Week 79 - Aruba

That's 79 of 80!!! (Can you tell this father is excited?)

Thanks for reading!  Allie will be home in TEN days (September 20th!  She'll be speaking in church at 12:30 pm on Sunday, the 23rd, and she'd LOVE for all her friends to be there to hear her report!  Please join us!  The address is: 2955 E Frye Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85040.  EVERYONE is welcome!

HELLOOOO!!! :)

This week was actually pretty normal! No surprises! Before I get started though.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHASE!!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!! Hope you have a wonderful day!

Anyway.......... WOW! We have some awesome investigators! Super awesome! Lets see how many I will have time to write about.....

First we have Michael. MICHAEL IS SOOOO COOOOOL!!!!!!!! that sounds like the exact way I started talking about him last week, but seriously. This guy... We taught him about Jesus Christ's original church last lesson and he was LOVING it. He said "there just isn't a church like that today!"  He just understands so darn well. Its CRAZY.  He has soooo much potential!  He has just been waiting for this message for so long and we finally found him!

Then there is Jonathan. He is awesome too.  SO many awesome people.  We had a lesson with him more about the restoration and Christ's church and all that, and he had a friend over who sat with us! HE was literally teaching her everything. We would explain and then he would reexplain just to make sure she got it and he would teach her perfectly.  It was awesome.  He has a lot of potential as well and he is just really open to learn!

Leo (pic attached) is doing well, he is just very hard to see!  We taught him the BoM and he loved it! Hopefully he will actually read it... that is the problem we have with many people hahahaha.

Jairo and Nieves are doing awesome as well! They accepted the BoM with a big smile and they are both really just open and understanding!  We are hoping to get these people to church!!

Donny!!!!!!!!!!!! HE SURPRISED US BIGGGG TIME. We had previously tried to teach just the beginning portion of the restoration several times and it just wasn't quite reaching him, so we decided to just teach him the first vision and then drop him.  WELL... We taught it to him along with Jesus Christ's church, and it just totally clicked. He realized how important it would be and what it would mean if there was a prophet on the earth, and that Joseph Smith really was a prophet. He just got it. Like a little light switched on in his mind. We are hoping he is now open to the Holy Ghost to receive his answer about whether or not he was a prophet! That was a really big spiritual experience for me! So awesome! The message of the restoration just makes sense and it can change lives! I know its true!

Church yesterday was awesome as well! Lots of great talks! Marlien (my Surinamese convert from a year ago) spoke and did AWESOME! She has been busy busy in the church! Teaching relief society and now has a new calling in the YW! She is cleaning the church building and doing all sorts of stuff! Makes my heart sing! :)

THE BOOK OF MORMON CHALLENGE! Sorry about the confusion this last week! It was just a big mix up haha! Hopefully you are all still caught up and its changing your heart more and more everyday!  Well, that is actually all I have for you all this week! Have a wonderful week and keep reading the Book Of Mormon! :)

-Sister Woodbury