On Tuesday we went to help Yvonne with something she does called Cards of Love. She writes cards to shut-ins and people who are sick, and she needed some help organizing all her cards, so we went over to help. As we did, we also talked about the Restoration and the Plan of Salvation to see how well she had understood what we had taught, and it seemed like she really did get it. We had another lesson set up with her for Friday, but she called us on Thursday to let us know that she had gone to the ER the night before and would be seeing doctors on Friday and wouldn't be able to meet with us. Please pray for her!
On Thursday we had an appointment with a man named Hal that we met last week. He normally hangs out in his garage and works on his cars. We went and knocked on the door, and when he didn't answer, we knocked on the garage. He never answered, but we were laughing the whole time because of how funny we must have looked knocking on a garage. Missions are funny.
Last week (I forgot to mention this in my last email), we had a HILARIOUS tractinig experience. We knocked on a door, and after few seconds, we saw someone appear at the door. All we could see was the very dtop of someone's head through the window at the top of the door. Just this little bit of gray hair. Whoever it was just started at us through the peephole. We waved and smiled, but the door never opened. Finally, we just gave up, and yelled, "Happy New Year!" before walking away and practically falling over because we were laughing so hard.
On Friday we were out tracting and we met two people who want us to come meet with them again. The first one was Bobby. He was an older man riding a bike, and when we waved at him, he stopped to talk to us. We taught him a little about the Restoration, and he was open and interested in learning more. He told us two or three stories about how he survived crazy car wrecks and told us we were beautiful at least three times. We get hit on so much out here. We aren't sure how promising he is, but it was a funny experience at least! Later we knocked on the door of a woman, and she let us right in. Her name was Patricia and she said she had met with missionaries a few years ago before she moved to Alexandria. She was Catholic and told us that her priest had told her it was a sin to pray with someone of another faith or accept any literature from them. She said that really bothered her, because she had thought that the last missionaries had been great people and didn't see anything wrong with what they said or gave her. We taught her that truth comes form God, and if she learns something new, she should pray about it instead of just going off of a priest's word, or even our word. She really liked that and asked us to come back!
On Saturday morning we decided to go help the ward clean the church. It was fun and brought back great memories of cleaning the church with the family when I was younger. It is such a great thing that the Church does to have the members all help to clean it. After that we played basketball with the daughter (named Rachel) of less active father and non-member mother. She is 12 and brought one of her friends. Another 12 year old from another ward (since our ward doesn't have any yw) also came. We had a ton of fun. The three of them played against Sister Walton and I. And.....they kicked our trash. It probably didn't help that we had Rachel's 6 year old brother on our team who kept passing the ball to his sister instead of us. Haha.
On Sunday, Gloria came to church! She is still doing well, but definitely still needs all of your prayers as she keeps learning and her faith keeps growing. She is so awesome!
I love you all and I hope you have a good week! Remember that Heavenly Father loves you and is sooo completely aware of you and everything you face each day.
Sister Taylor Pictures:
We took a little break from basketball to take some pictures :)
The Potomac River!
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