WE ARE STAYING IN CRAIG!!!!!! Yes I am so happy about that! I really hope we stay for awhile. We are just loving it here so much.
I don't have much time to write cause we are getting our hair cut/trimmed today, but I wanted to tell all of you the best story ever that happened this week.
So we have this less active who hasn't been to church since he was baptized. (which was in the 80s or sometime around then.) His name is Bob. He is super hilarious and we love visiting him. He owns a Landscaping/plant buisness. So in the summer time it is really hard to catch him at a good time cause he is super super busy. He agreed to meet with us for 6 weeks though for at least 20 minutes. So sometimes sister Robinson and i will drive to his office and give him a brief lesson. This last week we called him and he couldn't meet with us, so he asked us to come see him the next day. We called him the next day and he tells us to come over to Barclay street. When we get there and jump out of the car we see bob and one of his workers laying sod on this ladies front lawn. He said, "Girls (in a really loud voice) I made you come over here today to show you This (gestering towards the sod) is why i can't meet with you. I am always busy." We were like ok bob, we will call you tomorrow...Disappointed that we couldn't teach him we started driving home for our lunch break. But as we were driving an idea popped into my head. We called bob when we got home and told him that we had a proposition for him. We asked him if we came and helped him lay the sod down would he come to church this sunday. Before i could even get the words all the way out of my mouth bob was saying, "Well, get your little hineys down here!" So we changed as fast as we could and booked it over there. When we got there Bob turns to his work crew and says, "THese ladies are my mormon sister friends and they are going to help us lay sod today with the mindset that they are getting me to come to church on sunday." haha his crew laughed and we got to work. Bob gave us such a hard time the entire time we were there. Saying stuff like, "ok girls now we need to lay this green side up and cover all of the brown stuff." haha he is such a hoot. So we got to work and we finished within 45 minutes. It was awesome.
So saturday afternoon bob called and double check what time church was and said he was planning on being there. WE were SOOO excited. We wanted to suprise our ward mission leader, cause he had no idea what we did haha......... But the unexpected happened......
Saturday night we had a HUGE wind storm and Bob's neighbor had a tree fall onto her house. Bob called our ward mission leader and told him that he couldn't make it to church, because he also is in the tree removal business and he was planning on taking care of this tree for his neighbor. We were so devistated. I really almost cried I was so dissappointed. We prayed really hard that night that there would be some way for bob to still make it to church.
We walked into sacrament meeting and luckily we had a couple other unexpected investigators show up so we were happy. We went into the lobby to talk to an interpretor for one of our deaf less actives and when we came back into the chapel, you will never guess who's bright and wonderful face was in there smiling at us?! Yup you guessed it! It was bob's!!! Oh man I was so happy. We ran up to shake his hand and he said that his competitor out bid him for the tree removal job on his neighbor's house hahahha! We told him that we prayed super hard he would come and he said he would be sending us the bill that we owed him now for not getting the job. We assured him that the Lord was going to pay him back. Aw man it was so wonderful. I love when things like that happen. Well I better get going, but know that I love you guys and Keep being amazing. Live close to the lord and never stop trusting Him!
Love Sister Jones
P.s Picture #1 My adorable cup that my mom made with orange juice in it :)
Picture #2 a really pretty sunset day
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