Hi Mom!
Thanks for sending that letter this morning, just in case. Just so you know, though, I will never get to the computer before 10:30 in the morning.
Our week has been really good. I was at the visitors center a lot, because Sister Carter had leadership training (since she's a trainer) two days in a row. When that happens, I just tag along with the other sisters at the VC. Sister Carter calls it day-care. :-)
Hm, contacts... Well, we found two new investigators this week! One of them is a lady named Tracy. She is Catholic, married, and has four children. I can't tell yet if she is interested or just polite, because she didn't ask very many questions during our lesson. She did say she would read from the Book of Mormon, though. And the other lady is named Jody. Her husband passed away, but she has a 6-year-old daughter, Jamie. She said that she and Jamie would read and pray about the Book of Mormon together! I'm really excited about her. During her closing prayer at our lesson, she prayed that she would be able to keep opening her mind and heart to our message. That was exciting, because at the beginning of our lesson, she had said she didn't believe there was any one true church, so that was big for her to consider that we might be speaking the truth, after all.
We also got some exciting news yesterday. First, you should know that about a week and a half ago, Sister Carter got the idea that we should pray specifically to find a family to teach, because we weren't finding any investigators, and we wanted to find some really good investigators who would join the Church as a family. Anyway, after that, we found Tracy on Tuesday, and then just yesterday we found Jody. And also yesterday, we got referrals from members for 3 more families to teach! Well, one of them is a single lady whose husband passed away. The other 2 families are friends of a brother in the Kirtland Ward. They have already been to church, and they are already planning to come to general conference this weekend. All we have to do is teach them! I hope it works out.
I love being in Amish country. We went down there again this week with members for dinner at an Amish restaurant, and it kind of reminds me of being in Jerusalem, because the people there live their religion so fully. I love it.
Oh, did I tell you about the Germans in my branch? There are three German families! They are all related. Two of the families are inactive, though, and one is a part-member couple, but they both come to church every Sunday. They are awesome, I love talking to them in German. And we just made contact with their son and grandson this week, and their grandson loves the gospel! He is 12 and hasn't been baptized, and his dad is inactive but not anti-Mormon. We'll see what happens.
I hope Jocie goes to BYU, too! Especially since DaNece is loving it so much. It would be fun if they got to room together, maybe? Wow, half our family is going to end up out west in a few years!
Tell Norman hello for me.
Wow, Ceci is so smart. She is quite the poet! And scriptorian, it sounds like. Tell her to keep emailing me poems, I loved the one I got from her a few weeks ago.
Is James particularly enjoying any of his classes? Tell him I love him and miss him!
Hm, for Sophie, I'm not sure, just not East Cary. Year-round sounds like a nightmare. I loved going to Ligon, but I don't know if Sophie wants to do the magnet school thing as much.
That's wonderful that you're getting cello lessons! :-) Are you going to perform again anytime soon? What about your writing? Are you reading anything good?
I love you and miss you! Thanks for your wonderful emails, they (and Dad's) are the highlight of every Monday!
Love,
Katherine
Katherine
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