The work is going great in The Colony! Debbie and Ben are so excited for their baptisms on the 17th! Debbie announced it in relief society again this week at church! Ben is almost completely off his e-cigarette! We are going to take him to lunch when he can make it through a whole day without using it! We also got two more baptismal dates this week, they aren't quite as solid, but we are hoping the people can progress =)
On Wednesday we had a funny flip flop of lessons. We had planned to teach Daniel about fasting and Debbie and Ben about the law of chastity, but we ended up teaching Daniel the law of chastity and Debbie and Ben fasting! Their questions and concerns just led us to switch their lessons. We end up switching lessons quite often but this time on the same day the lessons reversed and we were still able to use our lesson plans, just not for the people we had intended. I am sure the Lord knew we needed to prepare those two lessons, and he knew we would figure out eventually which investigators really needed them.
We got to tract in the rain a bit this week. Everyone in Texas has either a screen door or a glass door as a double layer in addition to their wooden front door. A two year old opened the wooden door to a house and talked to us through the screen for a few minutes while we tried to get him to go get his parents but he was just chattering away and then he slammed the door on us, haha we were rejected by a baby =)
We got to have a "girls night" and watch the Testaments with Jamie (teenage girl) and her less active mom, Sister McCoy. Sister McCoy started a popcorn fight in the middle of the movie! It was really fun! We went over the next morning to curl their hair for church since we now have 1:00 church, but then Jamie didn't come to church even though she loved her hair! Sister McCoy came though luckily.
It is crazy that it is now 2015! I will spend the entire year on my mission! 2014 was the best year of my life so I am very excited to make 2015 even better! At the beginning of 2014 I got to go to Germany and Austria with my dad to ski, I got to lead SIFF club (sharing interests and forming friendships with students with special needs) and take them bowling, I got to volunteer with the Special Olympics, I started runnning 3-5 miles a day, I recieved my mission call, was a top ten finisher in the all-school 5K, got to be Belle in the beauty and the beast choir medley, Graduated from high school and seminary, went through the Temple, had an internship at the UW Autism Center, Jazzercise with mom, running with Dad, got in some summer skiing at mount hood, left for my mission in September and baptized Hal! I also was able to be trained by the best missionary in the Texas Dallas mission and send her home to Utah!
Love,
Sister Melina Lillie Jones
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