knock, knock, knock

I was happy we were able to celebrate Thanksgiving with the Follets. They are an awesome family. She told me she wanted to call you to see if there was anything special that I like for Thanksgiving but she did not have your number. She called Hna B’s family. Her husband is super into family history. He was looking up Grandma’s side on some web site and then he found who I was related to and was very impressed ;) I didn’t tell him anything about my heritage because I thought it would be fun to see his reaction.

We went over early to the Follets on Thursday so we could help her cook. It was fun too. It reminded me of being home. After dinner we did a puzzle and you know how much I live puzzles!! :) She also sent us home with a weeks worth of left-overs!... though I am not sure they will last a week.

Ahhhh.. the kid next to me is listing to Breaking Benjamin super loud! super distracting! ....I am a child of God and he has sent me here, has given me an earthly home and parents kind and dear lead me guide me walk beside me........

I know I have told you about Jessica, the lady that works at the Dollar Tree. We finally met up with her again and set up an appointment with her. We met with her for the second time this week. She has a strong faith in God and knows our meeting was not accidental. She told us about her family that still lives in CA, the same part Hna B is from. The first time we met with her we taught her about the atonement and gave her a Plan of Salvation pamphlet. She has also had a lot of death in her family. She said she would read it. This past time we met with Jessica, Hna B and I did not have a clue what to teach her or what she needed to hear. We prayed and prayed on what we should teach her this week. We still did not know when we met up with her. When we started talking with her Hna B started talking about faith. Jessica is fluent in Spanish but prefers to read in English. Weeks ago I had put a English Book of Mormon in my backpack just in case we needed. So far we have not handed out an English one. When Hna B was talking about faith she asked if I could pull out my English scriptures. When I went to grab them I saw the blue English BOM, I pulled it out instead. We read from Alma 32. After awhile she asked if she could keep the book! Absolutely you can have it! we thought we were going to have to offer it to her. It truly was a spiritually guided lesson.

This week we have also been working on receiving more referrals. We had been blessed from our efforts. On one day we received 5. We had an appointment with one of our investigators; she ended up being sick and couldn't meet with us. We asked her if she new anyone that we could help or that spoke Spanish that we could talk to. She gave us three families we could visit and we asked those three if there was anyone one else we could talk to, they gave us more names. It was a snow ball effect from there.

From one of the referrals we met Suzanna. She let us in the very first time we knocked. After we were in her house we later found out she is a recent converted to the Jehovah Witness. We immediately thought " this ought to be interesting". The last Jehovah Witness we talked to said she was going to stick her dogs on us. Suzanna was very open and kind to us. We related trackting stories with her. She said she knows how it feels to have every door close so she let us in. We taught her a little about the Book of Mormon and left her with a copy and the Restoration pamphlet. She agreed to read the introduction. She also said we were welcome to come back anytime she was home. We went back yesterday night. She did read part of the Book of Mormon. Though she was confused on where it came from. She then asked us several questions about after life. We taught her the Plan of Salvation. She is still set on the Jehovah Witness beliefs of the afterlife. When we left we committed her to read the Book of Mormon and pray to know if it was true. She said she would.