2nd Week in Madison!!!

                                 March 24, 2014

                                                 

Hello Family and Friends!!

This past week started off really slow, but by the end of the week we were crazy busy which was really a huge blessing for me. Sister Shelton and I are getting along really well and we really do work well together. Last Tuesday we had District Meeting and we talked a lot about the importance of the Sacrament. We talked about how we are commanded to partake of the sacrament each week. We are commanded to remember our savior and his sacrifice for us and to renew our covenants and in return we are promised blessing from our Heavenly Father. I don't think I had ever really thought of the sacrament as a commandment before but I sure feel guilty now for all the times I missed partaking of it. It’s such a small thing that we are asked to do each week and in return we can receive so many blessings! Why wouldn't we be jumping at the chance to do each week?

 

A lot of our investigators have been gone or just aren't answering their phones and its been kind of hard our lessons keep being canceled. So Sister Shelton and I have both been praying that we would be able to find someone who is ready and willing to hear our message. On Thursday we decided we were going to stop by a potentials house and see how they were doing. We had been walking quite a ways when Sister Shelton realized that we had turned the wrong way at some point. We were just about to turn around and go back when we saw a guy walking towards us quite a ways up the street. We looked at each other and both knew that we needed to talk to him before we went back. So we started talking to him and he was just so great! His name is Jamal and he was so willing to listen to us and hear what we had to say. He gave us his number and address and we set up a time to go see him! Our appointment is actually with him tomorrow!! I can't even begin to explain what a huge blessing and answer to my prayer that was! I know that Heavenly Father is mindful of us and helped us find J----- that day. We turned the wrong way for a reason that day and I am so thankful that we did! Having that experience has brought us as a companionship even closer!

The little book sharing houses are so fun! They all look like the houses they belong too!

Yesterday we were able to meet an investigator family who's little boy is in the hospital because his finger got cut pretty much all the way off from a table falling on it. (don't worry they were able to save the finger it’s just going to be a bit shorter :) ) The sisters teaching them can’t drive all the way here to the hospital so they asked if we would stop by and visit them. It was so neat to listen to his families’ testimony! They are getting baptized on the 19th and they are just such a solid family. It was so neat to listen to them talk about all the blessing they've seen in their lives since learning about the gospel and accepting it in their lives. Listening to their testimonies helped me to remember why it is that I am out here. I'm here to help others find that same happiness that this family has found through this gospel!! I know at times its going to be really hard but I really am so excited about the next 17 months of my life!

Also real quick so riding the bus is really interesting and I've realized even more how sheltered I have been in Utah... the other day on the bus a guy sat next to me who had a grill that said LOVE.. ha ha I was so close to bursting out laughing when I saw it!  I didn't though so don't worry! I do really love it here though and the Ward is great!! Love you all!!!

Sister Hunter

I'd say this just about covers it wouldn't you.