jan 19

Hello! 

This has been a wonderful week! Nothing really exciting or extraordinary happened but things have just been great. We are two happy girls doing the best we can to spread God's word. 

We were able to get in with a lot of people we havent been able to for a while so that was wonderful! We love when people let us in. And we had more lessons taught this week than I have had here in Durham yet. So no complaints here! 

We got 2 new investigators this week! J who is 13 and E who is 11. They are a cute family from Ghana Africa. The Spanish sisters in the area ran into them and taught them a little about Joseph Smith and then they were referred to us. We went by on Saturday and were just amazed. The mom doesn't understand much English but was totally fine with letting us in and teaching her children. The dad was asleep in the back room. The kids remembered everything the other sisters had taught them. We taught them about the Book of Mormon and they were just so engaged and wanted to learn all about it! I think E is a kid genius. We had them read a passage with us and then E was able to put it in his own words and explain exactly what it was saying. Most adults we teach dont even do that! They are a very spiritual family and we hope to be able to get the parents engaged in some way as well! They have such great potential. 

This Sunday every ward in our mission is participating in  ' Invitation Sunday'. We have been preparing for this for a while now. OurSunday meetings are supposed to visitor friendly. Now yes, visitors are welcome every Sunday and yes every Sunday should be invitation Sunday but this one is going to be special. We have been pushing members to invite lots of friends, and family, and anyone they meet. The talks in Sacrament meeting will be based on simple true doctrine that we believe. We will be having some people who recently joined the church share their testimony. The ward choir will be singing with the Primary Children as special guests. We as the missionaries will be teaching a Sunday School class about the church Christ set up when he was on the earth and Christs church today. Then we will have regular relief society and priesthood meetings. We are really hoping and praying that a lot of people will come and participate and see what the Mormons are really about! 

I hope all is well wherever you are! 

Love, 

Sister Judd