Hey Peeps!!! :)
This past week flew by pretty
fast! We had Interviews with President Cottle and Zone Training meeting, so
that made us busier. It was good seeing President and Sister Cottle, they are
SO busy though!
We had to drop Jeanette this past
week. :( We dropped in to see how she was doing and talk about baptism once
again. She finally came out and said she doesn't want to be baptized. She said
she will take her chances with her baptism without the priesthood authority.
Sister Clouse and I had no intention of dropping her, but we followed the
spirit and it was pretty awesome how smooth it went! Jeanette was sad to see us
go, but she understood and wasn't bitter about it. We really hope and pray that
she has a change of heart soon. The next day we had plan on doing service for
her, we felt like it would still be ok to go and do it. The Elders were nice
and helped us... well they more did all the work to be honest. hehe :)
They dug her a "poop hole" as we say it, but really they were
just widening her drain/trench from her septic tank/hole. She lives in a shack
so we weren't really sure what it was. BTW, I totally would have dug but there
were only 3 shovels... I’m not afraid of dirt and poop. ;) But the Elders are
awesome for doing that!
We are still teaching Lita and she
is really excited for her baptism! We taught her about the Word of Wisdom, and
that was kind of hard to be honest. She smokes a pack a day and doesn't think
she can quit even though she wants to. We have given her the motivation though!
This Gospel can do anything!!! :) She is willing to try at lease. We will be
fasting with her this week to give her added help! :) She is excited for that
too! :) Lita's fiancé Josh doesn't want to learn.. so he says, but whenever we
come over he listens and answers questions and helps Lita with finding
scriptures. He even says he will come to church with her. People are funny. :)
SO what I am super excited about
is Alex! She is the sweetest 9 year old! She really wants to learn and loves
having us over! Her BCD is March 22! Her Grandparents are active and she
receives support from them, we actually teach her at their place. Alex's 12
year old sister Laney was anti at first but now she is at all the lessons and
she even came to church with all of them yesterday! :) She gets excited for us
to come over too! :) We love teaching Alex and seeing her enthusiasm for the
Gospel! She loves reading the BOM and telling us what she learned! She wants to
be like Nephi and do what the Lord asks of her by being baptized. I am very
proud of her and love her example to me, others and her family. :)
So about this monkey business... well we were visiting
a less active family (They are pretty cool) and they told us about this Island
really close to Lady's Island that the locals call monkey Island. Apparently a
big firm or the government owns it and they raise monkeys there so they can be
used in scientific experiments. They told us that you can only get there by
boat (so I won’t get to see it... sad) and people are not allowed on because
they don't want the monkeys contaminated. But the family said that you can see
thousands of monkeys in the trees when you get close! Anyways there is your
random thing from me this week. ;) hehe.
Hope you are all doing great! I'm loving the weather
over here! 70 degrees! :) I love you all and keep up the good work!
~ Sister Tara Willie
Ya I'm a Harry Potter fan :)
At the waterfront in downtown Beaufort!!
With my District after Church :)
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