June 2, 2014
And here's the transfer news!!!! Sister Coleman is going to a new area with a brand new missionary from the MTC. I am staying here for my last transfer and Sister Kellar is coming to be here in this ward with me!!!! Crazy?!?!?!?! My impression is that the lord has a long term plan for her. :) It'll make the transition to a new area much easier if she knows someone. And I'm excited to have her!
Stake Conference was wonderful! I really enjoyed it.
Remember the less active member who wanted to quit smoking? Well she doesn't anymore. At least not right now. She does want to work through the 12 step program the church offers. I think that was the biggest disappointment this week because I was so convinced she wanted to quit.
Ed is doing great! He had lots of questions about the plan of salvation. It was really fun to answer one question and then see him "connect all the dots". He came to the adult session of stake conference. Afterwards he said "the Lord is in this Church", and then later he said "that man said when I get baptized he wants to come... I'm still saying if." Haha. I think when he connects the dots about the Priesthood, he'll say "when".
As we were driving home one night, we saw a teenager walking along the side of the street. I kept driving and then turned around. said to Sister Coleman "I have an impression we need to talk with him" and she did too. We turned around and he wasn't there. what?! someone had picked him up. so we stalked the car back to their house. And then ran down the street to catch them before they went inside. (literally running to save souls) and talk with the people there. We told them we had an impression to talk with their grandson. They said they were Catholic and don't speak about religion with anyone. so we walked back to the car rather disappointed. I said a prayer we got to the car to ask for understanding. We both had the impression we needed to talk with the teenager specifically. So we went back. Knocked on the door. And he answered it! I felt the spirit so strongly just standing there. But none of the words could come out of my mouth in the right way. We told him we just felt like we needed to talk with him. His grandparents came out, and cut off the conversation. Nothing happened. again, we were rather disappointed. But this time I felt no more inspiration of what to do. I hope he remembers the night that two sister missionaries felt the spirit and went to talk with him. I hope one day he will come to the church. I will certainly keep an eye out for him on the streets. It saddens me that we weren't even allowed to speak about religion with him because of his grandparents. I hope he gets the help he needs.
We met the Peck family! They are less active because they felt unaccepted because of their political opinions. We asked if it made the church any less true? "No". We invited them to come back. She said that if she were to come back her attitude would need to change. We told her that's exactly what the Atonement does. It was so awesome!!!! They were very open and they said they'd read the chapter from the book of Mormon that we left them. I'm hopeful.
I think those were the highlights of the week. Looking forward to the coming week. :)
Love y'all!
Sister Cornelsen
P.S. Is it just me or is everyone I know getting married? It's kinda crazy how many engagements have happened the last month. Just sayin...
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