Jaw Dropper!

11/16/09
Hey Y'all!!!
So guess what?!? On Sunday as we were walking around the chapel waiting for sacrament meeting to start, praying silently our investigators would show up and making small talk with the members, all the sudden I see this white haired guy in a pink polo shirt, black jeans and nikes walk into the chapel. My jaw dropped!!!!!! It was Bruce Oakley!!! Brucecame to church!!! Dun dun nuh nuh....VICTORY!! We were so darn excited to see him there, and he loved the fact that he surprised us, I thinkthat was his plan all along, ha ha what a stinker! But anyway he came,the rest of his family is all sick with the flu so he came by himselfand only stayed for sacrament meeting so he could go home and check on them, but still it was so cool that he came! He seemed to enjoy it and we're pretty sure he'll be back next week with the whole fam! Alright well now there isn't anything stopping them all from being baptized! We will hopefully set a date with them this week but we gotta get them all healthy again cause right now their house is quarantined. We are hoping that we can baptize them on the 29th. They are ready- they just don't realize it yet. So as for other investigator news, bad news with Emylie. I really should be careful what I wish for cause it looks like now we will be teaching her as an investigator all the way till January! Her uncle that was going to baptize her got the swine flu and had to miss a week of work and now he can't take any more days off to go to Utah to baptize Emylie, so now the Scarisbricks are staying here for Thanksgiving and then sometime in January will to Utah for the baptism. Sister Davenport and I are pretty frustrated by the whole thing because yes it is important to have the family there and what not for the baptism, but to keep putting it off is putting off blessings! Baptism is a saving ordinance and shouldn't be preformed only when it's convenient!!! Ok my rant is over. Ha ha so anyway that's what's going onwith our investigators. Elsa is also doing really well, we will be teaching her Law of Chastity tonight so we will see how that goes. Kipper and Sandra have both fallen off the face of the earth so they are no longer progressing, sad day. But we have Faith in the Lord and know he will lead us to more people who are prepared.

So this week I had a neat experience with consistency and the power of it. Let me explain, a week ago President challenged me to read my scriptures EVERY day without fail and have morning and nightly prayers. I had been slacking a bit and so this was a promise that I made to President. Well I started doing it and it had an amazing effect on me. I realized that once I made it a goal to do it and told myself that I couldn't miss even one day, I was starting to become consistent and it rocked! The real cool part though is how the spirit whispered to me to enlist some help in my challenge. We were at the Oakleys about two weeks ago and they weren't really progressing, they liked us coming over but they weren't taking steps to act. So as I was sharing my testimony with them I was prompted by the spirit to extend to them the same challeneg that I was working on. I told them I needed their help ind oing it, if they were doing it at the same time as me it would encourage me to keep going. So all three of them (Max was at school)excepted the challenge. The best part is, it's been 2 weeks and they are still doing it!!! They are loving the Book of Mormon and have really in depth questions and they are progressing now! So anyway it was just areally neat experience to me and such a testimony builder of just how important the Book of Mormon really is!
Have a great week and keep the letters coming!

SMILING ALL THE WHILE
Sister Kleisler