Monday, March 11, 2019

This week it rained...a lot!  We were soaked so many days, but we had fun with it!  A couple times we stopped avoiding walking through the puddles because our shoes were already soaked.  Funny of the week:  On one of these days while it was soaking we chapped into a lady that opened the door and her eyes went SO BIG at how wet we were.  She couldn't hide it.  She told us she wasn't interested and shut the door.  Sister Coffman and I walked away and busted up laughing at how horrified she was that we were that wet.

Unfortunately, our friend from Lithuania got really sick this week and couldn't meet with us.  Then he couldn't come to church because he had to make up time at work.  But he texted us and told us that he had been reading the Book of Mormon and that he is really interested to keep reading!

Our Chinese lady had a presentation to give for work yesterday, so she couldn't come to church either.  She has been keeping in contact with us though and hopefully we can teach her this week!

We were chapping this week and toward the end of the night a man opened the door and invited us in.  His sister was there, with his niece as well.  He sat and told us that God wasn't real, but his sister was very insistent.  She kept standing up for us and said the things we were doing were good.  As we kept talking and trying to share a little bit of doctrine she loved the things we were saying.  She gave us her address and said she would love for us to come by sometime and teach her 15 and 17 year old daughters.  What a miracle!  Hopefully we will be able to meet with them this week!

Yesterday it felt like all of my world collided.  Sister Coffman and I were greeting people as they came into church.  One YSA walked up to me and said, "Sister Baker, there's a man and a woman that want to talk to you outside."  So I walk outside and see Brooke and her uncle Les are in Cumbernauld (from her previous area - Perth).  They came to church.  It was so good to see them and to have them at church in Cumbernauld.  Then as we were waiting for church to start Ellie Cummings, a girl that went to Cottonwood, walked into the building!  She was there with her husband.  It was so strange to see someone else I knew and she was married!  Crazy.  I'm so grateful for all the people I know, whether it's Utah, Scotland, or Ireland.  I am grateful for the example of everyone around me and the love they show me.  I truly have been blessed.