Family and Friends!
It
has been another great week here in the Pennsylvania Pittsburgh
Mission. Like I said before I am serving in the Wheeling West Virginia
Ward, but my area covers the half of the ward that is in Ohio. My
companion Sister Roberts and I have been working really hard the past
week. We have one investigator with a baptismal date and two more that
are progressing. We spend a great deal of time working with less actives
in the ward. The ward roster has about 300 members but only 125 come on
a regular basis. So there is a lot of work on that front but we are
super excited.
Last week started off with funeral of a medically less active
member of the ward. Clady McGee was in the ICU and passed away two
Thursdays ago, so her funeral was last Tuesday. She was an amazing
African American lady with an awesome family. She was the only member of
our Church so her family was very African American praise the Lord
types. So it was way cool to meet all of them. She had a great influence
on the people of our ward and all the people she came in contact with.
We have been working with Brother Vanstone, one of our
investigators, lately. His wife and stepson are members of the Church
and that is how he got introduced to the missionaries. We found out last
lesson that he is struggling with his testimony about Joseph Smith and
the Book of Mormon so we are teaching him the Restoration again tonight!
He is super great and has lots of potential, he comes to church just
about every Sunday. The only thing is he loves NFL and doesn't want to
miss his team play to come to church...
Tammy is our golden investigator. She is absolutely amazing.
She has been working on quiting smoking and has gone 7.5 days without
smoking. We are way proud of her. She has a great testimony of the Book
of Mormon and Joseph Smith. Her testimony of the Savior is also way
amazing! I can totally tell that Heavenly Father was working with her
before we meet her.
Susan is our other investigator right now and we don't exactly
know where she is. We found out this week she has a depression problem
and other things and she really wants to know more about the Kingdoms of
Heaven and also the Atonement. She is a great lady that can really use
the Gospel in her life so I hope that she will progress. She also seems
pretty sincere in her desire to know if the Book of Mormon is true. We
will see where that goes.
Susan's husband is a less active member that just loves to be
crazy. He is a Vietnam Veteran and he suffers from PTSD. He is just wild
and out there but underneath it all he has a great testimony of the
gospel. We are working on finding out why he isn't coming to church.
Heather is another one of our medically less actives. She is
really great and we have seen her grow so much! Last week we went to go
read the scriptures with her and she was really upset because of some of
the events of the day. She said that she didn't want to read. After a
couple of minutes though, she said that she thought we could read one
chapter. Well one chapter turned into three and she also prayed for us
at the end. She has been struggling with drinking tea and we got a text
from her yesterday that said she had thrown out all of her tea! She is
super funny and awesome. I am so proud of her.
We also had a great opportunity to go tracting. We decided to
try service tracting. We dressed down in our service clothes and tracted
that way. We ended up not getting any service opportunities but the
people were way nice and we actually got a couple of service referrals
that way. Some of the neighbors said that they didn't need anything but
that old couple might want help, or that blind lady could use help and
stuff like that. None of them where home though, but it was still a
great experience.
We go to a nursing home for service every Thursday and that
was super great. We helped the residents there paint pictures. It amazes
me how much like children elderly people become. They need so much
reassurance and kindness. We helped them mix their colors to get what
they wanted and also gave them ideas of what to paint. They were all
really cute. One of the residents, Mabelle, is 99 years old and hardly
looks 75. She is super active and way fun to be around, she has the
greatest stories!
When the sisters visited Clady while she was at the nursing
home before she went to the hospital, they ran into a lonely old man
named Joe Burch. He is the cutest WWII veteran that there ever was. He
was in the 101st airborne division that dropped over Normandy. He has
outlived all of his family including his children so he gets no
visitors. We visit him as a service when we have open time. We visited
with him on Saturday and I just totally fell in love with him. He sits
outside his room in the nursing home and hands out treats to the
residents as they pass by. He is just so giving!! It was so cute, he lit
up like a little light bulb when he saw us round the corner. He found
out that we didn't have a dinner appointment so he gave us money to go
out to dinner. I can't wait until the next time we get to visit him!
Well, that is pretty much my week in a nutshell. My
companion's name is Sister Roberts. She is from New Mexico and has been
out 12 weeks. We have so much fun together and we are both totally
dedicated to the work.
Remember the Lord loves you and the Church is so True!!
Sister Nay
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