Last P-Day we were able to walk around the shops at Langely, it reminded me a lot of home and the downtown square in Denton. (Denton's is definitely better though :) ). But that was really fun! We walked around the beach too, which was pretty sweet!
We taught 13 lessons this week, they all went really well! We have definitely been blessed this week to find people to teach. We even met this sweet young mom tracting who told us we could come back during the day this week to talk with us! So that was exciting! We had the pleasure of meeting a couple of Atheists. One guy did let us in and we were able to talk to him. I was able to bear my testimony to him of the Book of Mormon and how it could bless his life. It was a little scary, but its good to do hard things! That's how you grow. He said he would read it eventually one day, but doesn't expect anything to come of it.
We taught our investigator that is on date for baptism, and he is doing so well and exercising such great faith. We taught him about tithing this week (we were worried about tithing and word of wisdom) because he told us he would never pay tithing even if he joined the church. Our ward mission leader, Brother Jaeger, who was just recently called, was baptized 5 years ago, and was exactly in his position when it came to tithing. We brought Brother Jaeger with us, taught him about tithing, and it was another great lesson. We shared scriptures, promised blessings, and Bro. Jaeger sweetly bore the best and most sincere testimony. Our investigator said he knows in his heart that he should, but he is just going to go on pure faith, because he doesn't physically have 10% to give. He then asked if there were some faith scriptures he could study to grow his faith! We assigned Hebrews 11, Ether 12 and Alma 32. Its been such a blessing to watch that miracle of the Book of Mormon and his testimony grow as he has put away the worldly things and come to Christ. This week he is coming to Brother Jaeger's house for dinner and we are teaching the word of wisdom then. I am not as scared anymore, because he has truly showed such great faith. I know he can continue to have that faith and grow his conversion throughout his life.
Saturday night it snowed 4 inches so we woke up Sunday with a white blanket everywhere! We drove to our meetings, very scared. But we said a prayer of safety before we left since we have to go down a huge hill to get to the building. Then once we got to the church at 7:30am, we got a text from President saying "avoid driving at all costs today, by avoid, I mean do not do it at all. Under no circumstances may your tires hit the snow." Wooooops. We told him we already were at our meetings. He said it was okay but go home after church and no driving. So the remainder of the day we had member rides, ate with the Moss family and met with our ward mission leader. It was a great Sunday. OH! And Sis. Oswald and I sang "abide with me tis even tide" in church today. It was a great song. The spirit was so strong, the room was silent, even all the babies stopped crying, so that was cool. Unfortunately the snow kept a lot of investigators we invited to church from coming... so we will just have to sing again! It was also ward conference so a lot of the stake leaders were there, so that was pretty awesome.
Its been a great week, I am still loving the island so much!
Love
Sister Wawro
PICTURES (and we'll see if the video works...7 seconds of the beach):
Video on the beach :)
The only theatre on the island, "The Clyde". Only shows 2 movies at a
time.
Been around since the 50's. No Cinemark or Rave up in here. LOL!
Cool statue
Seahawks! Goodness...
Yesterday's SNOW! View from the backyard...
Our ward mission leader and his wife. He was just called. I LOVE HIM and
his wife. They are the best. They are who we spent Christmas Eve
with!
They take such good care of us :)
"Selfies" in the library. Gotta do it.
Now you can see what I look like at this EXACT moment! Lol!
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