The Power of Slim Jims

Hey Y'all!

Another great week in Elkins WV! Joyce has been continuing to prepare for her baptism which is still scheduled for this Saturday!! She had a great time at church yesterday and even found out one of her close friends is a member! Her baptismal interview is tonight and we're praying everything continues to go as planned! We are so excited for her and I'm so glad the Lord kept me in Elkins for another transfer so I could be here for her:)

Emailing today with our matching braids

We started teaching one of our members parents and sister last week and they are so awesome! We came back after our first visit and the sister gave us a play by play of like the first 15 chapters of the Book of Mormon! They are so sincere it's been so great getting to teach them. We committed them to pray about baptism during our last visit this week so we're hoping to help them take this next step soon! And then when we met with them on Tuesday the sister's daughter and her daughter's husband joined in and we are now teaching them as well! It's been an interesting experience teaching that many people at once but thank goodness we don't have to do it without the Lord's help!

Relief Society Birthday Party with Joyce and Sister Whipple

We met with a less active member on Saturday night and he had just gotten 5 cans of beer from the store because he said that he was stressed. We have been working with him for a long time trying to break him of this habit. After a pretty intense lesson we told him that he could either give the beer to us or pour it down the sink. Miraculously, he got up and cracked a can open and started to dump it out. We could tell that it was really hard for him and he almost took a sip as he was pouring it out but Sister Neilson told him that for every one he could pour out without sipping he could have two of her slim jims (Sister Neilson always has like 20 slim jims in her bag). He looked at them and took the challenge and when we left he had 10 of them. 

Thank you to everyone for all of the emails and letters! I love hearing from all of you! Just a reminder that the new mission office address is:

WVCM

839 Chestnut Street
South Charleston, WV 25309

Love you all! Have a great week!

Sister de la Cruz