Sister Broadhead and I:
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I just want to start by apologizing for how terrible I've been at writing my weekly emails... After a while, I just don't know what people want to hear about! If you have any questions, let me know. It'll prompt me to know what to write about.
We found 6 new investigators this week (in Elgin!) and had a record of 23 lessons! YES!
Here are our new investigators! (Written by Sister Broadhead... partly cause she'd already done it and I'm lazy and partly because I never know what to say)
Jody (14) - Jody is Billy's brother. He was taught years ago, but didn't go anywhere with it. We started teaching him again and Billy is doing a good job in helping us teach. Jody is really understanding what we are teaching.
Damon (12) - Damon is Jody's friend. He's been coming to scouts and to church for who knows how long, and we just recently ran into him outside the church. He said he wanted to be baptized, and we started teaching him and Jody together. Damon is having difficulty understanding what we teach, and we're not sure yet how to help him. He's also stuck on the things he's learned at the Baptist church and seems very passive about it all, rather than actively looking for truth.
Paige (11) - Paige doesn't have any family who are members of the church, but she lives part-time with a less-active family in the ward. We got word through the Elgin grapevine that she wanted to be baptized, and we've started teaching her. She is very attentive, and reads the assignments we give her. She has a super honest, sincere desire to find out if the Book of Mormon is true. It's a struggle getting her to church, because on Sundays she is with the less-active family, and they say they'll come and bring her, but things get in the way of church very easily for them. We hate to express a lack of confidence in them, but we're in the process of setting up alternate ways for Paige to get to church, because it's more important than they seem to realize.
Derek & Stephanie (20s) - Derek and Stephanie are a cohabiting couple who took the missionary discussions a few years ago but were told they could not be baptized unless they first were married, and they expressed that that didn't make sense to them. We had a lesson with them last night and we asked them how they felt about the Book of Mormon, and they both said they believed it to be true. We asked if they knew why they needed to be married in order to be baptized, and they said they did not know, and accepted our offer to explain it to them. So we started with a prayer and we had a great lesson about the law of chastity and about God's plan for the family. They lost a baby a couple years ago, and we promised them that if they chose to live the law of chastity and were baptized, they could later be sealed in the temple to each other and to their children, and that they would have that baby in their family for eternity. Their hearts were soft and they committed to be married so they could work toward a temple marriage. We invited them to prayerfully choose a date and they agreed. It was a great lesson.
Savannah (20s) - Was there the first time we met Stephanie this week, and we shared a short message and asked if we could come back on Sunday and begin the lessons, and they both agreed. When we came on Sunday, Savannah wasn't there, but Derek was!
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