Kirtland, 9/13/10

Hi Mom!

Oh, I'm so glad you're starting to get back into your own routine. It will be great when you can start practicing and writing again! Everything sounds like it is going so wonderfully at home! Especially with family home evening and weekly family activities. I hope you're still doing that when I get home! Did I tell you that I found out my release date will be Jan. 17th, 2012? So I will have a good three months with you guys before I go back to BYU. That will be fun. When it comes...

Thanks for reading my email to Nana! I would love to hear from her. Oh, and don't worry about finding Mira's address, I don't think she actually emailed it to me. I will just look her up online.

Sorry, I can't write as much today, because we had an all-day activity at the John Johnson farm and now we're rushed. It was cool, though! I got to see the room where Amasa Lyman probably slept when he lived with the Johnsons, according to our guide.

Sister Carter and I have been getting more into proselyting lately, because traffic at the visitors' center is dying down for the fall. We have seen a few little miracles tracting. I am just so surprised every time someone listens to what we have to say! Most people just don't want to have anything to do with us, which I think is pretty normal for missionaries, but sometimes someone will open the door, and we say we have a message about how God has reached out to us again today, and we talk for a couple of minutes, and then Sister Carter says, "If God had called a prophet again today, wouldn't you want to know about it?" And then they say yes! I think it is amazing when they do. Some people are so receptive, they are like the pretend investigators at the MTC. And one woman we found on Saturday, after we pulled out our Book of Mormon and told her basically what it was, said, "Oh, where can I get one of those?"

Anyway, we have about 4 people right now who seemed really promising from tracting last week. I hope they will let us teach them when we go back this week! We don't, however, really have any investigators. Besides one woman who has been investigating for 3 years.

The people around here are so religious, in general. Everyone goes to church. Most people aren't mean to us, but we did run into one woman yesterday who was combative and ran and got her Bible so she could prove to us that we were wrong about the Godhead.

  I'm glad Norman is feeling comfortable getting back to church. Oh, I should probably get going, we need to buy groceries. Love you! Thanks for updating me on everything, I love reading your emails!

 

Love,

Katherine