PJ's in the Fridge!

Greetings world!

It's been another grueling week of sweat, lotsa walking, and miracles.

Tuesday we had zone conference, which is always wonderful :) and then we took our branch president's family for a church tour :) That was an adventure 'cause they have 4 kids ages 8 and under. One of them was running around without his pants.

Wednesday we met with this lady named M, who we met briefly last week. She had met with missionaries before, but when we talked a little bit more about the Book of Mormon and what the truth of it entails, she got purdy excited. Other than that, it was mostly a day of walking and appointments falling through. But we met a handful of very nice people.

Thursday we had exchanges. The Sister Training Leaders both came down here. I went with Sister Jones. We ran into a sassy guy named R that we'd met a couple weeks ago. When we first met him, he sorta listened to what we said, and teased us a bit. This time he said that we'd really intrigued him, and that he would really like to read the Book of Mormon, but he'd be too busy to meet for the next 30 days or so. He said, "Don't worry, though. I will call you, I'm persistent." I said, "Great! So are we!" 

Then we met with L, our deaf friend. His wife doesn't want to sit in on lessons unless we can get an interpreter, but we watched the Restoration with subtitles, and she sat in :) L told us he'd finish the Book of Mormon in two weeks. And I've been making a bazillion phone calls to try to find somebody who could come to lessons. Apparently Fishers has a good handful of LDS folks who know ASL, so it's just been a matter of finding one who'd be able to make it out. The good news is that our deaf couple is moving to Fishers purdy soon, so they'll have better resources to help them.

Then we met with our friend A who is from the Dominican Republic. We taught her more about Christ's Atonement. She described to us how she believed that the Fall of Adam and Eve was on purpose 'cause God knows what he's doing. We had her read a chunk of 2 Nephi 2, which she really liked.

Friday, we did a church tour with L (who is a few years older than me, and was baptized about 2 years ago) and her mom, who hasn't been super interested in learning more. We had a great experience and she agreed to meet again to talk about the Plan of Salvation. L's dad is not religious at all, but is a great guy, so L's mom has a hard time believing that he'd end up in the same place as Hitler after this life. I love that the restored gospel has such a simple response to such concerns :D

Saturday we met with D, the lady we'd met last week. And she was ready for us. She'd done some research, and had great questions (which I think we satisfied) She seems purdy open, and the spirit was strong. She felt it too. Later we walked the mile home in the pouring rain. My notebook is still wet.

It's getting a little warmer than it has been, which is rough 'cause there's no AC in our upstairs apartment. This morning, I put my PJs in the fridge, so hopefully that'll help :D

If anybody would like to join me, I'm trying to read the Book of Mormon through one last time as a missionary. But you'd have to play some catch up. If I read 2 chapters a day (starting tomorrow with 2 Nephi 22) I'll finish Dec. 1. Kinda cool.

~Picture from exchanges

Sister Mercer, Sister Cutler, and Sister Jones

Zone training: Elders Malan, Scribner, Bullock, Park, Sneddon, Cronin, Foster, Lawrence, Bush, Halverson, Hollinger, Hentish, Mortenson, Gurney, and Wolverton

Sister Mercer, me, Sister Woodhouse, Elder Woodhouse, Sister Barker, Sister Bradshaw, and Elder Van Shaar