We'll start with a visit we made to a member in the nursing home. We have an investigator in the nursing home (sounds sketchy, and like she's vulnerable BUT it was her HUSBAND who doesn't live there that started out investigating) and we went to go see how she was doing. She wanted to sleep so we went to go visit Lois (whom we have seen before). We kind of did a wild goose chase because no one seemed to know where she was and we weren't sure if that red-sweatered lady in the front dining room was her. It was. So we woke her up from "resting her eyes" and she said "oh! are you my missionaries?" We said yes and sat down to chat with her. We've talked with her before and she usually gets really confused about her life. She served 3 full-time missions but from the past visits we've made, we're not sure where she served. Possibly North Carolina, Canada and either Portland, ME or Portland, OR. hmm. This last time she was convinced that she went on a mission to PA and that it was there that she tracted for 5 years. Hmm. false. She's really cute though. She had told us previously that she met her husband on her mission (an Elder Christensen) but we know from her grandson that she met his TWIN brother on her mission. This last time she said that she met her husband Bob ON her mission and married him "on the mission". She told us (and emphasized) the "on the mission" part about 4 times. Wow. Then she intermittently asked us "are you married" "are you engaged" "do you have a boy at home" and "do you have friends that are boys at home". Awesome. Then she said that it was on her mission that the Holy Spirit told her to get married so she did "on the mission" and told us to listen to the holy spirit. I made some comments about trying to look out for that moment (S. Brown didn't like that very much) and to finish off the visit we were dying to laugh when Lois said "And kissing is important!" (following how doing the dishes is important) "..Because it's after a few years that kissing slips!" so she advised us to practice now. :) I was dying and Sister Brown told her we'd have to do that "after our missions" and Lois said "Well I don't see why not before!" and I told her we'd have to round some of the elders up (hehe, Sister Brown tried to shush me on that one :) ) and take care of that.Lois felt like that was a good idea though. That was when she asked us about our boy friends at home and I told her we'd have to write them and prepare them for when we come home haha. It was hilarious! Sister Brown didn't like me egging her on much, but it was pretty amusing for me. Poor thing. Lois also offered to feed us. She said it was "good for the pocket book and good for the missionaries!" but we don't think she was quite aware of her lack of resources. Funny though.
Ok that was long enough. The rest of the week kind of pales in comparison. It was pretty good though. We had a lesson planned each night with one of our members to be there teaching with us but none of them worked out! It was really sad! We did get to teach a lot though and it was amazing how we were able to see the spirit work to direct us to different places. There were several situations in which Sister Brown or I would suggest going to see people that we never would have planned for but it worked out! And it was just where we needed to be! So great! We also really enjoyed General Conference and had some of our investigators that were able to watch it as well. Progress is slow but I really discovered this week how important it is to have patience and how I did have a great lack of it. So I'm working on being better at that and, in the meantime we were able to have a good talk with our ward mission leader about how we can help the ward and strengthen them to see better progress with the missionary work overall. It was great and our goal is to have each ward member to set one goal that will help them contribute to the growth of the ward. It will be something personal and only between them and the Lord and something they can strive for all year and really actively seek to do/accomplish/be. We know that the Lord will bless us as we can get all the members involved. So I'm pretty excited about that. We were also able to take care of other concerns and really be open and honest about the way things are working here. His family also fed us for easter that day so it was a nice time.
Yes the members are taking care of us here mom :) Although, we don't have any dinner appts here, we've been told to ask whenever we need something--Sister Brown and I won't do it though; we'd feel too bad.
Happy Easter to all! I hope everything is good! And it's always good to hear from you all.
Bytheway, Sister Brown and I will both be staying here in Colville this transfer. Time is quickly passing though!! We're hoping to really be more aggressive and see things happen here!
Love, Sister Hulet
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