Hello All!
Greetings from the Snowy land of Orillia. We have about a foot of snow on the ground and it is just lovely. Who knew that Tracting in a foot of snow could be so fun? That just reminded me of the song "Tracting in a Winter Wonderland" by Voicemale. Anyway....
This week has been rough. We have not been able to teach many lessons. Our one other lesson was taught to Jessica. We went over and gave her a copy of the Bible. She has finished the Book of Mormon and wanted to start the Bible. We talked about the Bible for a little bit, and that was about it. We set up an appointment with her on Monday night at 6:00, which she called and moved to Tuesday at 8:00. She called at 6:30 asking if we were coming. She had gotten confused at the time. That was when we went over there and met with her. We tried to meet with her a few times later in the week, but every time, something was not going right. On Friday night, her little sister threw a party and kept them up all night, so they slept all day Saturday and her mom slept all Sunday. Jessica did come to church, though. She only stayed for sacrament meeting, and she told us that she would call us when her mom woke up, but I guess that didn't happen. We stopped by to see her last night and talked with her for a bit. We also were talking with her Boyfriend, Andrew. He told us that he had been reading bits and pieces of the Book of Mormon. That was good. Hopefully we will be able to teach him as well. We met with Heidi and Pam, the Recent Converts in the Ward, and they are both doing well. Pam is still trying to kick that last cigarette a day. She says it is now just a habit thing, and the sometimes doesn't catch herself. Heidi is doing very well. she is going to school, working, keeping up with two very energetic little boys, and still managing to study the scriptures more than any recent convert I have ever seen. We were able to go over there and discuss what she read. She has a lot of material to cover (She was given a whole bunch on Sunday, Preach My Gospel, True to the Faith, the Joseph Smith Manual, etc.). She is doing great. We have done a lot of finding lately. A lot of tracting, and we have found some potentials that we hope to meet with later in the week. The work is progressing, slowly, but surely. We hope to meet with Jessica and Her mom tomorrow and re-set her for baptism and possibly her mom as well. It should be a good day tomorrow. But anyway....
Not too much time for randomness, but.... BYU vs. Utah - a bit disappointing, considering how high both teams were ranked.... Thank you to Pace for the little note about it. Bryson - play-by-play would still be
nice. Hope they both do well in Bowl-games.....Monday night's festivities sounded like a blast. We will have to do that again when I am there. See Mom's e-mail for details on that....But anyway....I love you and miss you all! Have a wonderful day! Have a great thanksgiving! Tell me how it is!
Your Obedient servant,
Elder Austin James Ashcraft
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