Kirtland, 10/4/10

Hi Mom!

I'm here right now, and we've got to go in a few minutes! But I'm glad you got here!

 

I'll go ahead and write you while I'm waiting. How did you like general conference? I loved it. I especially liked all the talks about faith and obedience.

 

We had a good week here in Chardon. At conference, we met the mother and the son from one of the families I told you about last week--the ones who had been referred to us by a member. The mother said she didn't want to meet with us yet, because she and her husband were both still reading the Book of Mormon and the gospel principles manual, and they wanted to discuss it together before they decided to meet with us.She seems really cool, though, and I think they will want the lessons eventually.

 

Also, our investigator Tina watched part of conference, which is really exciting, because she hasn't been to church for almost a year, I think. She is definitely making progress.

 

Also, there is a young woman named Christy in our branch who just barely got baptized in June. Anyway, her boyfriend Gino had been investigating the church before I got here, but he stopped. Just this last week, though, she started bringing him to her new member lessons, and he came and watched conference, too! I hope he opens up again, I think it is so great to teach people that age. (Because that's how old you were! :-)

 

We had a rather unusual experience this week with the Amish. It happened on Friday, when Sister Carter and I were eating dinner with the Calandra family. For her job, Sister Calandra taxis Amish people. They can't drive, but they can have other people drive for them, so there are a few Amish who regularly call Sister Calandra whenever they need to go somewhere, and she just goes and picks them up. Anyway, Sister Carter and I were there eating dinner, and Sister Calandra got a phone call from her Amish client Kathryn, who is about 24 years old and who needed to be picked up from somewhere in ten minutes. So Sister Calandra asked us if we wanted to come along, too! We had just been talking about how we wished there was someway we could develop a relationship with the Amish part of the community, and this seemed like a golden opportunity, so we did! And then when we got there, it turned out that Kathryn's friends needed rides too, so we rode in the car with three Amish women and a little Amish boy for about 15 minutes. We talked to them about their language, which sounds a lot like Swiss German, and about our missions--we definitely didn't proselyte, but just explained to them about what we did as full-time missionaries. It was so neat!

 

What have you been up to? I love you! How is the family doing? I hope everything is going great! I miss you a lot!!

 

Love,

Katherine