The weather outside is frightful here in Palmyra, but filled with adventure! Last email I didn't get to write too much about the people we are teaching, but there are a few, and they are fun! There is a young couple with a baby named Tim and Ashley who are on date for baptism, but would need to be married first. They are pretty quiet, but very interested in learning. Every lesson with them kind of feels like a Napolean Dynamite movie, but in the sweetest of ways. They've been coming to church every week, which is exciting!
We are also teaching a family named the Novicks. Wendy is a single Mom of two teenage boys who fight and mess around with each other, but slowly they are humbling themselves. We also teach a man George Rimmel, with a seven year old daughter. He has studied to be a pastor and recently felt that a lot of the churches he went to were corrupt, so he decided to make his own church, and was in the midst of doing that when the sisters came along! He is definitely a smart man and wants to know if this is true, is just taking the time to study it.
This week we've also found a new investigator. His name is Pat Parker. Pat Parker is a fox hunter. Pat Parker's uncle bought the farm behind "the Mormon hill." Pat Parker describes my mission. Sister Packard and Sister Murdock (who was here with Sister Murdock before I came in) found him, and the video below was our return appointment. He waved us in to look at his foxes, so we stood in the doorway with our purse propping the door open. This is what followed. It's people like these that make the mission worthwhile.
Being a Visitors' Center Trainer continues to be filled with adventures! Lots of scheduling changing (we should know by the end of the week about the schedule for the rest of the transfer so I can tell you my pdays, but for now I'm sorry for the sometimes surprise pday!), and lots of love to give. We go on what we call "team-ups" with the sisters, basically like doing a mini exchange because it would be slightly impossible to do full exchanges with everyone. It is a joy to be able to minister and that way, to just sit and listen to what the sisters need.
Overall, it's been a good week. I'm grateful for all the experiences I've had this year, and am only looking forward to the ones to come in 2018. I love you all and hope you have a great week!
Hermana Abreu
P.S I'm sorry there aren't too many pictures this week! I do hope you enjoy the videos though :) Sister Murdock and I die laughing whenever we watch the one with Pat Parker.
1. Sister Murdock and I doing online!
2. Out in the cold, but still smiling! Also, my hood looks like my hair 3. The one, the only, Pat Parker...
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