I ate dinner with dolls!!!!

Wowza kazowza it was a crazy week. We did a ton and I can't even remember half of it. One of the best parts was we got fed every day and got into a lot of members homes. Nearly every house of a former/less active we tried to visit, someone answered the door. So that was crazy. The Lord's timing is perfect. Also, I tried a bite of an okra pod. Straight from the vine. Super slimy. Not my fave. I also met an Irish guy on St Patrick's day.

Investigator miracles:

So R- didn't get baptized this last week because J- decided he wanted to get baptized too so we pushed it back a week so they could all do it together. We had a lesson with 7 out of 9 of them and that was a little insane ( I have toys in my bag to keep the kids occupied) but we felt the spirit really strong. There was a moment when everyone was quiet and we paused and Sis Hunsaker was like "this is real" and R- and J- looked at each other and said "we know". Also their 6 year old said the prayer at the end of the lesson and even D- was quiet. It was incredible with everyone kneeling and feeling that love between them. I know they must've felt it.

We had one of the most powerful restoration lessons I've ever had with our new investigator A-. It's been kinda tricky meeting with him because he works, and we haven't had success with the other billion people that live at his house haha so we weren't sure what to expect or if he'd flake again. But we went and asked him what he was searching for and he said he's always searching for knowledge and he loves the Bible and has studied lots of religions and it's never really "clicked". (I wonder why..) Sister Hunsaker straight out told him it was because he hadnt met us yet haha. He really related to Joseph Smith, he's only 20, and genuinely wanted to discover if what we were teaching was true. We gave him a Book of Mormon and I took it from him and was explaining that it was a record of the people in ancient America the ancestors of the Mayans, Aztecs and the Native Americans and he was like "woah.... lemme see that back." I asked him after what he was feeling and he was like "it's warm, it feels good" so a lot of potential!! 

Unfortunately, our other investigators have been less into it lately... we've hardly heard from the Hispanic ones, and O- just dropped us. :( but that's ok. Just a little weeding. 

Finding has been promising though! We got a few from the sisters who just left that we've been trying to meet with. We have two cool black ladies who were super into the Book of Mormon and we're gonna meet with this week. And 2 other ladies that were not confident about but have potential and we'll put in our best efforts. 

Less actives: 

We have been visiting lots of less actives and new converts because retention is so important! We teach 5ish less active households weekly and it's been going pretty well it's just hard getting them all to church!! And we're teaching 2 new converts. 

The most hilarious lesson was with the S- family. It's just a mom and a daughter and they're African American and they're the funniest people. The only sad part is she said she's content with going to the terrestrial kingdom. She's like yeah it's going to be a lot more fun there! And they'll be partying and rapping! And Sis Hunsaker was like "you think we won't rap?" And like busts out the restoration rap by James the Mormon. It was hilarious. Then Sis Sah- said that she'll be Sis Hunsaker's hype man when she comes down from the celestial kingdom for her tour. I was dying.  But also.... We want her in the celestial kingdom.

We've become besties with Sister Sol-. She's native American and is the coolest lady. She grew up on a reservation where her parents found the church. She has the coolest stories. But she made us authentic Navajo tacos last week and they were the bomb. 

It was M-'s birthday this week and she took us all out to bbq. It was so yummy. She's so funny. She had kinda a rough week and wasn't sure she wanted to go out but we told her we would take pictures and that made her day. She always has me take pictures of her and sends them to her family. 

New apartment

I learned something super cool! So I guess I always envisioned the final judgement would just be God judging us and Christ is our advocate right? We apparently God has entrusted all of the final judgement to Christ. John 5:22. So he's not only our advocate, our savior and our friend, but he's also our judge! And idk why but that was a lot more relieving. Not that I think Heavenly Father would be a bad judge but Christ understands where I'm coming from 100%. So that was a cool moment for me. Think about it. 

Oh yes... my subject line. We had dinner with this lady from the other Palm Bay ward and we'd never met her before but she's an older lady and let me tell you, she's very eccentric. She had porcelein dolls EVERYWHERE. Like probably 20 of them. I like dolls, but 20 of them. Staring at you while you eat??? It was a little freaky. She also gave us a painting she had done. Which was nice. She's very interesting.... It was funny. 

I hope everyone is having a good week!! Never forget how much God loves you!! 

Sister Grant