Billy- He is the cousin of the Gardner family. Brother Garnder is the family history consultant here, he is also the teacher for the Preach my Gospel class that we have every wednesday. Billy broke his arm recently while he was racing his lawnmower(I haven't heard of lawn mower races before, but they are big in this area.) We were able to teach him this past week for the first time and we set him with a baptismal date of Oct 16th. We're really going to try teaching him a lot and get him ready for that. He seems like he could very easily keep that date, so we're excited about that.
Alex and Nicole- I believe that Alex is getting disability, and Nicole works at a store around here( Hannaford I think) They have been "investigating" for a while. They like us but don't really keep their commitments too faithfully, they say that they will, but don't follow through. Alex just had an uncle die, we were going to teach him the plan of salvation, left him the reading for it, and wehn we came over to teach him he said it wasn't a good time. It always makes me wonder- "not a good time? It is the best time to learn of the plan of Happiness! when you need it!" But oh well I guess we've gotta respect his agency. They said they would call us after his birthday+funeral for uncle on thursday.
J.R. Spicci- Married to a member who just moved out to Utah in July to be by her family- She doesn't like it-her family and her aren't getting along, so she wants to move to idaho or Arizona now. He is staying here and working every hour that it is light. We have been really blessed in being able to catch him at just exactly the right moments, he probably spends about 10 minutes at his house every 3 days(During the hours we can work) 10am-9PM We caught him last night and talked to him for 8 of the ten. It was awesome. He knows that the church really teaches good things and that it helped him when he gave up coffe and tea, but then he kinda got upset at someone, and since then he has been really slow at progressing(went back to drinking coffee and tea) and now he doesn't want to join until he feels he can put his heart into it, he thinks that the way thats gonna happen is through a sign(witness) we talked to him last night about the parable of the pickle, and what it would mean/how you could tell if the church were true. But I think that the way for him to get his answer is to use the light he already has, to start praying, reading his scriptures again, give up those bad habits that he knows he should, before expecting more. God's not going to open doors you aren't ready to go through. I was thinking about the opening of China for missionary work. I realized that there are a whole lot of people in China! I wonder if we would even have enough missionaries to cover that area! I realized that China will open when the Church is ready to care for it. We probably need lots more missioanries, and that should be what I pray for first, then when we are prepared, the door will swing open. Same thing with JR, When he is prepared and willing to be baptized, the Lord can witness that it is the right thing, and open the door.
Mimi- Mimi has a simmilar story. She still smokes, she is older and fairly set in her ways, luckily some of those ways include personal revelation. She loves to know that she is doing what God wants, she just doesn't immediately accept what He wants her to do. She knows that He wants her to quit smoking but she is kinda fighting if she wants to or not. She is an interesting Character, I am not sure what we are going to do. Write more next time.
Elizabeth Baez- We found out that she just lost two sons and their friend in a swimming accident, they both had girl friends, on the funeral for the two boys, the 19 year old's girlfriends had a baby, and the 17 year old brother's girl found out that she was pregnant. Crazy huh? But Elizabeth wants to learn more so we are going to get to teach her sometime with a member(Her husband drives truck and so is never around.)
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