Good afternoon family!
This past week has been pretty exciting.. Good things are
happening here in our area. We have been very blessed to have a new investigator
that is progressing quite well. Pam had met with the missionaries once in 2009
and at that point, either got too busy or ended up losing interest. Every once
in a while, missionaries had made contact with her, but she was still too busy.
Elder May and I felt pretty good about trying her, so we did! Our first time
meeting her, I was feeling pretty sick and it was a cold day.. As we talked to
Pam, we found out she was having problems with one of her feet, so we offered to
shovel her driveway/sidewalk. She told us that she wouldn't ask us to do that,
so we asked "hypothetically, if we shoveled it, would you be upset?" She of
course, said no, so we shoveled her driveway and got her phone number to get in
contact and set something up. I may have mentioned this last week, but she had
something crazy happen where she ended up going in the hospital for a few weeks
and we lost contact. Luckily, we got in contact with her again and things are
matching up with her schedule. We've had some good lessons with her and set up
to do a church tour with her this past week. It went really
well!
We got to the Church before hand and got things set up. We
turned the lights on, got the heat going, set up the Sacrament trays, and made
it look as alive as possible. Pam and a member came and we took them on a tour!
We focused a lot on the pictures and answered a lot of Pam's questions. It
really stuck out to me how much our Church buildings focus on the Living Christ.
Rather than pictures of the crucifixion and Christ on the cross, the pictures
are all focused on his teachings and his resurrection. That was a little bit of
an eye opener that I hadn't had before. How wonderful is it that we know the
most important part of Christ is that he's living rather than his death? It was
all a part of God's plan and truly is a joyous gospel!
Toward the
end of the tour, we watched the Church movie, "The Restoration". It was really
great! I felt the Spirit really powerfully as we talked about the Restoration
and then went into the Chapel to talk about the Sacrament. It was a great finale
to the tour and the perfect place for all of us to pray together. I really hope
that Pam recognized the Spirit as we did the tour and continues to
progress.
During our Church tour, Sister Grant was getting her
baptismal interview... She is good to go! This Saturday, May 10th, at 6 PM,
Sister Grant will be getting baptized! It's going to be a birthday to remember.
The best part is that my Birthday this year will be focused on someone else. I
don't want it to take away from Sister Grant's special day at all. It'll be
good. :) After she had her interview, they came and were a part of the rest of
the Church tour. And Brother and Sister Grant are coming to our lesson with Pam
tonight! It should be great. We're going to ask Sister Grant to invite Pam to
come to her baptism.
Besides that, Elder Wendt and I are doing
good. There was an emergency transfer here with the Sisters.. Sister LeBaron was
very likely leaving at transfers anyway, but because a Sister got sick she ended
up leaving on Thursday. We all met up right before she left and we took a bunch
of pictures together. Here we are!
As you can tell, I cut my hair this week... It's short! Sister LeBaron is the
one standing next to me and she is now in Binghamton (right by Owego!). I'm sure
she's doing great. It just goes to show that you never know what's going to
happen in life! You just need to be flexible and do whatever the Lord asks.
Trust in the Lord with all thy heart, and lean not to thine own
understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy
paths.
I love you all. I hope you're doing good and I look forward
to "seeing" you later this week. Have a great week!
-Elder Hussey
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