Adventures of a Mississippi Miss: Rain Rain, Go Away! We've Got Lots of Souls to Save!

Some time ago, Sister Olson (our Mission President's wife) challenged us to contact 20 new people every day- no matter what. Even if we had church all day, or lived out in the middle of nowhere, we were to contact those 20 people. Sister Lamb and I sort of tried to do it, but in all honesty I sort of let that one slip away from me. This week our district leader (my pal, Elder Houston, from Ocean Springs) re-committed us to that challenge and offered a prize for the companionship who could reach 20 first. Well, Sister Porter and I are competitive souls and we like to win. So naturally we set out to do just that, and Saturday was our day.

We started in the morning by going to a festival on Main Street, and it was SO hot. I had sweat dripping down my back and it was disgusting. But we met some cool people and got 2 new investigators last night because of it! (We also saw Dan the banjo man, which was awkward because he dropped us....)

Then we went to visit Austin and his brother Noah. We are teaching Noah, and Austin is a recent convert. But as we got there, it POURED rain on us. And we literally just stood under a tree for like 20 minutes before Noah asked if we wanted to go inside. At which point, it didn't really matter anymore, because we were literally soaked.

Later in the day, we tracted a lot. We prayed to find people who would be home, and we did! We met Gloria who I have high hopes for, and some others who were much less kind, but we still gave it our best efforts.

By 6:00, we had our 20! And by the end of the day, we had contacted 22! We were wet, tired, and looked like hobos, BUT we did it!!! And it sure felt good to talk to and teach so many people.

Ricky had his baptismal interview on Saturday, and he is good to go for this upcoming Saturday! He's nervous, but knows it's a good thing. He has a lot of faith, and I love that guy. It's going to be a good baptism!! We're so excited for him, and I'm grateful that Sister Fonua and Sister Porter were diligent missionaries and started talking to him.

We had Stake Conference yesterday in Clinton. So it's about an hour drive for us and it was kind of crazy because almost no one here drives and we have a very limited number of members. So Sister Porter and I sure had our faith tested as we tried all Saturday night and Sunday morning to arrange a way to get Ricky and Noah to church. I think we prayed about a gazillion times in the process, but after a thousand phone calls, and 3 different drivers, we finally all made it to church. It was a sigh of relief to finally sit down, and you better believe I said many prayers of gratitude for how things worked out. All of that stress was worth it though, because things were shared that helped both Ricky and Noah. But you know something? The whole time I really just felt like it would all work out, and it did. Just another testament to me that this is Heavenly Father's work.