Well Tori is getting to give tours in Hiram at the John Johnson Farm! She is really excited to be a part of this special place and to get to testify of the truthfulness of Joseph Smith!! She will also keep going to the Kirtland sites on tuesdays and do tours there also!! Busy summer time at the Church History sites!! Busy busy Sisters!!
Sister Houston's email:
May 26, 2011
Hello family,
Wow! Mitch you have only 2 days left! I wonder how your feeling?!?! :)
Im excited for you and also very happy to hear you survived your talk yesterday! I bet you did fabulous. You should mail me a copy so i can read it! I would love that.
I hope everyone is doing well! Its been a good week for me. Saturday was our first day out at the Johnson Farm. We were there from 11:00 to 7:00. It sounds like a long day but it actually went by quite fast. Right now there are three senior couple assigned there that rotate shifts through out the day. Then there are two sets of sisters, us and the sisters serving in Ravenna who also will be rotating days with us. Saturday we had a good number of tours. We started off by just following and listening in on the senior couples tours. By the end of 3 or 4, we were asked if we wanted to give a couple rooms a try. No no no i said. Im not ready! Sister Morrell of course said yeah sure! ha dont judge i know im a big chicken. Ok so we started off the next tour to a seminary group. Sister Morrell did the first two rooms. She did awesome. Mean while all the other couples were ahead of us doing there own tours. While we were in the middle of it more people showed up. The moral of this story is that Sister Morrell and I ended up having to take a tour all by our selves. Of course the silly people had to show up all at one time right! Im pretty sure Heavenly Father was just telling me that i needed to just go in there and do it and since i was holding back he decided to provide a way. I was sooooo nervous but by the end i was just a little bit grateful that he basically made me jump right into it....just a little grateful :) I did my best and so did Sister Morrell. Im really looking forward to serving there and learning more about the history of the Church. The room where section 76 was revealed and where Joseph saw in vision God and Christ and the plan of salvation has a pretty awesome feel to it. Im a lucky Sister to have the opportunity to testify of Christ and of our Heavenly Father right there in that room. So cool.
As for the rest of the week, Bro. Gibson is still being pretty stubborn. We had another lesson with him on Wednesday. It went ok. Bro. Young and Bro. Garcia, the members that came testified and did amazing trying to help in any way they could. Right now Bro. Gibson is working 12 hour shifts and so whenever he has spare time all he wants to do is sleep or work on projects around the house. Since he's been extra tired and busy hes kind of lost his fire to learn about the church. But we know there is still a little desire somewhere within him...enough to keep us going back for at least a little while. We continue to pray for him and seek guidance from the Lord. Something just has to take place for him to have that burning fire to learn or its not going to go any where. Whatever happens I'll be fine with. I know that Heavenly Father knows his children the best. He'll just continue to prepare Bro. Gibson in whatever ways he needs so that someday he'll be ready for this wonderful gift.
Sister Morrell and I are continuing to find and teach. We are working with a couple of less active families and also a couple of new investigators. I'll have to tell ya about them next time. heehee we had a pretty funny experience with one this last week. Her name is Diane and for some reason she doesnt really feel comfortable meeting with us in her home so we went to a McDonalds. At the end we invited her to say the closing prayer. She looked at sister Morrell and I and said "well why dont we all say one. I feel we all have something to say" hmmm....we tried to kindly explain thats not quite how we do it but it didn't get through to her. So we ended up all saying a little prayer while holding hands, yes while holding hands, right there in the McDonalds. Talk about feeling pretty silly! I don't know if that was even right for us to do....hmmmm definitely a concern we'll have to address. it sure does make me laugh though!!!
Anyways, thats my week in a nut shell. I love you all very much! Your the best. I hope everything goes well this week with getting Mitch off. Good luck Mitch!! Make sure you write me whenever you can. You'll do great. Just always remember that your family and friends are praying for you and that your Heavenly Father loves you sooooo soooo much. He's called you to this work and He'll be right there beside you.
Have a great week!!!!
Love,
Sister Houston
PS we heard due to memorial day next monday we will be having p-day on tuesday....i think :) just wanted to let you know just in case!
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