We have talked to many people who have connections to GA, and even to Dalton, surprisingly. In fact Ken is working on projects at work right now with people who live there! Rachel may even get a referral from her dad here in Utah!! Interesting for a city with just over 33,000 people.
Pretty, huh?
Here are excerpts and pics from Sister Trommlitz:
We have been so blessed through
referrals! To start the week we had 9 we needed to contact, and then we
received another 10 after only being able to contact 6!
One of our referrals we received
was a self-referral from mormon.org. He was
requesting a Book of Mormon. We called him and he seemed very interested so we
set up an appointment for the 18th to deliver the Book of Mormon and share a
message.
Yesterday, we are sitting in
ward council (a leadership mtg. that ward church leaders and missionaries attend) when we get a knock on the door from the ward clerk who says there
is a boy here for his first time. Hermana Horrocks and I look at
each other and suddenly realize that he is the referral that we talked to on
the phone! We jump up and introduce ourselves and then show him to the chapel.
We couldn't believe it! We hadn't even met him yet, didn't even invite him to
church and he just showed up! He already knew a lot about the church
from mormon.org
and lds.org,
but we were able to teach him a lot throughout church. The Elders told us that
he even said the closing prayer in Elder's Quorum! (the teacher didn't know he
was an investigator when he asked him... whoops! ha!) We then invited him to
the baptism that night of an 8 year old girl in the ward, and he came! He is 18
and attending Dalton
State. He truly has been
prepared. We are teaching him today about the restoration of the gospel and I still can't
even believe how all of this has happened. Heavenly Father has truly led him
here.
Then on Tuesday the Relief Society
had an indexing activity that we attended. A member invited a single mother of 5 kids working at Wendy's which is where they met. I sat down next to her and began talking to her -
first about family history, but soon about the Book of Mormon and how it can
answer the questions she has in her life. She began to get a little emotional
as we testified that the Book of Mormon can help her with the trials she faces.
The spirit was very strong. She accepted our invitation to come to her home and
teach her more.
On Saturday we had our first
lesson with her. We met her children who I fell in love with! They would LOVE
primary. The lesson went well and we hope to visit her again this week.
The couple who got married is still working towards baptism. They have been coming to church and Rachel and S. Horrocks are hopeful it will be soon.
I got a little emotional when reading the story about the single girl with 5 kids. It sounded similar to my own family's conversion story. My mom was raising us 3 kids by herself when introduced to the church through a client whose hair she was doing as a beautician in California. It was through the weekly children's primary program that we attended as children, that our family's journey to the gospel began. Since being baptized 40 years ago, mom has never looked back. I can't recall a single Sunday that we missed church. Not to mention all the activities and teaching opportunities we were able to be a part of as youth during those years. Fast forward to today and mom's 6 children, 13 grandchildren have been baptized, with at least 2 more to come in a few years. All of us are active and participating members of the church along with wonderful spouses, but 1. He'll come back around... :) Baptism surely is the key to the gate that leads us back home to our Heavenly Father. We miss Rachel, but wouldn't want her to be anywhere else!
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