Hot, Cold, Rain, and Memorial Day.

Well hello!

First of all, let me tell you that last Monday was by FAR the hottest day I've ever experienced. All because of this darn humidity... We went Frisbee golfing yet again, but this time it was HOT. We were all dying. But then the second half of the week took a rather abrupt turn toward the cold. Like, I had to break out my wool socks and blanket during study time. And now it's raining outside.

So, awesome things first: we have two people with baptismal dates! Whoo! There's a family in the ward who were formerly less active, but have recently started coming back to church. We taught the kids last week, and Sister Hall was able to invite two of the sons to baptism. They were so genuine and excited when they responded, "Yes!" that I couldn't help but smile. It's amazing how the gospel is so simple that a 10-year-old (the younger of the two) can understand and want to live it.

Last week we found an older woman who was sitting outside with her dog and talked to her. When she asked who we were (because she can't see that well), she responded, "Missionaries?! I LOVE missionaries!" She basically told us her whole life story (which was incredibly fascinating) and invited us back. We stopped by to see her again, and she told us even more of her life story. She's a very spiritual woman with an incredibly strong faith in Christ, and hopefully we can find a way to teach her the Restoration (and more!), because you know, old people like to talk.

Friday was a funky day for us. For some reason, nothing we planned lasted longer than 15 minutes max. We stopped by a bunch of people, but they were either not there or on their way out. And so it was the whole day. The longest conversation we had was with a man on the phone who was looking for people to help with his house. Even our back up back up plan was to go to the library, and it had only 15 minutes until it closed. Hahah. And when we went to go to a dinner appointment, they weren't there. So we just laughed and went home to make dinner.

Memorial day! What a great day. We went to a Scout fundraiser breakfast for the Bethlehem ward, and they had a dessert auction afterward. There were some awesome things, including a Star Wars Death Star cake that lit up and a Despicable Me cake, in which Bishop Smith got the latter.

Afterwards we were able to go visit a headquarter referral (a referral from Salt Lake/online) and gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon. He told us about a coworker who he found out was Mormon and wanted to learn more because his coworker is so happy. As a missionary, it's always awesome to work with/come across people who want to learn more because of a friend who is a good example. It reminds me of the scripture in 1 Timothy 4:12, "... be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity." We need to always be a good example, no matter what, because we never truly know the effect it can have on someone.

I love you all!

Until next week,

Sister Singleton