11/04/2013

Hey all!

It's going to be a little quick today; sorry bout that. But it's gonna happen! Annndd...you might just get a picture, if my jazzy new card reader works alright. ;) So here goes!

An Update:

Things are going pretty well; not as many lessons as we'd like this week, but lots of less active work, LOTS of tracting (I actually kind of like it now), and some good progress. The Ward is starting to get behind us, and the wheels are starting to churn. Now just have to keep it moving!

A Profile: (this is subbing for the experience this week)

Elaine Hutchison

Profession: Expedia worker by day, Writer by night

Religious Background: QUAKER! She was converted as she did some research on line and relized that everything quakers believe is what she believes. (Katie Stevenson, thank you so much for taking me to so many different churches in my youth)

Accessory of Choice: Limited French vocabulary, reserved for use with her petite French Bulldog (she told us that animals like french more, they like the vowels)

Surprising Discovery: She read the Book of Mormon when she was in 7th grade, believes that it's legit and that God can work miracles in the modern day (hi-5)

Reason she's not in the church (yet ;P): She thinks that if she joined with the Mormon Church, she'd have to accept a lot of things as fact that she doesn't believe (things about women, blacks in the priesthood, etc.). Nary does she know that there are...discussions to be had, and that if she joined the church, she would not have to accept anything that is not true! (like the idea that someone is intrinsically not as good as another, which she probably thinks we believe at some level)

We met Elaine tracting on Tuesday, and it made my day. AWESOME woman, and she was super happy to see us. We have a return appointment for this Saturday; we'll see how it goes.

A Thought:

Found this little gem this week:

Mosiah 29:20

"But behold, he did deliver them because they did humble themselves before him; and because they cried mightily unto him he did deliver them out of bondage; and thus doth the Lord work in all cases among the children of men, extending the arm of mercy towards them that put their trust in him."

And thus doth the Lord work in all cases among the children of men. All cases. I love that. It means it works for you, in whatever type of bondage you may find yourselves in. All it takes is for us to humble ourselves and really ask for help, and it'll come. Pretty awesome.

I love you all so much! Keep writing; it gives me so much joy to hear what's going on in your lives.

XOXO

Sister Hale

Mines the crown-looking Temple one :)