NO Worries... the sisters are not in trouble or jail... just a silly person didn't like them in their neighborhood!!
How do two young ladies in skirts look suspicious? silly people...
Sister Houston's email
March 2, 2011
Hello Family!
Happy to hear everyone made it back safely from Disneyland! I'm excited to see pictures and hear all about it! Oh and I have to say I loved your little hotel note!! heehee thank you for thinking about me always!!!! even when your having fun :)
Well its been an eventful week full of tracting, member lessons and more tracting.....
One day while tracting in this really really rich neighborhood in a little town called Moreland Hills a grumpy person didn't like that we were wandering around their neighborhood. They decided to call the police on us. Silly people. Missionary work isn't illegal!! The police man was really nice. He just asked us who we were and what we were doing and then sent us on our way!
Then just yesterday Sister Lyman and I got chased out of someones yard by their big mean dog!! Literally ran for our lives! It was scary! I'm sure the owners had to be cracking up! We decided to just leave the passalong card on their mail box instead. Oh well I guess it has to happen to everyone at least once right.
Despite all of this we had a pretty neat experience tracting yesterday...
Sister Lyman and I were running behind schedule. We had meetings in Kirtland all morning and afternoon and got back to Solon around 4:00 . Dinner was planned at 5:00 but since we had a late lunch we both weren't hungry at all and we didnt have a member dinner that night so we were on our own for dinner. We felt like it was ok to continue tracting for a little longer instead, but prayed about it first. Continued to feel it was the right thing so off we went....
While tracting we met a lady named Kris. Kris is probably in her late 50s early 60s. Her and her husband Eddy have no kids just 2 cats. She was super friendly to us. Came right outside to talk. We had told her who we were and that we were looking for people to share a message about Jesus Christ with. I had asked if she was currently going to a church and she said "Oh no my backyard is my church". I was a little bit confused....wasnt quite sure what she meant by that. We kept talking and asking questions. The entire time I had felt the peace of the spirit with us. Kris doesn't know if God is an actual being or if he's just some sort of power. She finds peace in the beauty and nature of things. She had said that she's had experiences that have brought her a greater sense of peace and made her feel like their was someone aware of her. When she made the comment that she feels she is open minded enough that when she finds new information that she is suppose to believe in she will be open to except it, we had tried to help her see that maybe this was it. Her heart started to soften even more after that. She said she had such a good day and felt we were the icing on the cake! Kris didnt give us her number but she said we were welcome to come back. Based on the comments she made about her husband we feel he might be opposed to all of this and not to happy she was even talking to us. I don't know what will happen from here but it felt so good to know we were being lead by the Spirit to be at the right place at the right time. We don't know whats going on in the lives of others but Heavenly Father does. Its such a great blessing to be able to be someone he can act through for the blessing of his children.
Anyways, Marlayn is doing ok. Bad news though. She has decided to move to North Carolina after all. Sad for us. She cancelled her appoint this week because her little boy was sick and didn't come to church. We're praying things dont go south but know that the Lord's hand is in everything. If she's ready she is ready! We just have to work our hardest!
Well family i better get going. I love you all so much and miss you!! I think its about time I received some letters dont you???? heeeheee pretty please :)
I hope you all have a great week! Be happy and safe!
Love,
Sister Houston
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