Dear fam, please forgive me for not writing yesterday. We changed our Pday to today because we went to the Temple in Spokane! It was awesome. We had a girl named Sarah Fisher drive us up (she's heading off for her mission on May 26 to Chile) and we had a GREAT time. All I have to say is that she loves the movie A Goofy Movie. Instant best friends! :) haha. It was awesome.
The temple was amazing. I was afraid I would forget everything (it's been three months since I have been) but never fear! It was beautiful though! And it was wonderful to be able to have time to sit and think a little bit and try to find some answers. We've not seen much progression lately from our investigators so I needed direction. Yesterday, though, we did find some people who said we could come back and talk with them! I'm pretty hopeful about it! It was weird because one of the kids we met didn't recognize the full church name and so I said "Mormons?" And there was no reaction! I was so surprised! People usually run and hide, kick our feet out of the way of the door to slam it or something :) So that was cool. Someone who had no prejudices! Awesome!
So some interesting things last week: we went up to Northport (the smallish village north of Colville) and went boony tracting in the area where we knew Jane Russell supposedly lived. So we saw a mailbox that looked like it said Jane and knocked on it while it was pouring rain outside. An older man answered the door and invited us in. Then offered us 7up and cake to drink/eat and we chatted a bit. Come to find out, it's Jane Russell's brother who had moved up to Northport area following his brother who had been led up there by God. Their mother was a pentecostal preacher and so was the rest of the family. To cut it short: the man's wife (oh, their names were Jamie and Pamela) had the gift of prophecy and so makes prophecies every wednesday. They gave us a copy and then said that Colville was to be the Sanctuary when Seattle and Los Angeles fall off into the ocean from earthquakes, etc. So we need to hoard food in empty warehouses here to save all the refugees.
Anyway, my comp is waiting for me to finish. Sorry I couldn't make this longer than last week. We did have fun last pday playing vball and whatnot. I've been good though. Still challenged here in the work but I like it that way and life goes on.
Have a good one!
love, sister hulet
