Hello Everyone!
Man, we had quite the week!
We've been working with this awesome guy named Sam. He was a street
contact we had last week and he is going through chemotherapy but he
told us we were welcome to come back and share our message so we met
with him a lot this week. He actually came to church on Sunday and
loved it - he told us how much he admired the members. In one of our
later lessons he told us that he sensed a big part of our church had
to do with families and he said that's something he wanted help with
because his family is basically torn apart. We actually met with his
wife Jackie this week as well and had the opportunity to talk with her
and that was one of the most spiritually painful lessons I've ever
been in. Jackie has become so bitter towards Sam in some of the things
he's done in his life and she doesn't really display much emotion but
she talked to us for maybe thirty minutes straight about all the pain
she is going through.
She told us she would listen to our message but that she wouldn't
believe much about it until she saw Sam make major changes in his
life. This morning as I was studying for the family I thought of the
parable of the prodigal son. Jackie is a lot like the elder brother -
she's lived a good life and goes to church when she can and tries to
maintain her faith and her family but she's so broken inside about
what Sam has done and won't let anyone in to heal her. We had the
bishop's wife with us and she got emotional as she shared her own
experience of coming from a broken home. Sister Cook was also raised
in a similar situation so she could relate too. It made me a lot more
grateful for my parents who work together to maintain a home in
righteousness.
We had the opportunity to spend about three hours in the hot sun
helping to sort food for the Salvation Army with some kids from the
local high school. It was such a blast! We had other missionaries from
our zone come help and it was pretty fun! But we are all so badly
sunburned it's not that funny. We all looked like such tomatoes coming
out of there.
We have this awesome investigator named Vanessa. She just had a stroke
and moved to California for radiation treatment for her cancer. We
teach her every day and she's really cool! Her cousin Joseph actually
referred her but none of her immediate family live nearby. Vanessa's
one hold up is that she really likes her baptist church (friends and
the music) and she has already been baptized twice so she feels like
if she gets baptized again, she'll make Heavenly Father mad. Kind of
strange - but we've been working with her on the proper authority part
:)
So Vanessa is so great. She comes to church but needs a ride so we
have a member go pick her up and getting her into the car is so
stressful because like the left half of her body can't move so it's
like doing the hokey pokey to get her into the car. And then we wheel
her around in a wheelchair during church that is pretty painful for
her. Haha, and she had to go to the bathroom and needed help . . .
Poor Sister Cook wheeled her into the handicapped stall and then
jetted back out with this freaked out look in her eyes so it was up to
me! Haha that was fun :)
We had such a cool experience park contacting the other night. There
were these girls there that were getting ready for volleyball
practice and my heavens they reminded me so much of all my younger
cousins! They were so cute and fun to talk to! They asked about who we
were and what we did and then talked about who they were and what they
did. So fun! Then we walked over to a table and contacted this guy and
he looked pretty down. We started talking with him and he said he used
to be super religious but that all changed when a series of tragic
events happened in his life so he chose not to believe in God at all.
I asked him if he was happy now and he said that he was miserable but
he wouldn't believe in God. Wow . . . what a difference it can make in
a person's life if they will only choose to believe! We felt so bad
for him as he walked away but we know Heavenly Father will look out
for His son.
That's about it for the week! Thank you all for your letters and
support! Have an awesome week!
Love, Sister Dunn
helping to sort food for the Salvation Army with some kids from the
local high school. It was such a blast! We had other missionaries from
our zone come help and it was pretty fun! But we are all so badly
sunburned it's not that funny. We all looked like such tomatoes coming
out of there.
We have this awesome investigator named Vanessa. She just had a stroke
and moved to California for radiation treatment for her cancer. We
teach her every day and she's really cool! Her cousin Joseph actually
referred her but none of her immediate family live nearby. Vanessa's
one hold up is that she really likes her baptist church (friends and
the music) and she has already been baptized twice so she feels like
if she gets baptized again, she'll make Heavenly Father mad. Kind of
strange - but we've been working with her on the proper authority part
:)
So Vanessa is so great. She comes to church but needs a ride so we
have a member go pick her up and getting her into the car is so
stressful because like the left half of her body can't move so it's
like doing the hokey pokey to get her into the car. And then we wheel
her around in a wheelchair during church that is pretty painful for
her. Haha, and she had to go to the bathroom and needed help . . .
Poor Sister Cook wheeled her into the handicapped stall and then
jetted back out with this freaked out look in her eyes so it was up to
me! Haha that was fun :)
We had such a cool experience park contacting the other night. There
were these girls there that were getting ready for volleyball
practice and my heavens they reminded me so much of all my younger
cousins! They were so cute and fun to talk to! They asked about who we
were and what we did and then talked about who they were and what they
did. So fun! Then we walked over to a table and contacted this guy and
he looked pretty down. We started talking with him and he said he used
to be super religious but that all changed when a series of tragic
events happened in his life so he chose not to believe in God at all.
I asked him if he was happy now and he said that he was miserable but
he wouldn't believe in God. Wow . . . what a difference it can make in
a person's life if they will only choose to believe! We felt so bad
for him as he walked away but we know Heavenly Father will look out
for His son.
That's about it for the week! Thank you all for your letters and
support! Have an awesome week!
Love, Sister Dunn
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