May 19, 2014

Enjoy this week's email from Sister Huss!

 

Hey!

This week I really got a new appreciation of having a car on the mission. Ours was taken in from Tuesday to Friday this week and we walked all over town. I never thought I could be so sore or so tired! But I bet that that's how it was like for Hayd on his mission. Like I said never been so appreciative for a car!  But it was cool because we got to meet some really cool people! One guy even stopped us on the street and talked to us. He grew up in Red Oak but moved to St. George! So we talked about SUU and 2 of his daughters got degrees in teaching from there and one is going to Dixie. He said he wasn't a Mormon but knows a ton of them that are great people and wants to have us over for dinner with him and his family!

It has been a week of miracles!

We were able to contact a referral from Church headquarters. She asked for missionaries to come. Her name is Lisa and she is the most prepared person that I have ever met on my mission! She went to the Church for about 3 years when she was young, never got baptized, but said she feels the most comfortable at the LDS church. She just moved and was super disappointed that she lost her Bible. We offered her one but had to get it from the car. She came out with us and we gave her a Bible, a Book of Mormon, and a pamphlet for the 1st lesson. She was just eating it up! She told us she was going to start reading the Book of Mormon and would read the pamphlet as well. She just kept telling us she wanted to go to church and be involved, so we also invited her to the Relief Society BBQ this week and wants to come! Such a miracle!

The members in Red Oak also had a BBQ for some birthdays last week and we took Becky and the investigator and she loved it. She ended up spending all the time with the members and not with us. It was so cool. She really loved it and everyone was super friendly!

I have to admit that I also have been a little bit of a slacker. Kolby told me that he got his first copy of Preach My Gospel for his 12th birthday and it reminded me. Elder Ballard, in conference, talked about missionaries and their families studying Preach My Gospel together, and it seems like every time we email I just forget about it! So I wanted to challenge you and the rest of the family to start studying it! Each month President Weston gives us a new chapter to study every day and this month we started over and are studying "Chapter 1: My Purpose".

Love you!