Hermana Thorne here. I just sent a bunch of pictures and if you read the captions you all should know by now that we got a flat tire this morning so we just barely got to the library to start emailing! It was alright though. We made the most out of it and it was enjoyable getting the car all fixed up and ready to be used again. It snowed again a few days ago and it is still snowing a bit. Man. I would LOVE to see some signs of spring! I love spring here, it is BEAUTIFUL! Alas, I shall wait out the snow and then the spring shall be all the more welcome. Yesterday church was cancelled because a huge snow storm came in Saturday night. I am not sure that I have ever experienced church being cancelled before. I was SO bummed out about this, which is funny because when I was a child this probably would have been joyful news. ha ha. We were asked to stay at home yesterday until 4 pm when we were told that we were not allowed to drive in the car but that we could walk so that is what we did. The picture of Hna Jorgensen and I with our faces covered by our scarves is from yesterday when we were walking because it was FREEZING! We did feel great after having gone out though and we were able to find some great service opportunities. It is really fun to get to teach Hna Jorgensen about missionary life and she is learning just as I did that even when it is hard we just do it and then we and those around us are blessed. When we focus on how hard the task at hand is it just seems so much harder. I don't see a point on dwelling on how difficult something is when I am going to have to do it anyway. I might as well enjoy myself!
We found some INCREDIBLE people this last week! We prayed that we would find someone on Saturday who had really been prepared. This is exactly what happened. We ended up finding a woman named Breanna who is so sweet and I just love her already. We are going back to her house to teach her tonight and we are both really excited. We also found a really young couple who are super nice and they introduced us to their pet monkey...yes. Their pet monkey. HE IS SO CUTE! His name is Mac and he is 11 years old. This means he is old enough to be baptized and have us teach him the lessons too! Sadly I think that this may be against one of the rules so we will just be feeding him bananas when we visit his owners Scott and Megan. What a great story though, right?!
Saturday was just a pretty great day because Hna Jorgensen invited one of our investigators for baptism and he accepted! He will be getting baptized on the 13th of April. Ha ha! You all should have seen Hna Jorgensen's face when he said yes, she looked shocked and so I had to finish the invitation by asking him if he would prepare himself to be baptized on April 13th. She has invited one or two people before but they did not say yes so she did not know what to do. She gets really excited when we find success and I love that about her. The man who is getting baptized on April 13th is named Victor. This man is so prepared! His wife is already a member of the church and he has a very solid Christian background so he is such a pleasure to teach! I am so excited for his baptism!
Things are going so well here! I love the Kaw River ward!!! Oh I almost forgot, my mom told me that my homecoming talk we be on the 28th of April at my home ward in Payson. I hope that you all can make it because I would love to see you there :)
les quiero mucho y espero que todo esta bien en sus vidas!
con amor,
Hermana Thorne
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