Hey family!
Thanks so much for your emails and letters. I know I sound like a broken record, but they really do mean a lot to me. I'm so glad to hear youth conference was such a great experience. We truly do have an amazing ward. Send my love to them!
We had a great week! Like I mentioned, we've had to basically start over with finding investigators, and we have had some great success. We do not have any new investigators yet, but we've found around ten solid potential investigators we are planning to follow up with. And you know how we found them? Yep, tracting. All day every day. I can't say that I enjoy tracting, but I am getting better at it! Dad, thanks for the tracting advice...if I'm ever feeling bold enough to bust out a primary song, I'll do it. We have appointments scheduled with a couple new people this week, so hopefully they follow through and we can continue teaching them! One of them, an older guy named Sam, we are very excited about. We asked him what he knew about the Mormon church, and said he knew that we were big into genealogy. Turns out Sam loves family history, and he ended up telling us some stories about his ancestors. He told us he's been trying to find more information about his grandpa, but for some reason has been unable to do so. And you know what we said?
"We actually have family history specialists at our church that could help you out. Could we come over some time with a specialist to help you find your grandpa?"
Sam happily agreed, and now we have an appointment with him on Wednesday! We received pass-a-long cards for family history a few weeks ago, and I have since been wanting to implement family history in our finding. It was family history that initially attracted Barbara to the church, so I know it can work! I was excited that we were able to use this approach with Sam, and we hope to be able to extend an invitation to teach him why family history/families are so important. Pray that it goes well! He seems like a really awesome guy, and I hope we can start teaching him. While tracting we also met another guy named Paul who has started reading the Book of Mormon. He is a younger guy who is in a rock band, and he wants to meet with us when he gets back from being on tour. (His band is called, "The Truth." You should look it up) Haha not gonna lie, we were a little surprised by his interest. I still wonder if he's showing interest just because we're a couple young girls, but I'm hoping for the best! All in all, Heavenly Father is blessing us for our efforts. We have done more walking and more tracting this week than any other, and it feels good! I love feeling like I'm giving the Lord my best effort. Speaking of walking, there is a possibility we may be getting a car...I'll let you know what happens!
The greatest thing happened this past week. The other day, we were driving home from getting dinner with our friend Kim, and she happened to miss the exit we normally get off at to go home. Guess what the next exit was?! DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH! I would have felt guilty since we were out of our area...but it was totally out of our control :) We drove through the city for a few minutes, and I got to see the Pirates stadium (there was a game going on), Steelers stadium, and a lot of other cool things. The city is absolutely incredible. In just the few minutes I was there, I completely fell in love with it. The bridges, the lights, the buildings...I would love to serve there. If not, you guys should pick me up out here so we can go explore. Anyway, it made my night! I'll send some pictures! Hope the week goes well for "yins" (That's a Pennsylvania term for "you all"). Love you!
Love,
Sister Denney
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