Asian Markets and Smoke Signals lead to Investigators (Week 7)

Sister Tayler and I in our car

 Hi Everyone,

First of all I want to say I love you all.

Next, I want to ask about the member lessons.  I think I want to try it in my area.  Winter Garden needs more enthusiasm for missionary work.  I want to know if it is just Clarke Farms doing it, or is it a mission thing?  How long do the lessons last?  Can I get an outline of the lessons from one of the missionaries?  Thanks, I think this could really help the members in my area.

The church has come out with a video about the temple garments and clothing.  It was well done, so I suggest looking it up.  And, for any non-member, if you have ever heard about the weird underwear that Mormons wear or wonder what happens in the Temple then I would also watch it.

Update on Investigators:

Jason: He's doing well.  He prayed at the end of a lesson for the first time this week.  We have been trying to get him to say a prayer for a while now.  He reads the assignments we give him, and he reads from the Book of Mormon with his wife and daughters each night.  He has also been praying with his family.  We have committed him to have an individual prayer.  Jason's one concren, that I see, is that he doesn't get that there is only one true church.  He accepts the church as true, but he also accepts the other Christian churches as true.  I believe it will come for him, when he prays on his own and reads on his own.

April and Mat: They dropped us.  :(  Sad.  We think April thinks we are trying to hit on Mat.  I think Mat dropped us, because April wants him to.

Ruth and her children: We haven't been able to contact them for a while, so we have reluctantly put those efforts on hold.

Cassandra: She is a new investigator.  We talked to her husband, Horace, last week.  They own a youth ministry and play in the band.  She says she has been friends with other sister Missionaries before, but that she has never taken the lessons.

We went to the Asian market to find some Chinese people that Sister Taylor can teach.  We found a couple, who want her to teach them English, and they said they'll teach her Chinese.  They are Christian, and she kept thanking the Lord that we had met.

We had president interviews this week.  President Berry is awesome.  He gave the council to be bold.  I am trying my best to obey that instruction.

Miracle:  Sorry for not including one last week.  I ran out of time.  Now I'm writing it first, even though I am putting it at the end.  We were out tracting yesterday.  Sister Taylor asked me to pick an apartment building out of two.  I tried to listen to the spirit as I chose one of them.  She then asked me second or first floor.  We would do one and then the other.  I choose the second floor.  We knocked on both the doors up there.  No one answered.  We then started down the stairs and, lo and behold, there was a man standing outside of his door smoking.  I didn't hear him come outside.  We started talking to him about families and, a little later, about temples.  We taught him most of the restoration on the spot.  My favorite question Gilan asked was, "what makes your church different?"  I was bold and told him, "we have the priesthood, and no other church does -- even though they are trying to do good."  We asked him if he wanted to go on a temple tour.  He said he would rather learn about the Book of Mormon first.  It was awesome!  He has a busy schedule, so we weren't able to set a return appointment.  I know if we had knocked on his door, he wouldn't have listened as much as he did.  It was a blessing that we went upstairs first while he came out to smoke.   That reminds me that he said what he knew about our church was that we were strict, but that he admires us for it.

Now for another picture...

Sisters Pike, Pack, Taylor, and Young enjoying a treat at Jeremiah's

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~Sister Aurora Pack