¡Hola! Hope y'all are doing well, it's been another great and crazy week here in K-Falls! :)
T H E P E O P L E :
Betty! Okay quick recap on my lady Betty, all of Betty's family was baptized in the seventies, but she was going through a rebellious teen phase and refused. She then spent a lot of time with the one sister that went anti- and that was that. Until one day her sister Terri Long (of the Klamath Falls 4th ward) was going on a road trip with her and put in a CD. On that CD was a talk by none other than Sheri Dew. When the talk was over, Betty was crying, and she started meeting with missionaries a while later. That was a while ago, she hadn't been taught for a while until she heard us speak in sacrament meeting and asked us if we'd come over sometime. Did I tell you that long story just so that you could know that Sheri Dew is the largest converting factor of Betty so far? Yes, yes I did. You all had the right to know. Anywho...this week we taught the restoration! She went on some long tangents, and told us some long stories, but it was SO good! She very obviously already has a testimony of the restoration and the Book of Mormon. We just have to figure out what's holding her back from being baptized. None of our notes really say anything, except that she smokes (which if she does, shout out to her for at least stepping outside because her apartment smells delightful). She's so sweet and feeds us lunch after our lessons too! ♡
Lori! Shockingly I'm still crazy confused by this lady. Quick refresher, Lori's son was a member and he died a few years ago, somehow the missionaries got in contact with her and started reading the Book of Mormon with her. Not sure if lessons have ever been taught, but here we are. :) We read Moroni 8 and 9 with her last week. She didn't even flinch at Moroni 8, which isn't exactly flowery. Lori seems to agree with everything about the church, and believes that there's more than the Bible to God's word. She thinks it makes perfect sense for there to be modern prophets, and revelations, and another testament of Christ; but she doesn't believe in the church. I can't explain it, or make it less confusing for you, because I can't make it less confusing for me. She believes in almost every principle and teaching of the church, but not the church. She changes the subject when she feels the spirit, won't accept a church invite, but was SO excited when she learned that her son's proxy temple work was moving forward. We'll be finishing the Book of Mormon this week, and I plan on asking her about fifteen questions about it, and to ask her to follow the council of Moroni 10:3-5. She's holding back, and I just need to figure out why. Super weird, I always feel like I'm unraveling a puzzle when we meet with her, if there is any room in your prayers this week, ask for me to know what to do, because your girl is CONFUSED.
Anthony! What a precious child of God. Anthony is the sweetest child, we taught him CPR this week (Church, prayer, and read the scriptures). We then invited him to come to church, which he happily accepted....sadly that didn't happen. Apparently his dad decided to take him for the weekend (even though it wasn't his weekend, which is why I specifically asked this week). Anthony was apparently VERY upset about it because he promised us he'd be there though! Very sweet of him, he has SO much excitement about everything! :) Oh to be nine. Our only holdback with Anthony is that he lives with his dad every other weekend; so to get him there the four times required for baptism will take a while. :( Also, before we started our lesson with Anthony, I literally witnessed a three year old playing with matches and almost passed away... Long story, well actually that's the whole story, but the context is quite long.
L A S O T R A S C O S A S :
One of of the less active members we have lessons with straight up believes in bigfoot, not even in a joking way; so that's pretty great. Bigfoot is the unofficial mascot of Oregon though, so it makes sense.
Glow in the dark Volleyball! Okay so the YSA has Volleyball every week, and if we find a person to come we get to go! :) For obvious reasons this has been a goal this whole transfer. God really was out here answering my prayers to get Campbell and me there....sadly it took one of the STLs having to go to the ER (it has not been the greatest transfer for the K-Falls Zone). Pretty much a girl I'd been messaging a couple weeks ago, somehow ended up going to bible study with one of our FHAM Elders in Eugene? They then wanted to invite her to an activity here, and needed someone to fellowship her....I had a messaging history with her, and Sister Gough (who is actually over YSA) was out of commision. So here we are. ;) One woman's L, is another woman's W. We helped set up and everything, and it was SO fun. Sadly I forgot to take pictures, but just know it was cool. Most of the Zone was breaking glow sticks for close to an hour to prepare!
The pear farm! We ended up going to the pear farm again this week! The member driving some other Sisters had more room so we hitched a ride! It was SO cool! We got to platform pick this time, and it was epic. We were all harnessed in and picking as fast as possible trying to get all the pears without having to make the platform stop moving so we could catch up. Campbell and I did pretty well, the other sisters (who are BOTH shorter than us), were behind us and were supposed to be reaching the higher pears; but it wasn't working very well. Overall though, that was a great time, 13/10 would do again! Even with the sore shoulders the next day! & the very scraped up arms that come from the platform practically moving through a tree.
We got cancelled on last night so we went and saw the Articles of Faith church here in Klamath. Apparently there are only two in the world, and one of them is in good old K-Falls! :) Not sure why or how this church building ended up with it, but it's pretty cool!
Much love from Klamtucky! Hope you all have a great night, and pray I stay here in K-Falls for another go around, it's transfers next week!
F O T O S :
1 - don't worry his comp was sitting shotgun in the golf cart and didn't make the selfie
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3 - these baskets are the ultimate sympathy bellies!
4 - Asian pears are actually amazing!
5 - me and the AOF wall
6 - AOF wall
7 - ♡♡♡
8 - took a stroll to Elder way! :)
9 - NMT be wildin' in the Falls.
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