Lynette's letter ends abruptly. She's told us the library computer shuts off after 30 min. so it must have shut off. I'm so grateful we received what we did.
Love, Mother Lynette
7-1-13
Minha querida familia,
It has been crazy here in SC with lots of flooding and I think we've had thunder and lightning everyday but I just love itJ Makes me feel like a real missionary out there getting soakedJ And people always feel bad and let us in and then find out we're Mormon and sometimes aren't as excited to have us there but that's okay its great! I also have accumulated 69 mosquito bites on my legs so I am trying to be better about that, because my comp and I are just scratching all the time, but this week really has been wonderful!
Yesterday we got to speak to all the adults in the ward and tried to get them more fired up about missionary work. We have such an awesome bishop and RS Pres. that we've been working with to try to get the members more involved and the meeting went really well! I think they could tell I was a little bit passionate about what I was talking about. J We had a couple of members come up to us afterward and give us friends/family members to visit so I was really excited about that. We also just got a new ward mission leader who is going to be awesome so I think this ward is really going to start picking up in the next couple weeks. I went on exchanges up to Goose Creek for 2 days and was inspired by the sister I met up with there to be better at recognizing the miracles everyday. I've found that sometimes I get so excited about just go, go, go and ‘what’s next’ that I forget to appreciate the blessings I already have. So I've made a goal to find the miracles every day and I've found that we get blessed with A LOT of them!
One of the coolest experiences this week: We've been working with less-actives a lot more lately and we had one particular lady who has never let the missionaries in and has always been a bit negative toward them. We decided we were going to go stop by. She told us she was so busy and didn't have time, but we just kept talking to her through the glass door for probably 15 minutes and just got to know her and eventually she let us in (we get a lot of sympathy since we're either dripping from sweat or rain all the time. there is no in between.) After talking to her in there a little while she started crying and said her dad was a ward mission leader and how much he loved missionary work. He died a few years ago and she was very close to him, but she's had some issues with the church with her husband being a non-member and having homosexual family members. We got into talking to her about the plan of salvation and she admitted she never gained a testimony of her own growing up even though she went to seminary every day and church and everything. We challenged her to pray about a few things and she totally opened up and she admitted she mostly was just scared to find out it was true and have to change. But she is wonderful and invited us to come back over for dinner this week.'
We had another miracle with our investiga
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