October 4, 2015

Dearest family and friends,

This week has been pretty alright, not anything too exciting but we keep doing everything that we can to help everyone here.

Jemma dropped us... It was really sad and the first time I can think of that I actually cried when an investigator dropped me. I was just most sad that she is going through a really hard time in her life right now and I know that the gospel is exactly what she needs to help get her through, but she just can't see that at the moment.

We set a baptism date with Trenyce for October 31, but now we just have to figure out how to get her to church since her parents are less active.

We taught Vin again this week. We answered a couple more of his questions about Jesus Christ and read about the nativity in the New Testament. It's really cool to see such a young kid from a non-Christian background so interested in learning about Jesus Christ!

We taught Tish as well. She is doing pretty good. We had a really great lesson with her about our purpose here on earth. She said that she always felt like her purpose was to suffer, but we did our best to follow the Spirit and help her see that she is a unique daughter of God who loves her and has given her trials to make her stronger and to help her rely more on Him.

Sister Rhodes and I had a really great experience on Saturday. We were in one of the suburbs that we cover for almost the whole day and NOTHING was happening. We tracted, we tried to follow up with new contacts, we tried to visit less active members from our ward list, and nothing was coming from it all. Eventually we were ready to give up and move on to another suburb before dinner to try some more new contacts when Sister Rhodes noticed the name of a less active couple on our ward list that we had overlooked before. So we decided to go there and then leave. When we drove up the couple was sitting in their garage talking. We walked up and started talking to them and they said that it was interesting we had just showed up because they were just talking about how they needed to go to church the next day. We sat down and had an amazing lesson with them. The Spirit was really strong and they were sharing their experiences about how they miss the Spirit that they feel when they come to church. Unfortunately they didn't come to church yesterday, but we plan to go back and help them again to want to come.

That's all for this week.

Love yous heaps!

Sister Bingham

1. I forgot to send this one a couple weeks back. This is at our stake president's house. Dad, I thought you might want to adapt it for Bradley who is old enough to date now. ;)