Happy Thanksgiving
(again)! Just thought I would wish it to you one more time. Welcome to December
in Florida... 80 degrees. Although, we did have it down to 40 degrees
Thanksgiving morning for a couple hours. That was nice.
Funny of the Week:
Last night we were at a member's house and as we were walking out I saw a GIANT
mouse of the rug in the kitchen. I pointed it out to Sister Fox, and she asked,
"is that real?" I thought it was, but how do you point that out to
someone? So, I just asked Maggie, "is that real?" She was pretty
calm, but basically said, "I don't like mice." Well, I am pretty much
not scared of anything but spiders, thankfully, so I went and grabbed a small
garbage can, put it covering the mouse, and took the rug and the garbage can,
and the mouse outside. We put it across the street kind of in this ditch. The
mouse wasn't moving much (I think it ate one of her plastic containers... poor
mouse), but at least it was safe outside. On the way out we went and looked at
it again and realized the neighbor whose house was next to the ditch was
watching us. Whoops... should have thought about what the neighbor might think
with putting the mouse so close to his house.
Highlights of the
Week:
On Thanksgiving we ran
the Turkey Trot in Clearwater! We tried to talk with many people. We also
talked to a man for the entire run who was in Utah last weekend and visited
Temple Square. And get this, his wife is an ASL Interpreter! Yup, that is
absolutely amazing! It was a really nice experience. We didn't want the
missionaries to come by yet, but is excited to read The Book of Mormon. Lots of
members came up and talked to us and were excited to see us out, and as we
passed others we could hear them reading our shirts and then talking briefly
about mormon.org. I felt like the race was great exposure. Hopefully we will get
to run another soon!!
On Thanksgiving we
also went to a couple members homes and had delicious food (thank you!!), and
we also had some great lessons with some single women and some of our
investigators. It was awesome! One of our recent converts was watching the
Macey's Day Parade and then all of a sudden she heard the Mormon Tabernacle
Choir. She went into the TV room and the channel had switched to the Church's
Thanksgiving broadcast. She figured she would listen to it. So she did, after
it was done the TV switched back to the Macey's Day Parade. Yup... the Lord
really wants her back at church :)
We had a referral from
a teenager the other day that ended up being an unknown less active (we got the
information to transfer the records here). The teenager (probably 13) walked us
over to the woman's house and asked if we could say a prayer with her. It was
awesome. The teenager's mom is a potential investigator of ours.
Remember that deaf
woman I met at Kmart my first week in Seffner? Well she called the other day
via video relay interpreting service, and will be coming to a stake activity this
Saturday.
We had a lesson with a
less active who had tons of questions about the Plan of Salvation. She
initially let us come over for service and is now ready for us to share the
lessons with her. It was a beautiful experience!
We now have four
baptismal date sets, which is a huge blessing. One of them we had really wanted
to set this week (and he did too), but the lesson didn't work out this week and
he doesn't have a phone. Well, we met him and his member friend while we were
biking. We had a great lesson with them on the street and set the date! He is
very excited!
Yesterday I was
exhausted. Absolutely and completely. We were biking and I was dragging.
Through a lot of prayer, Heavenly Father blessed me to have the energy to
finish the day. That was awesome!
Study of the Week: I
love reading about Christ's life. I have been studying recently, Christ-like
attributes, His sermons in both Matthew 5-7 and 3 Nephi 12-14, and I have been
re-reading the gospels. Christ is so bold with his questions and so loving. He
has so much faith and rewards us with blessings based on the tiniest bit of
faith.
Invitation of the
Week: Have you invited a non-member or less-active friend or family member to
an activity, to church, or to hear about the gospel? Time is soon running out
for the challenge from General Conference... only 23 days left til Christmas.
Have a great day!
Sister Jenkins
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