October 29th 2008

Wow does time fly!
This week hasn't been too bad. We've been tracting a lot and trying to find new investigators. We have 2 people set for baptism still which is great! They are progressing and keeping their commitments so that's always a good sign. My trainer Sister Sowards has been gone on exchanges since Sunday so it's just been me and sister Halliday. We've been doing really good though. We have another new investigator that we tracted into. We're teaching a few employees from a restaurant called Cinco De Mayo and we tracted into the manager and will start teaching him soon also. It's starting to get really cold here and we tracted in the windy, rainy, cold weather Monday. That was a bummer but we found the manager guy (Jonathan) so it was all worth it.
We met with a few less actives also and got them to come to church on Sunday!! Yay for that. We're working with a couple (the Chandlers) and trying to get them active again also. They are really nice people and always like to have us over for hot chocolate.
Weird thing happened the other day... We had about 30 minutes till we had to be home so we go "by the waying" which is when we got to a store or gas station on just talk to people outside. Well we gave a guy named Matt a pass along card for a free DVD of the Lamb of God. He was in total awe that we randomly just gave it to him. He said he'd call the number then he got in his truck. Well we talked to more people for about 10 more minutes and as we were leaving I saw that he hadn't left the gas station yet and was just watching us. So we pulled out and he started following us! The other sisters weren't paying attention and I told them NOT to go home and just go to a grocery store. They were getting freaked out but I just told them to listen to me and just do it. So the guy ends up following us to the store and we go inside to "buy something." He parked by our car and just sat there and waited for us. I told the cashier to just watch us and if anything happens call someone. So we go out and I walk up to him and start talking to him and see if he needed us to do anything for him. Turns out he was really flattered that we'd just randomly just give him this card and teach him about Christ’s teaching... So now we're teaching him and he suppose to be coming to church this week. It was pretty cool... Scary at first, but cool.
There's a member of the bishopric who tries to avoid missionaries so he doesn't have to do the work. But I cornered him in sacrament last week and got him to meet with us LOL Don't mess with me :) But we have 4 referrals from them and I got them excited about the work. So that was pretty cool. Sister Sowards have been trying to meet with them for months and I finally got him to cave!! YES!
Until next time

-Sister Orawiec
The Church Is True!!!