Sunday, October 19, 2014

September 22 - Rough week for numbers. . . but Autumn is coming!

Helllooooooooooooo to the most wonderful family and friends of all time!

Autumn is creeping up on us. . . in beautiful bursts of red that are spotting all of the trees here in Rhode Island. :) I LOVE AUTUMN. I can't wait to see the REAL thing here. Sister Lima can't wait either. She's never seen anything but summer!

Our week was. . . interesting, to say the least. I started it out with getting sick. :P No fun at all. But the Elders (and the Spanish Elders) came and gave me a blessing. I love Priesthood power. :) I was totally able to work the next day.

Which. . . was a rough day. Jackie (Jocelyn's mom) came out with us for half the day, and since we hadn't been able to schedule very many appointments, we did a million stop-bys. That day we had a brutal slammed door, 3 investigators dropped, and one of the worst lessons ever with another 3 investigators, who we might be dropping as well. . . It was a sad. Poor Jackie. Missionary work certainly has its ups and downs.

But we went to Irene's house to help her with her garden, and that was fun!!!! :) :)

A different day this week we went up to Woonsocket and had a few stellar lessons. So happy about that. We're finally meeting with Angelica more often. I know there's gonna be a break-through soon. :) And we went to see Danielle Buhannen, the less-active who is coming back to church. Power-house lesson. She has an amazing goal to make it back to the temple, and she is willing to take the HUGE steps that are going to get her there. I'm so proud of her.

Carla is amazing. I'm pretty sure she's going to be baptized this month. We had a good lesson with her, then the Elders had an amazing lesson with her where they extended a baptismal date twice and gave her a blessing. She's praying about when she should be baptized. She already has a powerful testimony.

We walked around the Projects for a few hours because we have so many potential investigators there! Sister Lima was freezing. . . I got a sunburn. Haha. I'm so white!

A bunch of people came to church yesterday, which was wonderful! Carla, Angelica, Danielle, Shyanne. . . :) :) :) YAY! We're teaching Shyanne about the Word of Wisdom and the Law of Chastity tonight. Double whammy. Pray for us!

Gotta go, time is short and we have awesome plans. Sorry it's short! But I love you all! Don't forget me!

XOXOXOX

Sister Merkley
MBM Missionary

P.S. Can't wait for General Conference!

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