Tuesday we did that, tried to see a few potentials, had mormon.org time, went to ward council, and then did some street contacting! Wednesday we had district meeting, then we met with a less active Brother Frost! He was baptized four years ago but hasn't been coming to church for a while now... we've been meeting with him for a couple of weeks now and just read the Book of Mormon with him, trying to help him to understand it better. He has kind of a crazy work schedule because he works all night and then sleeps during the day usually... he makes doughnuts!! :D His parents used to own Frosty's doughnuts which is the famous delicious doughnut shop here but they sold it and now he just has his own little doughnut place... so it's really great teaching him because we read the Book of Mormon and then eat doughnuts :) but he keeps telling us he doesn't have an excuse but doesn't come to church...but guess what yesterday he came!! So that was a miracle! :) He told us if we prayed hard enough maybe he would come...we told him he should pray hard too... looks like it worked! he came! :) but he only came to sacrament he wouldn't stay for the rest.. he said he didn't promise that so we'll try for next week :) that was super awesome though!
Then we went and saw Brother Eldredge and decided that that was our for reals last time to go see him regularly. We talked about gratitude and told him how grateful we are for him and that he's come back and how his testimony has grown! It was sad to tell him we couldn't come every week but he said he'll still be at Book of Mormon class! :) Thursday was Thanksgiving!!! We didn't really do much in the morning... we walked outside and it was so quiet!! Nobody was out so there was no one to talk to... haha so we went on a nice walk to see Sister Wallace who was in the hospital! We also got news that Brother Hersom (who is sister wallace's brother and Brother Rainey's dad) passed away Tuesday night :( So sad but we know that he doesn't have to be in pain anymore and he is in a better place! We talked to Sister Wallace about the temple and she said it was so amazing and she is so happy she could go :) Now hopefully we can work with Sister Hersom and help her to get to the temple so she can be sealed to Brother Hersom! It is so sad but I think a lot of good things will also come from it...he has such a big family with lots of non-members and less actives so we will talk to more of them at the funeral this week. I'm grateful that I can be here another transfer and be here for this amazing family that I love so much!! The Hersoms and the Raineys are so amazing!! :)
So we just visited with Sister Wallace for a while and then after that we walked home...did a few things around our apartment and then headed out to walk over to our Thanksgiving dinner appointment! Good thing we didn't have the car so we got lots of walking in so we could eat lots of delicious food :) We had lots of fun we got to go to the Gardners house and have dinner with their cute family and also the Bankheads! It was a party with 8 adorable little kids :) so that's pretty much all we did! Ate food, played some games with their family and then after that... we did some more walking :)
Friday was really good! We did our weekly planning and then at 2 we went to Damariscotta for an exchange! Sister Huefner came back with me and we had an exchange full of miracles!! :) I'm really learning that if you expect miracles then they will happen....! We just decided that we were going to have miracles and then hey guess what?! We did! :) so first off we picked up the car from the elders and i got to drive for the second time in forever..haha that was fun and we went and contacted a referral and it was this cute old man and we gave him a book of mormon and he asked how much it was and we told him it was free and he was so happy! We tried to go and see him yesterday and he said he doesn't have time to learn right now and he's not really interested but we told him to just keep the book and read it and we'd stop by again another time... so then we went to dinner at the Johnstons and it was super fun! We read the Book of Mormon with their family they're trying to finish by the end of the year and they're in 3 Nephi! So that was super fun and then we sang all of the Christmas songs in the hymn book and that was so great :) Then after that we stopped by the church to drop off our trash and we were wondering what all the cars were doing there so we went in and it was the stake dance! So we got to talk to some of the youth there and Sister Huefner got to see some young women from her last area that she probably wouldn't have been able to see ever again on her mission so that was a miracle! And we got some delicious cookies.. haha then we went and saw a potential investigator and it was a miracle that she was home and answered her door! We've been trying to contact her forever and she finally was there :) We talked to her for a little bit and then we just did some street contacting but nobody was really out.. it was pretty cold! So then we went to 7 eleven and got some hot chocolate and the cashier saw us and said "Sisters!" like she knew us or something.. haha but we didn't know her and then she said "are you nuns??" and we said nope! we're missionaries!.... she got a piece of paper, wrote her name and then said hot chocolate's on me! and gave us her name and her daughter's name and asked us to remember her in our prayers! so then we gave her our number and a mormon.org card and she said she would definitely check it out! :) So free hot chocolate and a potential!! :)
Saturday we did some tracting and didn't have much luck but we did talk to some nice people! :) Then we exchanged back then Sister Hoffman and I went and saw some less actives.. then came home for dinner and we went to Orange Leaf to celebrate our 6 month mark since we were so sure I wouldn't be here on the actual day to do it! haha but maybe we'll just have to go again anyways :) Then we did some street contacting and then came home and waited and waited for the phone to ring! and it didn't! no call!! haha
Sunday we went to church and everyone was so suprised to hear that I'm staying another transfer! :) And both the elders are staying too! Crazy! So it's going to be a transfer full of lots of miracles! That's what i'm gonna expect...so that's what's gonna happen! :) I'm so excited that i'll hopefully be able to be here for Corey's baptism! We went and saw them yesterday and got to help them decorate their Christmas tree and then had a little lesson! We talked about the word of wisdom and he said he would try his hardest to live it! He said the closing prayer and it was so good! He is continuing to progress and you can see his desire! It was so fun to hear them talk about how they told their family at Thanksgiving how he had set a date! So I know that he will continue to prepare! So exciting!! :)
So there's our week! pretty exciting stuff happening here so i'm so lucky I get to stay!! :) it's gonna be a good transfer! Love you all and hope you have a great week! :)
Love,
Sister Tait
p.s. here's our district! :) and we're all staying together for another transfer!!
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