[Calvin caught Suzie driving - I'm certain she pulled over to chat with him...!?]
On Oct 14, 2013, at 6:56 AM, "Robert Wiley" <robert.wiley@myldsmail.net> wrote:
hey whattup
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Wiley, Suzanne <swiley@king5.com> wrote:
Crap!! Driving to work so can't chat!! Love u
On Oct 14, 2013, at 7:15 AM, "Robert Wiley" <robert.wiley@myldsmail.net> wrote:
please dont use that kind of language
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Wiley, Suzanne <swiley@king5.com> wrote:
Write me a letter goof!! Not in office yet!!
ok starting now.
This was prob the longest week of my mission. very
stressful. but everything turned out great.
Tuesday we had like the most frustrating lesson of my life,
but also the most spiritual?? So there is an inactive woman who got baptized
back in November. We had never met her before but Bishop asked us to go by. We
go by one night, thinking she would be some crazy old lady, but she answers the
door, and she´s like this gorgeous 40 year old blonde woman, who looked like a
real housewife of beverly hills or something. She was really nice and let us
in, and her house was SOOO nice. The biggest TV I´ve ever seen. We were
thinking, this is the jackpot, she´s really rich, really nice, she´s gonna
invite us over to eat all the time!!
Ok so she tells us she had a dream that an Angel dressed in white told her to get baptized, so she did. But then after the baptism she found out about tithing, and temples. She can´t believe that our church has so many temples around the earth. She says God doesn´t want temples blah blah blah. She told us she´s afraid because she read in the Bible about a Great and Abominable Church of the Devil. But it only mentions a great and abominable church in the BOOK OF MORMON!!!!! She said that the growth of the Church in 200 years was too rapid and that she´s afraid we are the great and abominable church...we bore our testimonies so hard. I´ve never felt the spirit so strong. After I finished my testimony it was really quiet. She looked like she was about to cry. It was obvious she felt the spirit. She stays quiet for a second, and then says ¨I just don´t think God wants temples. I´m afraid this is the great and abominable church¨. It was such a rollercoaster.... I honestly think it´s best if we left her alone for a while. We´ll see. Crazy...
Ok Thursday was the crazy day. So we have S...., who had a
baptismal date Saturday. We go over to her house Thursday with the Zone Leader
to do the baptismal interview. We all sit down (four of us missionaries) and
are chatting with her. And she says, I don´t know, this seems really fast, I
don´t know how I feel about it. This is the first time she´s ever had doubts.
Then she says, well I heard that mormons have 5 wives. We said no, and
explained that. Well you guys don´t believe in the bible, right? we said we do.
Well why are there only white people in the church? we said there arent and
explained that. We asked if she had any more questions and she said yes, but
she couldnt remember. Then someone knocked on the door. It was "someone
who comes and helps her with her chores" (although we had never seen or
heard of this woman before). She and S.... go into the back room for a second,
then S.... comes back and says, it just all seems so fast. i heard that you
baptize dead people. i read it in a book. So we realized that that person who
came over was a testigo, and she and a bunch of testigos had been talking with her and giving her anti-mormon stuff. We were freakin inside, but then elder
lish interviewed her, and we all went into the other room and prayed for her to
remember her testimony and stuff. she passed the interview and stuff, but then
we left and she left too and was going to hang with her testigo friends all
night. i thought for sure she was a goner. that night elder n cried his
eyes out as he talked to one of [her] friends who´s a member. the friend said
she´d go over and talk with S.... in the morning.
so friday morning was tense we had zone conference,
but we were still pretty distressed. the friend called and said that she went
and talked with S..., and brought a couple other members over, and they all
just shared scriptures in the bible that just whipped up on the testigos, and
everything went back to normal. what a relief.
president called after zone conference for transfers. elder
nuñez left, and i´m going to be with elder buckway. we were in the mtc together
and we were companions one day in the mtc. he´s a good guy, i´m excited.
friday night the valiant (primary) girls invited us to a
dinner at the capilla. we thought it´d be some little thing that they´d
probably forget about. but we got there and it was a full meal they all made,
with the table set and everything. they all shared a spiritual thought and we
ate. they told us how nervous they were for the dinner. it was so adorable i
wanted to cry. then they sang a couple songs. i have vids on my camera i´m not
sure if they uploaded to dropbox.
then saturday morning, we called S... an hour before the
baptism to see if she was on her way, but she told us she wasn't sure if she
wanted to get baptized. so we run over there, thinking we´re gonna have [some issues], but we got there and everything
was fine. she just had to get dressed. we showed up for the baptism a little late.
but it was all good. then yesterday i confirmed her in sacrament, which was
tough and i was nervous, but it was better than the last confirmation i did.
yayyy i felt really spiritual!!!!!
transfers were pretty exciting. excited to be in charge of
this area [District Leader]. hopefully we can have a few more baptisms this transfer.
love ya!!!
