Things are pretty much hoppin' in Bastrop.
This Sunday was crazy, I don't even know what happened, we had
everything set up for rides and then suddenly everything fell through
and we were sprinting in the church interrupting the adult meeting and
taking like 4 of the 12 people in it out to give rides, and we were late
to church! BUT it was the most people the Bastrop chapel has seen in
years. Remember when our top investigator broke up with us? She came to
church on Sunday. (My companion Sister Stevenson relates every
relationship with an investigator to a real relationship, when they
don't want to see us anymore they broke up with us and when we have to
schedule a new baptismal date it is like postponing the wedding, so
funny.)
The sacrament meeting topic was eternal marriage, two investigator
couples (but not serious) were there, one whose marriage is barely
hanging on, and one who has expressed to us how badly they want to find a
wife. It was kind of funny. then we talked about "work" in Gospel
Principles, in the middle of the lesson one guy there for the first time
in forever was like, "you know not all churches teach this right?"
Yepp, pretty much no churches around here teach it. I think everyone
their time though. We are really excited about that.
So we have an investigator named Shirley, and she is just the
light in the dark every week, we can always count on her, every time we
go over she says she's been waiting on us. She is 60 and the only member
of her family left. We were walking in the grocery store over a month
ago and she yelled at us and it started like "excu-me where are ya'll
from? what do ya'll teach?" and ended like, "I think I met some angels
today." But we didn't end up seeing her for weeks! But when we did it
was perfect timing. She cooked us some collard(sp?) greens, yummm. It
became my favorite southern dish, everyone always talks about "greens"
but no one would ever cook them. Anyways, she always talks about how
this is a time of change in her life, she really doesn't want to be
anything but Baptist, sorry I'm not sorry, she will be Mormon in no
time.
We also had interviews with the President this week, we had weekly
planning (so 5 hours of study/planning in the morning) and then were at
the building in West Monroe (10 minutes from Duck Dynasty!!) until
at night. It was really good though, the President is too nice, and
same with his wife, I don't know how he keeps track and loves so many
missionaries.
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