Monuments and Melodies: Ice, Ice, Baby.

Bonjour!

It's funny, because I keep trying to start this email but I can't quite think of what happened this week. Let me flip through my planner (which is the only way I can remember things)...

Monday we got snowed in all day. But you know this, because I told you this last week. Tuesday was great! A huge blessing was that all of our appointments held, which is quite rare. Wednesday was the opposite. All of our appointments cancelled because of the ice. The roads were quite terrible from the snow storm on Monday. We were out driving for a little bit, but after a while we all felt like it was a bad idea. We ended up stopping at Sister Relitz's house (the Relief Society president) and helped her stuff bears she sewed for the pregnant women in the ward. Thursday was pretty great though! (I'm just noticing a pattern in the days-- one good, one not as good, one good, etc.) The best part, though? We were finally able to meet Kelly!

So, background info on Kelly: for some reason, she has been drawn to the Church for quite some time. Two months ago she put her name in as a referral on mormon.org, but our system has been down for a while. So she waited for two months, expecting missionaries, but none came. Then one day (and I'm not clear on the details), either she told her friend who is in the services in Saudi Arabia who then called our mission office or our mission office just straight up called her, but whoever was working in our mission office said that she would get a Book of Mormon that night. So he called the Whitehall Sisters and told them that no matter what, bring this woman a Book of Mormon that night! They met with Kelly, and when they gave her the Book of Mormon, she started crying because she wanted it so bad.

Well, back up a day when we at the library on Facebook. The Allentown Spanish elders had gotten a headquarter referral that didn't sound Spanish at all, so they gave the info to Sister Wiehl. Well, the next day before district meeting the Whitehall Sisters gave us Kelly's info because it turns out she was in our area. And guess what? Both referrals were the same address.

So back to the main story: we've been trying to meet with her since last week, but all forces seem to not want us there. So when we finally met with her, we were thrilled! Kelly is amazing and super ready to live the gospel! However, she is moving to Utah... in like three weeks. So we're working with her to prep her for baptism so that when she moves she's ready! Meeting Kelly was a testimony to me, once again, that the Lord really does prepare people to hear His message.

The rest of the week went really well. We saw Katherine a couple of times, who is super excited for her upcoming baptism! We were also able to see Kelly again, even though it started snowing last night (on top of the already solid ice roads).

So yeah! My week was pretty fantastic. Oh yeah, I gave a talk in Sacrament meeting yesterday.

Love,
Sister Sarah Singleton

P.S....

Sorry I keep forgetting things and sending separate emails, but this is just too good to skip.

So we were trying to stop by a headquarter referral Saturday night. We were having a hard time finding a parking spot, but there was an open gap in front of this person's house. We figured it would work for just a minute, so Sister Wilson pulled up. It didn't take long for us to realize that our car was stuck. We tried to back out and move, but it was too late. We were on a solid sheet of ice. Sister Wiehl and I were trying to push the car out, but we could barely get any traction on the ice. So we had to call a member to come and help us. We were contemplating who to call and then we were like, "the Spanogles! They have a bunch of boys!" So we did, haha.

Brother Spanogle, John, and Wes helped us dig out the car. Turns out we high centered it on a pile of ice. So they spent 40 minutes chipping away at the ice while we tried pathetically to help. The best part? We had unknowingly parked in a handicap parking spot...