Such a fun week!!:) Happy leap year! So first, I found out that due to the native speakers being in the MTC 3 weeks, one transfer will be moved back. That means I will get home on Thanksgiving now! That also means, 19 month mission!! Woot woot! It's like a free extension :)
This week we went to visit a member who gave us "crackelings." He said they were pork skin fried in pig lard. Well for some reason when I heard lard I thought of manure. So I thought I was eating pork skin fried in pig poop. But I still ate it hahahaha. Sister Tait had to explain to me after what lard actually is. Hahah! We had to go up the scariest road called to get to some homes in a mountain. This road is so steep & windy and there are no rails. It was crazy haha. Also the river here runs south to north- it's one of the few rivers in the world that does that:)
Monday we had a pretty cool miracle. We were walking around Woodstock and we saw 2 guys playing basketball. It was really late and we were super tired but Sister Tait (who is a great example to me) just walked right in the middle of their game and started talking to them. Turns out the dad used to date a mormon & his 18 year old son knew SO much about mormonism and BYU athletics. It was really neat getting to talk to them. The 18 year old was really interested in learning more and coming to church. The prophets/apostles were right.. it's those millennials:)
Joyce our investigator is so set on me leaving that she got me an early birthday present haha. I am going to miss her so much. But it was SO COOL. She drove us & a less-active, Sis Clark, to stake conference in Winchester both days in a row!!:) It was so awesome. Because the Winchester Stake called a new Stake President, Elder Randall K. Bennett of the Seventy was there. After the Saturday session we introduced Joyce to him. He shook her hand and looked her right in the eye and said "You are a beautiful daughter of God with a Father in Heaven who wants to hear from you. This message is true." Joyce said "I know it's true." It was so neat!! Afterward she got to meet President & Sister Christiansen again along with Sis :)
Wednesday Sister Wright was out of town so she asked Sister Tait & I to teach. We analyzed my favorite verses in the whole old testament, Isaiah 53:3-5.
Thursday was sad. Paula our investigator dropped us. She said she felt such a strong spirit when reading the Book of Mormon. She told us all about 1st Nephi 11 and how much it changed her, but she said she prayed and felt like we shouldn't meet anymore. It was really sad. A lot of people can recognize the hope and truth of the gospel but still turn it away.
We went over to teach a less-active Thursday and ended up picking up her son as a new investigator. She hasn't been to church in a super long time, but was testifying to him of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon. We talked about Joseph Smith & invited him to read Moroni 10 & he said he would!!:)
Then Sunday we got to help Mary do more family history. It was so neat seeing her get into it! She was really excited and couldn't stop doing her family names. I am so excited for her to take those names to the temple!!:)
& the coolest story of all... Sunday we were eating dinner with the Lydays when Brother Lyday started talking about how his mom grew up in Lincoln County Nevada. I thought no stinkin' way! Haha, no one is from there! So we started talking and his family grew up in Caliente & Panaca!! I told him about Papa & the Wilcox family! Sister Lyday called Brother Lydays uncle who grew up there! Hahaha. He talked to me about Prof Wilcox. When he found out that I was his great-granddaughter he thought that was so cool. He said that Prof was a legend in Lincoln County and that a lot of students loved him:) It was such a special experience I will always keep in my heart.
Sorry this email is so long, but I love love love love you guys! Xoxo Sister Stolworthy
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