anyway, so he hasn't been at church the last couple weeks, and we have no way of communicating with him so we were sad that he had disappeared, but then he was at church!!!!!

So....he pulled us out of Sunday School and asked if we could teach him a lesson, we said of course so we taught him the plan of salvation and the gospel of Jesus Christ.  Then we were setting a date for him to get baptized and he said,

"The 10th, I wanna do the 10th" and we were like,

"that's next Sunday" and he said "YEP!" so we told him all the stuff he has to do before then, got the record to him so he can have his dad sign it, and we are currently in bad headache panic mode to get his last lesson taught, him interviewed, and the program made by Sunday.  It will work out, but it won't be easy, especially since we have no direct communication with him, we have to work through a young man that he goes to school with.....man we need facebook, this would be so much easier! haha

Oh speaking of Facebook.  I think we may be getting it at the end of this month.  On Halloween during our zonemeeting we had a conference call and President Weaver announced that on November 23 a member of the quorum of the twelve and a member of the seventy are coming to visit our mission during their trip up to Washington, and we get to spend 2 hours with them!!! They don't know who is coming yet, but it would be so legit if it was Elder Bednar and Elder Dube, that's who I'm hoping for!! I'd said Uchtdorf, but since he's in the first presidency I don't know if he'd come....whoever it is it will be awesome!!

We're secretly hoping that with the member of the 12 also comes Ipads and Facebook.  They will make the work so much quicker!!!! It would be awesome!!

Then after the AWESOME news of the conference call we finished the meeting and then went on to our being locked in the church and being babysat by the senior missionaries! haha it was way fun though, we had a potluck and then we got to watch a technically not approved movie, but approved by President for the night! We watched Ephraim's Rescue, and if anyone reading this hasn't seen it, you've got to!! It's incredible!!! It's made by the guy that made 17 miracles and its about the pioneers and this guy who has the gift of healing.   It's seriously incredible, watch it!!! NOW!!

Well, lets see what else happened.  Oh, yesterday we got our apartment dedicated, because weird scary stuff was happening, and now it's like walking into a chapel, its so incredible!! I love the Priesthood and that we're able to literally feel the difference between good and evil. 

I think that's all for this week!! Now onto the stress of planning a baptism that will be a day that Freddy will always remember!! It will be amazing, and such a good thing to get Less Active members involved in!! I'll let you know how it goes next week!!

I love and miss you all!!

Have a great week!!

Sister Thomas

 

ps I love you SOO MUCH!!

 

pps I need Halloween Costume Pictures!! I wanna see how cute you all were, I was a missionary, so original right.  Oh funny story.  We were doing a trunk or treat after our zone meeting at the church on halloween and this little 9 or 10 year old boy walked by and said,

"Oh look at all those missionaries, they all need to go find girls to kiss"

and all the sisters just busted up laughing, it was so funnily inappropriate.....plus the elders were so embarrassed!! haha priceless!!

I LOVE YOU!!!