I am so amazed at this week! So when I
came into this area the sisters didn't have a phone. They had lost it
the Monday before I came so we have been trying to survive without a
phone for almost 2 weeks now. Well, it turns out that the sister before
me ended up accidentally taking it HOME to Missouri...! She was able to
send it back to us and we finally got it on Friday. Such a miracle. We
still have no idea how it ended up in her bag though. It was a good
laugh though. So now that we have a phone it has been so much easier and
the work has been able to go better. We did our best without it, but we
felt that the work came to a halt a little bit. Once we got the phone
we made LOTS of calls :) We had a total of 16 voice mails. That was a
fun evening.
We have a baptismal date coming up on May 30th
and we are so excited! Dawn is such a sweetheart. She is probably in her
50s or 60s and her best friend, Jenny, is a less active in our ward. It
is so cool to have someone come back to church and bring a nonmember
with them. That is truly being Amulek :) Jenny and Dawn are both working
together and are great support for each other. They want to got to the
temple someday and do work for their past family members. It has been
such a wonderful thing to see as they have really wanted to change and
come unto Christ. Please pray for Dawn as she is getting close to her
baptism. We know that the adversary is going to really try to hit her
hard. We always help her to remember that these last few weeks are going
to be the hardest. We are really praying that things will be able to go
smoothly. There will be a big ward party right after the baptism at a
park so that should be fun.
We are also working with April.
The sisters have been working with her for about a year I think. She is
practically a Mormon, but she is having a hard time quitting smoking.
She is so close to baptism though so it has been a little frustrating.
President Cutler will actually be coming with us to April's for a lesson
this week. I am a little nervous because I have never had President
Cutler come to a lesson before. Haha I hope I can teach well. It will be
good too though because I think he will be able to talk some sense into
April. I will let you know how that goes next week :)
On
Saturday night we had a lesson with the Munks. They are members and they
live a bit further out, Waupaca (I always just think of an alpaca when I
hear this), there so we only see them every once in a while besides
church. It was a wonderful lesson about the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Brother and Sister Munk have such wonderful testimonies and we were able
to have a great discussion. I felt like I was home because they
reminded me so much of my parents. Sister Munk is just this cute little
lady that just wants to take care of you and Brother Munk has such a
great testimony, but really has a sense of humor. I could sincerely feel
their love for me even being someone they just met! I am excited to be
in this ward and to get to know all the members.
Sister Munk
works at a little shop in Waupaca that sells souvenir things and also
jewelry and fudge. We got some yummy fudge and that is where I got this
giant PB cup too.
I hope you all have a wonderful week! I love you all and I will see you soon!
Love Sister Emily Sarah Eaton
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