Dearest family and friends,
This week has been pretty crazy. On Friday we got a call from the assistants. One of the Sisters in the 2nd Ward (we're Manassas 1) would be going home for a few weeks for some kind of medical procedure, and during that time, Sister Christiansen and I would be a trio with the Sister who is staying. We would also be covering both areas. On Saturday morning, we picked up Sister Liu and brought all of her stuff over to our apartment. So, we are now a trio!
Sister Liu is from Taiwan and has been out for 6 months. She is really sweet and a great missionary. She is also totally fearless when it comes to street contacting. She walks right up to people and starts talking to them. We're excited to have her, but we're feeling kinda overwhelmed to be covering two wards now.
Last week I mentioned Sister Morris, so I'll tell you more about her now. She is an older woman living with her adult son, Michael, who has autism. We go every day except Sunday to read the Book of Mormon with them. Sister Morris hasn't had an easy life, and she's still working through some terrible depression, and she LOVES when we come. She calls us her angels and tells us that it is because of us coming that she has been getting better. And she has made some amazing progress, in the few weeks that I've been here. She he has an amazing testimony, and she is so sincere. Visiting her is always great.
Our progressing investigators Patricia and her daughter Rafaela have committed to baptism. They were on date for March 28, but they didn't come to church yesterday, so we'll have to push it back to after general conference. We have another lesson with them on Thursday, and Patricia (who is from Brazil), told us that she is going to make us Brazilian food and feed us dinner. She's so sweet.
We taught two awesome lessons yesterday. One to a family from Ghana and one two a couple from India. The family from Ghana consists of the parents
- Sylvester and Yvonne, and their son who seems like he's 17ish, named Eugene. They are a nice family and Yvonne asks tons of questions. But they recognize us as servants of the Lord, and they love Jesus Christ. They are definitely honest seekers of truth. Inder and Pushpinder are a Sikh couple from India that live in the Manassas 2 area. They have been investigating for a while now. The husband (Inder), has a ton of faith, but he says that he still has more he needs to understand before he commits to baptism. The wife says she isn't interested at all, but she is very sweet and was happy to see us when we came came over. She sat with us while we read Alma 32 with Inder.
Earlier this week there was a giant snow storm. We did weekly planning and stayed inside until after dinner to do it. By then the snow had stopped, so it wasn't too bad when we went out. We aren't allowed to use the car when the weather is that bad, so we hiked through the snow to go knock on doors. It was crazy! My feet were frozen and numb by the time we got home. We made some good contacts, though. We found someone to refer to the Hermanas, and we got one return appointment for ourselves,
This week I hit my 1 month mark. Sister Christiansen stuck a candle in a Reece's peanut butter cup and lit it for me to blow out. So funny. :)
I love you all! The Church is true. :) Have a great week!
--Sister Taylor
P.S. This week I fell asleep under the table after nightly planning. No pictures of it, though.
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