Monday, May 11, 2009

Hey Ya'll!!!

Just takin a few minutes to let ya'll know whats kickin in Tejas!!
My first week here, we knocked on many doors and talked to many people, but we had 5 definite miracles!
On the first saturday here, we went to knock on a members street. The first door we knocked on, we introduced ourselves as missionaries, and the guy said "Wanna come in? Or do ya'll wanna talk outside?!!!" Basically the Lord has been preparing him cause he's our golden investigator right now! His name is Bryan and he's about 23ish. He came to church with us this last sunday and LOVED it! We were thrilled! We're going back to teach him again tonight! Pray for him! He has a few issues that he needs to overcome, but he's gettin in the water!!
The 4 other ones were miracles as well! Clara is 95, so we need to hurry quick with her, and her reaction to the restoration pamphlet was "How come I never heard of this Joseph Smith? Is he in the bible? Where can I read about him?" We didn't get very far in the lesson because she just kept saying that and that she liked his account of the first vision! It was amazing!
Katie is 21 and a mother of a 9 month old girl! She was gonna come to church, but the minister at hers called her and got her to go there instead. :P But we'll get her!!
Jason is Bryan's friend and he was also supposed to come to church with Bryan, but we didn't get a hold of him! Geez....but we're teaching him again next week. He's a rapper and has a few local places to hit before he comes back home. He thought it was pretty cool!
Francis is a hispanic woman who we found in a trailer park that Sis Callahan (my trainer) had not hit yet! The lesson we taught her didn't go very well because we had to teach it outside (got a few good bug bites from that one), but we'll definitely get her going soon!
Their all so awesome and if we can work with a few of them, we'll hit our baptismal goal this month of 3!! Pray for them and us to work hard at it!!
Fredericksburg is an awesome area and I love it here! We don't have a lot of time, but today was p-day and we went down to San Antonio to play some games with another zone! It was pretty sweaty fun, let me tell ya! ;)
Lots of miracles have been happening and we hope they keep coming! President keeps telling us that May is the month of miracles! The first presidency has told us we can double our baptisms if we work hard at it, and our goal is 100!! We've never been able to hit it, but we got pretty close last May, 97!! Pray for us down here is Texas!!
I miss everyone! I got the chance to call home yesterday and heard all the news about Alan's wedding and the fact my little sister is going ring shopping!!! AHHH!!! I'm so excited! Home sounds like fun, but I'm having some fun too!
I'm having a great time thus far and I hope ya'll write me soon!!! Love ya!
Sista Winters!!

2 comments:

Marci said...

sounds like it's going great er bear. i'm so excited for you to have such an exciting start on your mission. it sounds like you are reaching a lot of good people and they are willing to listen. yay! love you hon,

Anonymous said...

I love you dearly! im so glad everything is going good for you:)