We
had a great experience Friday night and Saturday morning. We had planned to do
a service with a single Sister in our area Saturday morning to help move a
bunch of soil in her garden.
She
had also invited her neighbors, a husband, wife, son, and daughter to help.
When we got the call from the Zone Leaders Friday night about going to the big
service project at the Sampson Flats we were so excited to go to it and we made
all these plans how we could move our service to later in the day and
everything would be ok and that we would be able to do what WE wanted to do. So
we headed over to this Sisters house to talk to her and move the times around
and things so it was going to be no big deal, As soon as we got there we talked
for a few minutes and were just about to ask if we could move the time when her
neighbor came out of his yard to confirm for the next morning. My heart sank as
I realized that it was going to be really hard to get out of this now with him
here as I selfishly thought about my self. In our minds we decided to stick
with the original plan as we were there talking to the Sister and her neighbor
and confirmed it with them. Right after we did, this man started firing
questions at us like a machine, all about what we believe, why we are here, what
we actually do, how we do it. They were great questions and he had an honest
desire to know the answers. Were spoke for 20 min all about the Church and then
we had to leave to be home by nine. The next day we went (a bit sad) to the
service and were able to work side by side the great family and single sister.
After it all she told us how impressed here neighbor was with us and that he
always thought we were the weirdest, strangest people with know freedom and
that we were always forced to follow all the rules and things. But after
talking with us he said that his opinion was totally changed about who we were and what we did. Then the best part was
hearing this Sister bear her testimony of the experience on Sunday as she was
able to tell about how her neighbor was so helpful and able to learn more about
what we believe. We hope that the ward will catch the wave and start inviting
more as well. Sacrifice brings blessings, we really wanted to go to Sampson
Flats but we know that wasn't where we needed to be.
Thanks
for all you do love you all!!!!!
