Another week bites the dust!
Everything is going so well here in Garner! To think that I will probably be leaving in 4 weeks makes me really sad. But I will live these last weeks up!
Investigator update...
S... She had signed up to feed us last Monday. We were really looking forward to it. Earlier that day we get a text from her. It reads "sisters, its monday night. We are supposed to be having FHE. Will you bring a game?" We were in shock when we read this. We hadn't taught S about FHE. But she knew about it and she wanted that for her family. She is progressing so well now if she would just commit to a baptismal date!! Pray for her to have a desire to be baptized! She is just scared of the commitment. So anyways, our minds then begin racing of a fun game to play with them. We tried to think about classic mormon games their family might not know. Then the genius idea of "dont eat pete" came into my mind. Sister Treu then exclaimed that she loved that game. I thought that was a game only my family knew. But she had grown up playing it. It was also funny because the next day we were talking with elders and we told them about what we did and one of the elders said that he thought only his family knew about that game. Anyways, its a pretty awesome game. We made our own board the best we could and it was a hit. The poor 4 year old daughter got a little scared the first time we yelled "dont eat pete!" and started crying. I couldnt help but laugh because my dear sister Hannah would always start crying when we yelled it too loud too. (remember that Hannah ;) ). ha. We then continued the night on teaching them primary songs and reading the Book of Mormon. Great fun with one of my favorite families!
C... He is doing so well!! He is all ready to be baptized! He will be interviewed this week and then baptized next! He will forever probably be one of my most favorite investigators. I love them all but he has a little special place in my heart. This week we were teaching Him about prophets. We showed him a picture of President Monson. He said "oh yeah, I know him. He helped me find the mens restroom on Sunday". We laughed and then explained a little better that he isnt at our specific church. We then asked him if he believed President Monson was a prophet of God. He replied yes and then we asked him how do you know that. And in the most humble, sincere way he answered "because of faith". I am seriously amazed how much he really cant grasp a lot of things. But he is grasping the gospel!! You just cant deny the Hand of God helping him out.
M.. The cutest woman you ever will meet. Saturday was her quit smoking day! Last week she only smoked half a cigarette each day and now she is done. (hopefully no relapses). We went over and brought her some of her favorite candy and sang a little happy quit day song. She has a lot of faith and knows with Gods help she can do it! We went to a fireside at our Mission presidents home last night. This is a chance for new converts and investigators to bear their testimonies. M was the first one up and gave such a sweet testimony. We are so proud of her.
T (who is baptized) is doing well. She also bore her testimony at the fireside last night. She talked about how she has come to know God more fully in her life and that she knows if she continues to come to church and read and pray she can continue to grow closer to Heavenly Father and Jesus. I am so grateful she has that knowledge. Its very rewarding to know that the first day I met her she sure didnt know that. And to see how far she has come. That is definitely worth every sacrifice it takes to be on a mission!! We went to teach her this week and her mom expressed desire to learn more so we got to start teaching her! We think it will be a little slower with her mom but
hopefully she will also come to know of the same things to be true!
We had a great experience this week. We have been wanting to volunteer in the community for a while now and got to this week. Not only in the community, but more specifically we volunteered at the baptist church food pantry. We got there and it was like two aliens walked into the room. It was kinda funny to see peoples reactions to us. We just tried to be very friendly and nice and Christlike. We helped people get their food and walked them to the car. We hope to do this every week so we can leave a good impression and help them see that we arent crazies who believe in a different God than them.
We are happy as can be here in North Kakalacki.
Have you seen this video yet? If not, watch it now!
""Spiritual light rarely comes to those who sit in darkness waiting for someone to flip a switch. It takes an act of faith to open our eyes to the light of Christ."
Take that step of faith. Do what you need to do to get Christ more fully into your life. Whatever it takes, it will be worth it.
The church is TRUE!!! Gods love is REAL!!
Thanks for all your prayers and support!
Love,
Sister Judd
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