January 25, 2010

This week was both good and sad. I think it is best if we start out with the sad stuff.While we were at church yesterday Ember's grandpa called us. He is the one that called the mission office to get us to go out to Glenwood and teach her. Well he had to leave us a message, because we were in church, and after Sunday school I asked Sister Pabst to check the phone... not a normal thing. Well Brother Griffith called and said that Ember didn't want to meet with us anymore and she doesn't want to get baptized and she doesn't want to go to church... SAD!! I'm really sad about that! I love that girl, but I would imagine it would be hard to get baptized at ten years old and not have any family support. Maybe one day she will be ready.Then the other sad thing is that we weren't able to meet with Timmy and Leanne Quesenberry this week. They were really busy with work. However, good news, they were both at church yesterday and we are going to meet with them tonight. I'm really excited we are going to commit her to baptism for the sixth of February. I'm really excited about them. GOOD NEWS!!We have been meeting with a lady named Ashley and last week Sister Pabst asked her if her husband would be interested in learning, and she said yes. SO, we taught them this week. The lesson was great, and we are going to see them again on Tuesday. We are planning to challenge them to be baptized. We are in need of prayers on this one. But I think they are ready. When we were teaching Scott Ashley was answering some of his questions. That was exciting for us. I like them a lot!Also last week we had the Freemans (less-active family) come to stake conference, and then we taught them the Plan of Salvation during this week. Tiny (Sister Freeman) was telling us that she was trying to tell her Sister-in-law about the plan, and that she was really glad she would be able to now. Those kind of days are paydays for missionaries. My mom always says that there are paydays for parents (High School graduation). Now I think I understand that just a little. We had some paydays this week.