WORKING HARD

Sister Houston's email:
July 11, 2011

Hey family,
Well, how is everyone?? Im doing good. Its been a good week...
Lets see where to start...
Well, Barbara was busy with her family all week so unfortunately we were not able to meet with her. Her daughter had surgery and she's had her grand kids over. Our last lesson with her was on Sunday, the one I emailed home about. After that lesson we scheduled a time to come back tonight, which is still on by the way. Yay!
Usually we try to have daily contact some how with all our investigators to help keep them on track and meet with them at least once a week. We were kind of worried about the long gap with out seeing or talking to her. hee hee its probably not long to her, right, but to us its a pretty long time. A WHOLE WEEK!! But....the Lord provided a way for us to see her :)
Thursday morning we had an appointment set up with someone we tracted into who lives right across the street from Barbara actually. He was a no show. We even got a member to come. As we were talking to the member about his less active wife, Barbara came outside! She had visitors so we waited a little bit before we headed over to say hello. It was great. She told us about her daughters surgery and called us later that night to let us know everything went well. We are very excited to see her tonight and hopefully she will come to church on Sunday!

Ok anyways, Sister Morrell and I had another way cool experience while tracting this week. We were tracting a street that had a bunch of cars parked along the side. There was a hidden park somewhere back in the trees. Some kind of game was going on...maybe baseball. I dont know but anyways there were people coming and going from this little path way. We talked to everyone we could. Most were not interested. We continued down the road and we see this young man walking up the side walk on the opposite side of the road. I had a thought to go talk to him. Then i selfishly started to make up excuses not to like "oh he's to young" or "he's walking to fast its to late". Then, my wonderful companion who was receiving the same prompting as I was thinking these things yelled out "hey you! Can we talk to you for a minute?" Matthew, thats the young man's name, walked right on over surprisingly with out any hesitation. We ended up talking to him for a good 15 minutes or so. Matthew is not religious mostly because of his parents but he has lots and lots of questions that he wants answers to. We set up a time to go back this next week. It was a great experience. Another eye opener for me! We pray everyday for the Lord to put people in our path. He does and the Spirit is there to prompt us, but we wont know it until we act on those promptings.

Well, thats all for now. I love you family. I love the gospel and know its true. Its a blessing to know that there is more to our lives then just living. Our choices have meaning! They are preparing us for the eternities.

Have a great week!!!!

LOVE,
Sister Houston

P.S. I need some mail!!