Tuesday, February 17, 2015

The Week of Thinking All Was Clear, And Then It Wasn't....But There Was a Baptism!!!

February 9, 2015

So this week was fun because I got the all-clear to start going to work again, but then Saturday my tummy was upset from the drugs I had taken and now I'm trying to get that cleared up. Sister Maddox has been desperately bored this week. Because I can't leave the house for more than 10 minutes at a time :)

Sorry there's still no pictures. The walls of the house are quite boring to take pictures of. I would know. I'm bored of looking at them. Just kidding. 

I've been STUDYING! I read the Book of Mormon in 3 days...... BEAT THAT MOM! 
(Is my deal with Uncle Mark still going? Cuz if so he's gonna owe me a lot of money when I get home)

I also read Jesus the Christ this week and that book is amazing. It took me a few pages to get  used to the language. But it really bugged me when I had to get out a dictionary a few times because I couldn't figure out what the word meant.....

But Friday Hunter got baptized! The Elders got to teach him but we met him first and they wanted us to teach him! His best friend is a member and one day they started talking and gave him a Book of Mormon. He read the first chapter and the next day asked his friend when he could get baptized.......

Dear youth, talk to your friends. 

Anyways, it was really awesome because he invited so many family and friends there were more non-members than members. I've never seen that before and it was awesome because most of them live in Forest!!!! He's very missionary minded :)

And that's pretty much that. We made it to Sacrament yesterday and left immediately after, but there was a Sister there that I never thought I would see come back to church. She lost her Mom recently and then there's been so much going on in her life. But she told us she realized that she had been blaming God for everything when she really needed him more than anything else. And now she's trying to reach out to him again. That was really cool.

This ward is awesome. They take such good care of me with all my issues. And they never cease to be patient.

We did get to see Jake Thursday and we talked about commandments. It was interesting that his Dad came in at the end for the closing prayer. He was so surprised that his wife prayed and asked her how she knew what to say. So we're interested to see his interests in the Gospel change as he sees his family change. We gleaned from that lesson that he's never heard her pray, and that "church" has been a mute point between them for years. So we're hopefully going to get him excited to learn as well and start to have a relationship with his Heavenly Father. We love their family. They're so cute and funny!!!!

-Sister Packard

Best:
1. The scriptures.
2. Carrot apple soup. I finally made it because I was told to eat lots of carrots and apples so I figured it was the way to go! And Sister Maddox told me I now need to start a restaurant called "Carrots and Apples". And I'll only make foods that have carrots and apples in them....I LIKE it! Not gonna lie. That soup was absolutely the bomb. Best I've ever made.
3. It was cold all week and then yesterday was 73 degrees! And today's looking to be  the same!

Worst:
1. I'm in pain and don't feel good!
2. I forgot to do best and worst last week.
3. No pictures, sorry you don't get to see my beautiful face.

4. Some peeps have fallen off the road map. Are you still alive? I can't love you if I don't know what's going on in your life! Because knowledge is the key to love. That's why we have to learn more about Jesus Christ. So we can love him more.

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