Week 6: 18 and two kids, Lesson 1 for Sunday School, and Miracle Moment
It's been a great week!!!
Last Monday all the sisters and I went bowling. I don't think I'd been bowling since last semester of uni (New Zealand for college). It was a blast!! If my bowling teacher would have seen my score though he would have been pretty disappointed haha.
Anyway after bowling we went to dinner with a sister in the Mount ward. She's so cute!! She's a tiny old lady, who is about the size of me and dresses as if she was still in her late 20's :), but I still love her!! Probably the sweetest girl I know. Not to mention it was her birthday and she was feeding two sister missionaries. So we gave her a colored card and a bright purple scarf and she though it was the best thing ever!!
Right after dinner we meet with her granddaughter, who has been less active for a while. Both her mom and grandma still go to church, but she's just busy and hasn't been to church. I found out that night that she was only 18 and has two young children, and she's raising them on her own. I can't imagine being in her situation, to be a year younger than I am now, and being a mother of two. It's hard especially when she wants to get a job and find a place of her own instead of living with her mother, but she needs to take care of her kids. I think she finally felt ready to come back to church, but she just needs help; she just feels stuck, so hopefully things will work out for her.
We have a family in the Welcome Bay ward that is some of the best people I know. They are actually from Utah, but have been living in New Zealand for a couple years, and are actually moving back to Utah in about a month. Anyway, the father has been doing some missionary work of his own and been talking to one of his clients. They've had deep doctrinal discussions, and she wants to be baptized, so now all we have to do is teach her the lessons. So he's done all the hard work for us. He brought her to church on Sunday and during the Sunday school hour we taught her the Restoration. She was travelling this weekend, so we didn't see her yesterday but we're excited to she where she goes next.
The last thing I wanted to talk about is our Miracle Moment. Just a few days ago we were visiting a different member in the Mount ward (sorry I haven't been using their names just don't want any privacy issues), when her phone rang. The happy bright smiling sister we were just talking to became concerned and worried. She hung up and explained to us that that was her friend that just called. Her friend was extremely upset and was talking about not wanting to live anymore. The Mount sister wanted to visit her, but had work in a couple of minutes, so we went instead. When we got to her friend's house, she was super upset. She had one of her legs amputated last year and has felt so lonely. Her husband committed suicide and her daughter can't handle to see her that way, and doesn't talk or contact her. So we were there to comfort her and tell her she's loved and a daughter of God. We even watched a couple Mormon Messages with her. We later found out that she doesn't believe in a God, she believes in a higher power, but not a God. She's agreed to meet with us again so we can teach her what we believe.
Sorry for the long email but I have a couple pictures to attach this week. Most of them are from hiking the Mount last week but I hope you enjoy the pictures and have a great week!!
Sister Welker
Josh 1:9
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