Sister Ward, Sister Morales and I have been rocking the time the three of us have together since we know for a fact next transfer they'll only be two Sister's serving in the Pontiac area. Honestly it makes me miss my Petty sisters a little bit sometimes. So a shout-out to them and my love for them and the rest of the Petty clan! And anyone reading this really. 😄
We tract a lot and the heat is killer with the high humidity, but we have a car so we only stay out for so long so that's a huge blessing. It's hilarous when others smugly say we haven't seen anything yet and I get to say back to them that I've danced in a pioneer dress in the middle of the day in July onstage with my family in the Nauvoo Pageant so I can deal with this. I haven't seen more shirtless old men in my life and would rather do without.
This week we've been going on the outskirts of our area- from top bottom takes about an hour to drive. It's been nice driving and seeing the beautiful country. We found a tentive new investigator named Carla in one of the small towns consisting of a population of 300. She's a sweet married middle aged women that has a strong faith of her own but is interested on learning more on what we share for her own information, which is still exciting.
As for the four investigators we got a while back- one has lost interest, but hey, we'll still try again later with her. So that leaves Beth, Bob, and Lacey.
We met Beth as we were about to knock on her neighbors door. The huge family was outside unloading a van from a church camping trip. They have a family of 9 and a strong Christian faith. They are a great family. Beth is the Mom and We talked to her about the Book of Mormon and missionary work. She was super nice and were able to get her info.
This story is a little over due since this happened on June 20th. We saw God's hand in our missionary work through finding Lacey. We had prayed for an inspired street to tract one day. We all chose together a street we felt good about. We went door to door and no one was interested, but we knew there was someone on this street ready for the gospel. At the very last house we saw a women in the drive-way cleaning out her car and offered some help and asked if she needed any kind of service. She was pleasantly surpised and said "Wait, do you just go up to people and ask if they want service!?" We nodded in agreement and then explained how we were missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. We found out her name was Lacey and shortly after we started talking her 8-year old daughter came out from the house. We shared a video to the both of them saying how through Christ we can have peace and happiness. We also introduced the Book of Mormon to her and she was very accepting of it and curious. She shared how right now in her life she is looking for positive change having moved here from another state and wanting the best for her daughter. She said how it might be a sign from God that we found her and was very excited. She said if we had shown up even five minutes earlier or later she wouldn't have been there.
It didn't end there though! We got her address which was someplace else and when we went by we found out she had just moved again! We only had her phone number and whenever we called there was no answer. A week later we called again and she answered very excited saying how she'd been waiting from a call from us and that she had lost our info and how her phone wasn't working for a while. She said how she's been eager to learn more and how talking with us the other day really helped her out with her faith despite all the things that had been going on and even then as we were talking on the phone with her.
I know that the Lord guided us to Lacey not only to be at the right place at the right time that day, but both at her times of need. The Lord is aware of each and everyone of us and loves us so much. As missionaries we've been blessed to really be at the fore-front of witnessing his outreach to each of his children when we follow His guiding hand and know that you do and can too. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
-Sister Kate Petty
P.S: Happy 4th of July!
I'll write about Bob next time! Here's some photos of how our planning actually goes.
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