The Bike Behind

Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:42 AM,

It was a really good week. The Lord's hand was definitely in our week.
I will tell you just one experience that demonstrates it.
On Friday we had been tracting most of the cold day and our toes felt
like they were no longer attached to our foot. So when we had an
appointment that fell through we were going to drive across town to
try someone else {because we have the beautiful blessing of a car},
but we decided we would walk there instead much to the dismay of our
toes. As we were walking I was thinking about Ron and Jessica - our
two investigators we had worked a lot with my first 6 weeks here, but
had dropped us 3 weeks ago. We had tried contacting them a few times
that week, but they never responded. I was about to tell Sister Park,
'I hope we see Ron,' when I heard a bike coming behind us and was
grateful because we would get to talk to somebody. When I turned
around it was Ron!! Amazing! He told us he was having a really hard
time and asked us to come over later this week. So the moral of this
story is, blessings come when toes are most frozen.

And there were just so many other wonderful little things. We had
great lessons with our less actives this week. The spirit was so
strong in the lessons. Those times make all the rejection and toe
freezing much more than worth it.

We have new Site directors this week {they are kind of mini mission
presidents over the sites} and she knows Uncle Bob. She lived in Ririe
until her sophomore year of high school and Robert was in her class. I
don't remember her maiden name. Now her name is Searle. Hm... Lewis
maybe? I think so.

Love you all! Hope things are happy at home.
love,
Sister l

Sent 11:56am from mom
Would warmer boots or more socks help?

 12:11 PM

no :) hello! My boots are fine. I was wearing not my full winter boots
that time, so usually my feet are okay. I have a favor to ask! In your
next letter can you send me the recipe off of Allrecipes.com for Sushi
rice? I want to make the rice for sister Park. And also, could you
find me cassie's address that is actually in South Africa? I tried
sending a letter, but didn't realize it was pouch mail, and it was
written on a picture, so I can't send it pouch mail.
Love you!