The week started pretty slow but picked up near the end. We did commit one of our new gators from last week to baptism so that is sweet. I think we'll set a date with her on Wednesday. She is amazing. The Spirit was super strong while we taught her a lesson about the Priesthood and why we don't baptize infants and it all made sense to her so that was great. Then near the end the Spirit was just screaming at me to invite her to be baptized, I really hadn't planned on it but when the Spirit was prompting that strong I had to do it. Well I invited her and man SUPER spiritual and right after she said yes she just burst into tears and the spirit was super strong. It was awesome!
Oh so there is this family, the Lee's, they are amazing!! well on Tuesday we were stuck in Verona about 6 miles away from our place at 7:30 at night well there was no way we were going to make it home walking on time. Well as we started to walk and call people seeing if they could pick us up, sis lee and her daughter Adaline drove past. Well then on Sunday Sis lee came up to me and said that after they drove past us, Adaline said, "mom i think that is the first time I haven't seen Elder Steiner smiling" well she is like 10 or something like that I felt way bad! The first thing I thought of was all the people telling me right before I left to just smile and they would let me in the door. Well now I have to make sure I am always smiling when I see the Lee's.
After reading this experience I remember people telling Jeff this very thing about his smile, it is amazing how the Lord can recall the smallest details of our lives.
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| The Zoo in Madison |
From October 7
Well we were walking to an appt this week and there was a lady trying to cross the street with a stroller with a suit case in there, then she was trying to carry her baby and pull another suit case behind her. So we helped he I pulled the suit case and E Peterson pushed the stroller with the suit case in it up around the corner to the laundry mat. So that was a fun random act of service that we did. Then while we were walking out of the laundry mat this lady looks at us and says, "you must be mormon" we say we are, then she says I could tell by the way you were dressed and how you were helping people out and just how you carry yourselves. So that was really cool to see that people do notice us and that we do stand out.
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| Hanging with Tim on his birthday |
We got railed on a little by Elder Perkins (zone conference), He took a few shots at us but the biggest one was probably when he said to the two zones that," YOU AREN'T PREPARED." He said he doesn't know what it is but the Spirit had been telling him to say that for 3 hours so he did." so we took that to heart, well elder Peterson and I did and the work has really picked up as you can tell. We just said alright time to be EXACTLY obedient and it is not that we were being disobedient but we just said okay everything is going to be exactly as it is supposed to. It has definitely strengthened my testimony because after we did that bamski!! 3 new investigators, so we are going to keep that up for sure.
That's about it for now. I did receive a letter from Jeff's mission president with his "call" as a trainer, that was pretty cool. It's amazing how fast they learn and move in the work. I guess it all comes with the territory, they were born into and live in a fast moving world and they know how to deal with that. Be sure to drop Jeff an email or a letter, he's still in Madison for now, I'm sure he'd enjoy hearing from you!
