Hello! I got the package--thanks for sending everything! Toothpaste was even on my shopping list for this week--so thanks for that! I loved the photobook, and Sister Townsend and I are really excited for new music. =)
The two teenagers we found last week are progressing really well. We have them on date to be baptized May 28th...the trick is going to be getting their mom's permission (and figuring out if their dads have any legal rights over them...they're in a really disfunctional family situation...so it might not even be their mom we should be working on. Who knows). It's been great to see the ward embrace them.
Another of our investigators surprised us by coming to church yesterday with her member husband. People seemed to really be welcoming towards them. We have another appointment with them tonight, so we'll see what she thought. Her main problem is with Joseph Smith, but I don't think she'sreally reading the Book of Mormon to find out if it is true. She already has a lot of LDS beliefs, but I think she's just read too much anti stuff and she's not willing to let the majority of that go yet. Hopefully church yesterday and our meeting with her tonight can help her with that.
Things are going really well in our YSA branch. One of the elders in the branch introduced us to his girlfriend, and she is SO prepared!! She's already read Our Search for Happiness, and she already believes everything she read in that, so pretty much we're just making sure she understands everything and having her read the Book of Mormon. She says she had a friend growing up that was LDS, and they've been talking a lot. I'm sure her friend is so excited for her; I know I am! She definitely already has the "look" and--miracle!--she currently is trying to get Sundays off at work, and sheunexpectedly got work of yesterday, so she also surprised us at church yesterday! So many wonderful surprises!
One of our investigators has been really sick since our first lesson with her, and we were contemplating dropping her, but we were finally able to meet with her again! She still sounds interested, and our lesson went really great. She was completely ready to come to church...and then she got sick again! !
But! Thankfully the Elders in her home ward are working with her recent-convert mom a lot still, so they're able to stop by and see her pretty often (the YSA branch is over two stakes, so she lives quite far away from our ward area...) and they keep us updated. They referred us to her, so they're really interested in her conversion as well. It's great to have their help.
So something different we did this week was the district service project at the senior center. That was quite fun; I really got to know the Elders in our district better. Mostly we talked about BYU sports. We came to the conclusion that we are all severely deprived of sports news...did any of the BYU players get drafted? Did the Colts get anyone good? Where did Cam Newton end up going? How did the labor agreement work out? Also...has there been any news on where Jimmer's going?
Let's see...I'm trying to think if there's anything exciting I can tell you. Last night we joined the YSA branch for their break the fast potluck and watched the CES Fireside. The General Primary President spoke (I don't know if you watched it/recorded it). She spoke on what we need to do to strenghten our testimonies and how to follow the Lord's plan for us. I thought it was quite enjoyable! You should definitely look it up if you didn't watch it.
Afterwards we went with a recent convert of the branch and a few other branch members to our mission Cottage Meeting--a handful of recent converts speak on their conversion and their testimony and missionaries are invited to bring their investigators or newly returning members or people they want to encourage to do missionary work. Our recent convert spoke--he was another one that was REALLY prepared...like, he quit smoking and drinking on his own a month before he met the missionaries for (what he then thought was) no reason...amazing!--and he brought his 17 year old sister...and she wants to meet with us now! She was really luke-warm about being there at frist, but she's definitely excited to learn now that she's heard her brother's story and the stories of the other converts that spoke last night. It was a really awesome meeting--everyone that spoke was really prepared, and the underlaying theme seemed to be that the Lord really does have a plan for us and that He really does have us in mind at all times. She's not in our ward, but we'll probably meet with her at first. So exciting! Yay!
Anyways...I had a small request. Do you think you could look on the BYU Faculty Directory and get me the office addresses for Dr. Stan Knapp and Dr. Jason Carroll? They're some of the professors that I got to know really well, and I'd like to send them a quick note telling them about how I'm doing.
I hope everyone's doing well! Later today we're allowed to do a quick 5 min. "pre-call" home...Sister Townsend is getting her haircut at 2:30, and then we're going to be calling after that probably, so hopefully you'll be home! On Sunday I'll be calling around 7pm and I'll be able to talk for about half an hour.
Thanks again for the package! Love you all and talk to you this afternoon...if not, Sunday!
--Sister Heather Holdsworth
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