Good morning! We had a great week last week. The weather has been beautiful, but the word on the street is that it is going to change, and soon. People say that they feel an early Fall and Winter coming on and it could happen as soon as before I leave. I hope it doesn't. At the same time, however, people aren't that great at predicting weather up here. Pretty much everything that has been predicted has been false or late or early.
It is always a bittersweet time to see a missionary you love go home, especially when he's your companion. I really loved serving with Elder Williams. He was a great, bold, and powerful teacher. I will be staying in Sandpoint for my last transfer, and my new companions name is Elder Cahoon, and I am way excited for that. I've served around him before and he is such and optimistic and enthusiastic missionary. By the way mom, I totally forgot to tell you last week, yes I did get the card, thank you very much=)
We had an awesome miracle happen to us last week. We were tracting in a trailer court and ran into this guy named Chris outside with his three kids. We started talking to him about the church and he told us he was already invited to go to a church that week. We asked him where and he described exactly where our church is in Sandpoint, so we told him. As it turns out, he worked with a member from our ward named Katie and she invited him to come to church with her. His wife recently left him and he is in a real humble spot right now, and he really wants to learn about the church. So he went to church last Sunday and we met up with him for a lesson on Tuesday. When we went over, someone else that we had tracted into that previous day, who was not interested was over at his house. His name is Donnie. We started teaching both of them and they are both committed to reading the Book of Mormon and praying.
I just love member missionary work. There is no way that Chris would be as interested as he is if his member friend hadn't talked to him. I love the push that is going on with members and missionaries working closer together. The Sunnyside ward is on fire right now, especially our bishop. He is working so hard to change the culture of the ward toward missionary work, and he is leading by example.
There is good news about Heidi as well. All of the legal things that needed to get done before she could be baptized are coming together and it's looking like she can get baptized either by the end of August, or sometime in September. I may have said this before, but Heidi is without a doubt the most prepared and converted person I have ever taught on the mission. She makes an effort to read the Book of Mormon every day, and come to church every week, no matter what else is going on in the week, and it shows. She is so spiritual and strengthening her testimony every day.
Lastly, we might be able to start teaching this family who has been coming to church for about 8 months now and haven't ever met with missionaries. They are not members, but come to all three hours of church every week, pay tithing, and their daughter wants to be baptized. It's kind of a long story of why the missionaries haven't taught them, but suffice it to say that we will hopefully start teaching their daughter either the end of this week or sometime next week.
Thats about it from me this week. Great things are happening here. Great miracles. I love you all, and have a great week too=)
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