Sunday was a VERY interesting testimony meeting. Lets
just say I'm glad some of my investigators werent able to make it that
day. The very first testimony was a less active guy stormed to the front
of the pulpit and yelled at the audience. He explained that his wife had
just walked out of the meeting because she had felt SO shunned by everyone and
didnt feel welcome. He was upset that we werent all being like disciples
of Jesus Christ. There goes the spirit. Gone. Out the
door. Lucky for us, he just stopped there and said
"uhh....amen." Bishop was out of town, but the 2nd councelor
walked the guy off the stage and out the door to talk with him. He later
joined the back row, so I guess he calmed down. We are sooo happy to have
Sister Johnson in our ward because she saved the meeting. After he left,
she stood up and powerfully bore testimony that she LOVED the ward and that
she's sorry someone doesn't feel the way she does about it. After her,
Zina got up and bore testimony and then sang a gospel song to all of us a
cappella. Then this old lady who just moved in to our ward stood up and
annoucned that she was single and that she was very lonely and looking for a
lonely single man to marry. She told all of us she hadnt been sealed in
the temple yet and if anyone wanted to meet her she lived at such and such
apartments. wow.
Deaf Dianne called!!!! She's back from her brain
surgery but she has one more to go through before she heals completely!
So, she will probably finish up the lessons and be baptized in September but
I'm so excited for her to come back. We hadnt heard from her for about a
month!! Some of these investigators are in the very depths of
poverty.
We had one investigator named Barb who lives in a trailer
park. She pays her rent by going to the stadium and collecting plastic cans
to recycle. She calls it "her job" and she "goes to
work" every day. She's a little off her rocker as far as doctrine
goes, she doesnt even believe in the king james bible, yet she thinks that
Nephi is a reincarnated Moses. I will send a picture of her. Barb's
mother who she lives with calls us "Morons" cuz she thinks its
funny. We just laugh at her because she's like 80 and she honestly
believes she's a prophetess. Crazy people, but I love them.
Lynda has been cutting back on her smoking!! She still
wants to be baptized and she has decided that we are the church she wants to go
to! Its such a wonderful feeling when someone finally understands all the
truths we teach them. Dan has been cutting back too and he's doing
well. We had a sisters meeting last monday, too, that was really
fun. I got to see sister Despain before she left. There's only
about 25 sisters here in the mission.
One last story. Zina told us a few weeks back one of
her stories from her crazy past and I want to share it because we were all
crying it was so funny. When Zina was doing drugs, she decided to try
crack for the first time. She sniffed it all and rubbed the remainder of
it all over her gums to get high. Then, she had so much energy that she
ran for miles in the middle of the night without stopping. She climbed up
a scoreboard at the stadium and was sitting at the top when the police arrested
her. The nicknamed her Scoreboard. A few weeks later she was eating
an apple when her two front teeth simply fell out. So she took the two teeth
and SUPERGLUED them back into her head. Needless to say that didnt last
long. Come to find out, superglue destroys your gums so the gums wont
hold the teeth anymore! While she went shopping at the grocery store,
they fell out again randomly and she was on her hands and knees looking for
them on the ground of the store. They had to escort her out because they
thought she was high. She just kept saying "NO! my
teeth!! I have to find my teeth! They're here
somewhere!" The dentist had to scrape off the superglue and give her
a retainer with two fake front teeth in it. So thats what she wears
now. Ohhh drugs. Dont do drugs, kids. 
Sister Teerime can now effectively cross just one of her
eyes. That is all.
Love you all!
Sister Wilson
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