Letter # 16

Sent:	Mon 6/10/13 12:18 PM

 

I got your letter in the mail!! Thank you so much! I feel like i've been a little out of the loop with everything that's going on back home but your letter helped with that :) It sounds like everyone is doing well!

I hope Chels and Blake can find a new place to live and that everything will work out! Tell Ry to not get too burned out with school and work and everything. I don't know why but i've been thinkin about him a lot and kinda worried about him lately... I hope he's doing good though.

That's awesome that Tyler and Stacie got a place closer in town! When you told me about Carter and her potty training, it made me smile and laugh so hard! I can just see her saying that with her little attitude :D

So this past week was kind of a rough one. All of our appointments fell through and it seemed like nobody wanted to talk to us. We did lots of tracting and some people are just plain RUDE!

Plus it's getting miserably hot here so it's kind of hard to enjoy it when you feel like your skin is just gonna melt off.

BUT there was also an incredible miracle that happened. So, on Tuesday we went to see a potential investigator and we talked to her on her doorstep for about 20 minutes. Her husband came home and she said why don't we go inside and sit down and have a glass of water. We went in and they just started asking all of these questions about Mormons!

It was great!! We talked for almost 2 1/2 hours and they told us about this really hard struggle they're going through right now with their daughter. They also told us about this home group that they have each week where they get together with different denominations/ religions and just discuss the bible and what the other faith believes.

They asked us if we would be interested in going to one of them and participating.

We said of course and were super excited about it all! When we left their home we couldn't stop smiling and talking about how great they were and how truly prepared they are to hear the gospel! Anyway, on Thursday we went tracting. We didn't know which street to tract so we prayed and asked for guidance to know where there were people who are prepared to hear about the restored gospel. When we were finished praying, a street popped into my head.

I told Sister Marble we should try Sturgeon. She said that she had already tracted that street a couple of weeks ago but if they weren't ready then, then maybe they're ready now.

So we were knocking on doors when we came to this one house. The guy opened the door and said, "Sorry, but we're having our home group right now, and don't really have time." Sister Marble and I looked at each other. Home Group? We immediately thought of Monte and Marlow (the potentials) and then all the sudden Marlow pops her head out the door and says, "that's them!" She told us that right before we knocked on the door they had been talking about these two girls (us) that had come to their house and answered a lot of their questions. They invited us in and asked if we would be willing to answer more questions from the rest of the group! We were stoked!!!!!!

They had a lot of crazy questions and I thought to myself, where do people come up with these things?? Before we left they told us that we represent the church well and that we should be proud of what we are doing. One of them said he admires our bravery and they all said that they would love for us to come back because they want to know more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When we left, Sister Marble and I were ecstatic!! We honestly could not stop smiling! There is no way that was a coincidence! We still have little freak outs about it every now and then.

I seriously love this gospel and this work! I know that Heavenly Father is guiding our very footsteps and I can't imagine being anywhere else at this time in my life.

Also, we have Zone Conference tomorrow and those are always the best!

Oh! And President Young gave us a referral from a previous missionary that is home now and we went and saw them! They are so GOLDEN! They have these 3 little girls that have the most beautiful blue eyes! I am so excited to meet with them! One of their kids might be 8 so that would be awesome if we're able to teach the whole family!

So... remember the guy Kevin I told you about? Well he turned out to be a total creeper so we dropped him :( There seems to be a lot of those around here.....
Anyway, thank you so much for sending Trevor that package! It seriously means the world to me!! I am also so grateful that you and Janiece have been corresponding with each other. It makes me so so so SOOOO happy! You two should go and do a temple session together or something! That would be cool :) I wish I could go to the temple! I miss it A LOT!!

So... you asked what I would like for my birthday. Well, I kind of need some more skirts but I am going to look for some today and see what I can find. And I would really like the EFY 2012 CD and possibly the EFY 2006 CD.  I'm not really sure what I need but I will try to think of some things. Oh, will you send me some of my CD's that were in my car too! Um... i'm not really sure what else. Sorry.

Oh! So another cool thing happened. Last Saturday we got a call from a Utah number and it kinda made my stomach drop, I thought it was someone from home calling but it obviously wasn't. It was a guy named Parker Tripp. He is from St.George and was in Grants Pass for the week and wanted to know what time church was. After we were done talking I was like Hey!

I know him! He was in my YSA ward back home! He wasn't at church the next day but on Monday we were walking down the street and these two guys said Hi Sisters! We were surprised cause nobody does that. Haha they came up to us and started asking where we were from and stuff like that.  I told him that he was in my ward back home and that I used to be his wife's visiting teacher. We saw them the next day too. It was kinda funny and weird to see someone from home. Anyway, he said that his wife was friends with me on FB and that he heard something crazy but didn't know if he should say anything but was curious if it was true.  I knew exactly what he was talking about (Me and Trevor serving in the OEM) He thought that was pretty cool and I was like yeah, I know :) jk i didn't say that but i was thinking it!

I love you so much and hope that you have a wonderful week!

I love you!!

Love,

Sister Hall :)

P.S. I haven't gotten your package yet but i'm sure it will come sometime! Thanks mom!!!