Alot has happened this week (if you can even imagine a lot happening in the state of Maine). Our ward's 40 Day Fast ended on Wednesday, and the blessings have definitely been flowing. We (the sisters) have a baptismal date with Tyler and the elders in our ward got a baptismal date this week as well, with a less active lady's husband! They are young and have young kids and it's been cool to see how her testimony has strengthened throughout his learning process and how it's helped with marriage.
ALSO this crazy (in a good way) lady in our ward called us and told us that she had two baptismal dates for us... she is the cub scout leader (master? mother? whatever) and she has a boy named Connor in there who isn't baptized, and his mom Gene isn't a member either. We have been trying to get appointments to come teach them but Gene is really shy and nervous and never says yes, even though they come to church basically every week. WELL, crazy Sister Meyer called them up and asked them to be baptized haha. Apparently it worked because starting today, we are teaching them 3 lessons a week so they can be baptized before November... wahh! The members in our ward are awesome about member missionary work. The Sanford ward hasn't had a baptism in over a year... in fact, we opened up the baptismal font the other day and there were tons of dead spiders in it haha. But because of the faith and effort of the members, we have 4 baptismal dates. SAWEET.
The miracle for this week is as follows: My comps and I were out walking at 8:40 pm (you go in at 9 pm) and we walked up to this girl and guy having a smoke outside of a gas station. The girl told us she's an athiest and wasn't interested, but the guy, Stephen, was really interested and really nice! He's 21 years old and was just telling his mom the week before we saw him that he wants to fix up his life and he wants to go back to church, but he left his old one because he felt judged for making some wrong turns in life. We taught him about the Book of Mormon and he was excited about reading it. We taught him the Restoration the next day and it went really well. We are excited about him because he seems really genuine and has a desire to learn and change.
Today my comps and the elders and I volunteered at this community event full of free services- hair cuts, massages, nail painting, free clothes and other supplies, free lunch, flu shots, help with resumes... everything. My comps and I ended up painting peoples' nails for 3 hours, so that was fun to talk to all types of different people from town while we were doing that haha. It was a great way to kind of get out in the community and help people in need.
Holy long email.... congrats to anyone who made it this far :) That is what we call enduring to the end.
Love, Sister Welling
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