I love Grandma Call too! That is so great that y'all were able to go and see the entire Call family again. There all such great people. It will be great to have her house all trimmed and painted too. I think it will almost look like a different house when y'all are done with it. I hope she is able to keep going, and have the energy to do what she wants to accomplish. I'm so happy to hear that y'all are going to the Forgotten Carols again this year too! That was such a great show. Thank you for sending me the music to it. We have been listening to it while we study and do our Facebook time. It is great! Is Andy taking a date to it like I did?
We have a Zone activity in Greensboro today. We have been trying to stay warm here :) The
thermals really helped, so thank you so much! We had our heat fixed, but
we are only allowed to have our house be 70 degrees, so I pretty much
live in sweats and a sweatshirt when we are at home at night, and my
sweater the rest of the time. Thank you for the gloves, they worked
great!
One day this week we went on exchanges, so Elder Killpack came up
here to Danville and we worked for the day. That was kinda scary,
because now I was the one that had to tell him about the area, and
direct the work here for the day. And he is our Zone Leader ;) It rained
so hard here all day, and we were biking, so it was cold, but it was
good. We pushed through the cold, and we kept knocking on doors and
talking to people. We came to a door, we
knocked. A miracle happened. A young man answered the door, and he
started to talk to us. He said he wasn't really interested in what we
had to say, and it was cold outside, so he began to shut the door. But,
then his wife walked up behind him and asked who we were. We told her
who we were, and she said "oh okay! well, I'll stand outside and I'll
listen to what you have to say. She walked out and shut the door. She
only had on a t-shirt and a bath robe. She didn't even have shoes on! So
on her porch we began to teach her the Restoration of the Gospel of
Jesus Christ. We tried to make it a quick lesson so she wouldn't freeze.
She stood there and listened to us, and participated in the lesson for
30-40 minutes. And then, We invited her to be baptized, and she said
that she would. She even said the closing prayer. It was a great prayer,
and we hope that she will continue to progress in the gospel. We have
another appointment with her today. Right now we are planning on having
four baptisms this month. This will be a White Christmas.
We were able to play football here as well. We had what is called a
Turkey Bowl, and a bunch of the members of our ward got together and we
were invited to come and play football with them. It was so much fun!!
But, The next morning my companion and I were so sore that we could
barley role out of bed. The next three days we didn't get on our bikes
because we were afraid that we couldn't do it. haha so we walked
everywhere for 3 days :) But we had someone come and play with us who
was not a member, and didn't know much about the church. We invited him
to play basketball with us Wednesday nights, so we hope he will come and
we can teach him more.
We found out this last week that we will be receiving Mini-ipads on
the 12th of this month. they are just regular i-pads for the most part.
We have been working with the Taylor family alot lately. We will
invite them to be baptized on the 14th of this month, and we are hoping
for that. So sad story with all of that. Finally the Taylor's received a
copy of a lease from her and all she had to do was sign it. Before
signing it she looked over it, and read it. In the lease it said that
the land lord could come and go as she pleased day or night, and without
any notice, for the first 31 days. It also said that at the Taylor's
expense, they had to put up a wood fence around the property, and have a
storage shed placed or built on the property. Needless to say, they did
not sign the lease. But, a family in the ward has as double wide
trailer that they were using as an office that they said the Taylor's
could stay in for a few months until they find a new place. So for now,
the Taylor's are situated and will hopefully be getting baptized soon!
And I know right! The Evans family is crazy awesome! Just the
father served there, but he has taught his wife most of the language.
They speak in it to each other quite a bit. We don't spend alot of time
with them. We just have dinner with them twice a month or so.
Elder Holland is one of my favorite speakers as well. We have a
couple of CD's that are just full of his talks that we listen to in the
car or whatever. I love to listen to him speaker, because he is such a
great speaker. You can really hear the love and conviction in his voice.
The Mormon Message that I shared on my wall has an excerpt from Safety
for the Soul, and it is my favorite. I feel the Spirit so strong when I
listen to it. I will keep trying to push you :) haha An High Priest of
Good Things to Come is a great Talk as well.
Love,
Elder Jorgensen :)
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