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| Cold Out |
We
are finishing up knocking on this street before we have to go to a
scheduled activity, so our time isn't super flexible. We knock on this
door and the sweetest lady answers with a baby on her hip and I can just
feel this is going to be a great contact. In the middle of us talking,
before we have a chance to get to introducing ourselves and the point of
why we knocked on her door, this lady from a pest control company comes
up the walk. She was obviously there for an appointment, which being on
the doorstep with someone else who is expected is already awkward
enough. The woman who answered the door gave a general "come on in!" and
I thought "surely she can't mean us, she doesn't even know who we are."
But the exterminator said "after you!" and the owner of the home nodded
so we came on in. The two of them immediately walked through the house,
back to where I'm assuming the exterminator needed to come look at.
Sister Holdaway and I stopped at the entryway and watched them walk
away. We figured the woman would come back any minute after she showed
her the problem, since she still didn't even know why the two strangers
standing in her foyer knocked on her door. So we waited..........and
waited........................ .and waited. The whole time we could see
her husband walking back and forth in the hallway giving us sideways
glances, probably trying to figure out who we were and he was moving
too fast for us to ever call out to him. So we kept waiting. Finally it
was way past time to go to our scheduled activity and she hadn't come
back so we left a sticky note with a pass along card on the inside of
her door and saw ourselves out. We ran down the street to our car,
laughing the whole way at how we had awkwardly stood in that strangers
foyer for upwards of 20 minutes. So so awkward haha.
On to some miracles!
First
of all Ed is great! We have had a few more lessons with him and he has
been reading the Book of Mormon consistently. He is so sweet and has
such a sincere desire to know and understand truth. He has a long way to
go, but because of that desire he has we are not worried. Recently we
invited him to be baptized and his response was "Yes! That's actually
something I have been thinking a lot about." How cool is that?! He had a
few questions and concerns though, mainly about his prosthetic leg and
the logistics of getting baptized. When we assured him he would have
help and that nothing like that would keep him from being baptized he
just lit up. I am so grateful we met him, which is something he has
also expressed multiple times. I am so excited for Ed!
Drum
roll please....... Damian was baptized this Saturday! It was a
wonderful, special, emotional, and inspiring day. His family has been
waiting for this for years and he was so excited and prepared. He has
made a lot of changes and done a lot of work to get here. I am truly
grateful to have been a part of and a witness of this phase of his
journey. Because it really has been a journey. It hasn't been easy for
him, but it has been amazing to see him grow into the new Damian over
the few months I have known him, he is inspiring to me. Watching the
ordinances of his baptism and confirmation be performed reminded me of
just how much bigger this work is than me. I am simply an instrument in
God's grand orchestra and I am so grateful and humbled to have this opportunity. I love being a missionary!
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| Damian! |
Have a great week and Just keep smiling!
