September 22, 2012
Dear Family and Friends,
Once
again it is time to reflect on the happenings of the past few days here in
North Carolina. Sister Andrus and I
continue to be busy, happy and healthy.
Many of our missionaries have had the flu. Sister Andrus was a little ill
yesterday. She stayed home and feels
much better today. The missionaries
whose jobs we are learning are going home this next week. We feel really blessed to have been tutored
by them for the past month. We both feel
ready and look forward to taking over our office duties. This next week is our first experience with
transfer week. We feel its business
already. Much work in the office centers
on the coming and going of missionaries all of which takes place next
week. We are planning on 10 arriving
and 11 going home. We pray we are
prepared.
We have
been able to move forward in our proselyting activities this past two
weeks. We were able to speak in
Sacrament Meeting last Sunday. We were
assigned to speak on the restoration.
What a wonderful missionary topic.
Preach My Gospel is so wonderful and we are to use it as a source
document along with the Standard Works.
Sister Andrus did a great job—only took her 5 minutes however leaving me
40 minutes. Needless to say I wasn’t
very successful in using the simple, abbreviated versions we were counseled to
use at the MTC. We were able to
introduce ourselves and feel we are fitting in very nicely as members of the
Reedy Creek Ward. We have attended two
baptisms—one each on the past two Saturdays.
Wonderful converts. The ward is
very missionary minded. I think I shared
with you our plans to attend ward council—well we did and wow what a
meeting. Everything was on missionary
work. We are scrambling to keep up with
the assignments we are receiving. We are
a little concerned as the sister missionaries are being transferred out of the
ward this next week and having to transfer their teaching pool to the
elders. Sister Andrus and I have to step
up to help which is really stretching us with our duties during transfer
week. We are going to make it
somehow. We took an investigator family
to the ward activity on Friday evening—a pig pickin barbeque--Great food with
great people. They were really great
with the investigator family. We are
anticipating taking them to church tomorrow—we are awaiting a phone call from
the missionaries. We are also bringing
another family to church tomorrow. They
are from Nepal. Speak very little
English—they were baptized in Virginia and have moved here for work. As we were visiting them, we discovered they
are living with three different families—all in the same apartment. They are so loving and kind. We were hugged and fed (I hope we don’t get
sick) only three are members of the church—a father and his 16 year old
daughter and 13 year old son. The
daughter and son can communicate very well.
The Father is doing OK. His name
is Til. He wants us to be with him as he
teaches his family. If they have
questions he will ask us and then he will communicate in Napali with them. We are hoping to get the Elders to be there
with us. Anyway we are picking them up
tomorrow for church—we need a van. We as
Reedy Creek Missionaries meet each Saturday at 11:45 am at the ward mission leader’s
home for lunch and correlation meeting.
The ward mission leader has to be prepared for PEC each week with the
missionary activities going on. Then
every other week all the missionaries meet with the ward council and give our
report. We are then excused from ward
council so we can greet our investigators’.
Really a fun and busy experience, however we are hoping to get some help
with the transportation.
How did
the cultural celebration turn out? The
Dedication will be tomorrow. We are
missing our home very much right now with all of these wonderful events. We so appreciate being included in the emails
from our family and friends who are involved with the Brigham City Temple
activities. Please keep them
coming.
We have
a couple of missionaries from our area—Elder Jeppeson from Willard--one of
Sister Melba Munn’s grandsons. We have
met him and visited with him. We also
have Elder Penrod from Brigham City. He
is one of Bart’s sons—Dallas and Joann’s grandson. We have not met him yet; however have met him
on paper. Both, I believe, are good
missionaries. We met and visited with
Sally Hall—Pres. Ladd Hall’s wife. Pres.
Hall was called a couple of week ago as stake president over the Charlotte
South Stake. Sister Andrus and I are in
the Charlotte Central Stake. We met Sister Hall at a fireside which was for all
of the stakes in the area put on by the General Relief Society and Primary
boards.
We are
so grateful for this wonderful experience.
We are so happy to be here. We
miss our family so much; however know we are where we need to be. We are so proud of each of you. We pray for all of you every day. We find our prayers are getting longer and
more meaningful—there is so much to be grateful for. We also have so many needs to pray for. We are so grateful for the Atonement of our
Savior. We love sharing the message of
the atonement with the people of Charlotte.
They need it so desperately. We
all need it so desperately. We have your
pictures on the wall and it is so good to see you everyday—you all are smiling
so good. We now have the internet—we need
to set up our Skype and Face time. I
will let Sister Andrus work out the details.
We love
you all—have a great remainder of September—we will check in later.
Elder and Sister Andrus, Dad and Mom, Grandma and Grandpa
and Don and Ruth.
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