Busy, busy

Hey y'all!

Sorry, this might be a short email... even our P-days are super busy... today just got kinda messed up because we decided to try doing laundry at the Nottingham Country Sister's apartment instead of with a member.  It's a great idea in theory, but we're still working out the bugs.  Hopefully next week will go more according to plan. :)  Of course, when you're a missionary, nothing goes according to plan... but we've learned to roll with it.

Sister Wahlen and I have decided that if you're a missionary and you're not busy, you're doing something wrong.  So we're very busy. :) We've been meeting with a ton of less actives, and a few of them made it to church yesterday!  We were so happy to see them there.  Let's see...  Sister M, who has been inactive for years just showed up out of the blue a few weeks before Sister Wahlen and I arrived in the Westlake ward.  She's still kinda on the edge of activity, so we started visiting with her, and she said that the reason she started coming back was because she realized that there was something missing in her life, and she realized it was the church.  So she decided to come back.  So awesome!  We've also met with J and her mom, who stopped coming to church because somewhere down the line they were offended... which is so sad.  The church is perfect, the people are not, unfortunately.  But they both showed up at church yesterday, and we were so happy to see them!  They stayed for the full 3 hours, and that is the first time they've been to church in years. Unfortunately, K and her son T weren't at church yesterday.  We were supposed to meet with them this week, but she had to cancel on us, and when we tried to reschedule, she didn't get back with us. T is 10 and hasn't been baptized, so we're hoping we'll be able to teach him.  From when we've talked to him before, he is really interested and loves going to church, and he wants to be baptized.  We just need to set up a time to meet with him!

Now, on to our investigators... I don't know if I've ever told y'all about T - she's awesome, but she's been super busy so she hasn't been able to meet with us.  And she lives way on the far outskirts of our area, so we don't usually stop by her home.  But, Monday evening, we were trying to contact a referral in her area, and decided we would stop by.  It couldn't have been any better timing - she was having a crazy day, but we stopped by at the perfect time.  She feels the spirit every time we meet with her, but she's says she's not ready to commit.  Hopefully we'll be able to meet with her again soon.

As for R, we met with him, unfortunately M wasn't there. Hopefully we'll see them both this week.

Sorry this is so short, I've got to go.  But I love you all!  Have an awesome week!

Sister Ririe

Alma 17:9-11