Sept 9

Dear Family and Friends,

Is it Monday already?! Wow this week flew! I forgot to mention last week that I will be emailing every monday at about this time. Last week just got messed up because of Labor day and the Library where we email being closed.

So this has been a wonderful week here in Wake Forest, NC. My companion Sister Fullmer who has been here 5 months says the work is busier now than its ever been so we are grateful for that.

We have been teaching a lot and hoping to have more investigators! Two miracle stories of the week.

First is with our investigator B. Our prayers for her parents hearts to be softened so she can get baptized are being answered! We had turned B to the Bisop so they could get to know eachother. After the interview the bishop decided he wanted to go over and meet B's father and see more of the situation she is living in and how he can help. Well he decided he wanted to bring a member with him. The member he brought just so happened to know B's father! They were both surprised to see eachother. B's father then was more receptive to what they had to say and realized the church might not be so bad for his daughter. We are so grateful for the inspiration the bishop recieved to bring Brother D with him! It was truly inspiration from God and we are grateful!

Our second miracle is with a lady named M and her two kids. We were looking through our area book on Saturday of doors we could knock on of past investigators. We came across M's name and decided to knock on her door. She answered and told us she had been church hopping but that missionaries had taught her before and she just loved how the church was so family oriented. She wanted us to come back the next day when her kids were home. So we went back yesterday and let us right in. Her kids (age 11 and 7) are some of the most well behaved children I have ever met and were so excited to have us there. She said that everytime she would pray about what church to go to or whenever she felt alone missionaries would knock on her door. She also said that a member from our church dropped by a plate of cookies to her house last Christmas. Someone she didnt even know. She now keeps the plate that the cookies came on on her counter because it makes her feel loved and that someone is watching over her. She even said she sometimes reads the Book of Mormon past missionaries have left her to her kids at night. Talk about golden!  She recently went through a divorce and is feeling very alone. We are grateful for the inspiration we recieved to knock on her door and know that Heavenly Father sent us there. We are going back again tonight to share a message with her. She is so prepared to hear the Gospel and we know good things will come of it!

I love doing this work and I love teaching people about this Gospel!

A scripture I found this week that I love is Moroni 7:45-46

45 And charity suffereth long, and is kind, and envieth not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, and rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

46 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, if ye have not charity, ye are nothing, for charity never faileth. Wherefore, cleave unto charity, which is the greatest of all, for all things must fail—

Now replace the word charity with the word Christ.

Without Christ we are nothing!

The picture is Sister Fullmer, N and me yesterday at church. N is our best friend. She is a member here from this ward who leaves on her mission this wednesday to Argentina. She gave her farewell talk yesterday. She has spent much time going on exchanges with us and driving us places so we dont have to waste miles or ride our bikes. We will miss her greatly!

I love you all and hope all is well with everyone! You are all in my prayers! Thanks so much for your love and support.

-Sister Judd