Carlson Clan Adventures and Projects

I love Sundays!! Saw Bob Manning singing with the choir at the World Wide Conference , and we got to listen to several Apostles and the Prophet! That was one of the coolest experience on my mission. President Barry is going to be released next week I think. Since they live in Provo, you should consider going to their homecoming! So much has happened this week! On Tuesday we met with the G family again. They actually dropped us. Sister G has been going to another church with a friend of hers and she likes that one better. It really came down to reading. They are not big readers, and they just didn't want to do the things we were asking. I was thinking about entitling this letter "Mine Eyes Water My Pillow by Night" but then the Worldwide Training conference happened and most of the sadness is gone now. That was not a fun day. We met with Maggie right after that appointment. I'm so glad we did! Feeling the Spirit there and seeing how much she's changed made me feel that at least I was making a difference in someone's life. Wednesday we met with Linda. She is having some problems with the Book of Mormon. She hates the sentence structure, and every now and then I get the feeling that she's not very interested. But she's still putting her best foot forward. Thursday we had District Meeting and went out right after to teach this lady and her daughter. It was a really great first lesson, Sister Atkinson and I really practiced the 'how to begin teaching' a lot. They both committed to be baptized, but then we realized that one of them (the daughter) was already baptized in our church. She still wants to be baptized again... We'll see how it goes. They didn't make it to church yesterday... Friday was meh. Weekly Planning went O.K. but we didn't have any appointments so we spent the whole day knocking on doors. Met some interesting people. Saturday was AMAZING. First thing in the morning at 11am we go out and the second house we go to, we spy a man outside doing yardwork. He was trimming his bushes with a machete. That was an easy conversation starter. He gave us some cold water bottles and sat outside on his porch with us talking. Turns out, S is a major construction guy. He made houses for a really long time, but the crowning achievement of his career was making a palace for a Shaikh an hour south of Abu Dhabi. But the great part, is that he's a Faith Healer. A Legit one. He's not ordained to anything or a part of any particular religion, he just studied from the Bible the correct way to do it. You can't have any fear, it all is by faith. I wish I could write more about him, but I'm short on time. Y'all wrote a lot of emails. After visiting Scott, we ate lunch with a member. After lunch we met with this lady across the street named Tami (it's her birthday today). She's got two cool birds who talk named Kikoo and Baby. She's so spiritual and in tune with the Gospel, she is Elect squared! She said in passing that she was going to have the whole book of 1 Nephi finished by the time we met with her again! She committed to be baptized, but she's also in the process of moving and everything in her temporal world is up in the air at the moment. We'll nail down a date hopefully. Then yesterday happened! We almost spent the whole day with Maggie. This time for Sacrament, we sat in the gluten free section where we got a stale rice Pattie (Maggie's allergic to gluten). She also went to the Broadcast (President Barry recommended we bring Investigators). She really liked the new YW Pres.'s testimony. Fantastic day! Love y'all!! ~Sister Carlson