Boy, I haven't kept up with posting this month. I don't know where time goes. Seems like the month started and is almost over already. I'm just going to try to do a summary of the month.
We are still meeting with Jim & Juanita Patrick. We have met with them several times this month. Just this last Tuesday night (the 25th) we had dinner with them and finally had a really good gospel centered discussion with them. At one point I asked Jim what he thought of what we had been talking about and he said he believed it was all true. Most of the discussion centered around the Plan of Salvation and how it gives our lives meaning and direction. Maybe someday we will find out what the core problem is with him that keeps him from joining The Church.
Last month I mentioned meeting Jan & Jim Maupin. We haven't been able to get together again with them. She's busy preparing for the wedding coming up next month and now that sports are starting up they are also busy going to games of their grandchildren. We'll not give up on meeting with them again though.
On the 30th of March we met Mary Jane Fulp. She and her husband joined the church when their children were small and they are all now grown and off with families of their own. She said about 12 years ago her husband, Jack, was hurt very deeply at church and quit going. A couple of years later he joined the Jehovah's Witnesses!! Wow. I said that it must be hard to have any religious conversations. She said they do not talk about religion. I can't imagine what that would be like.
She lost her job the first of Feb. and has been struggling with health issues that she can't afford to get her prescriptions for. I let the Bishop and RS Pres. know about this.
Just before the Easter breakfast this month, on the 15th, we took her an invitation to come. She and her foster son came and they have been coming to church ever since. Jack actually brings them to church and then a neighbor of her's brings them home.
We met with her again last night, the 27th, and had a good visit. I had been impressed to share with her that I felt if she keeps coming to church and gets back to the temple, Jack will come back. She said I'm not the only one who has told her that. He actually came and joined us for about the last 10 min. of our visit. I talked to her about my search for someone who can help me with my business and she would like to have the chance to see if she could do it. Next week she is going to go with me to see what she thinks.
She told us that Relief Society has been really good visiting her but she wished her home teacher would be more regular. Sounds like she gets home teachers off and on so I passed that information on to the Bishop.
I don't remember when we met Felicia Barkell and I can't find that I've written about them so will update now. She and her husband, Michael, moved into the ward last September and they've been at church maybe a couple of times since. He works nights for Fred Meyer and she is a special ed teacher, although she's planning on making a change in what she does this summer. She is actually from Battle Ground, WA and her family knows my cousins, the Hokansons. Small world!
We got to meet Michael on the 11th of this month. They are a nice couple and just need to make the effort to get to church. They both know they need to come and he is hoping that he will have a change in his shift before long that will be helpful.
This last week I've had text three messages from Felicia asking for help with a couple of things. It's nice to know she feels comfortable in contacting me. We'd sure like to see them coming to church.
On the 18th we met Nena Cummings and Sharon May. The Bishop had ask us to visit Nena and we just dropped by with a loaf of banana bread. She was friendly and seemed happy to meet us but we haven't been able to meet with her again, although I've talked to her. She gave us her correct cell number so that's encouraging. She's just busy when we've tried to meet with her. Since our visit was relatively short we looked on our list to see who else might live in the same neighborhood and found the May family.
Sharon was the only one home. Her husband, Andrew, is a truck driver and is gone a lot. They were going on a cruise this week and after they get home he is planning on changing jobs so that he will be home nearly every night. We asked if we could come back and visit when he was home and she said sure. She was very friendly, likes to talk and was happy to share with us their story.
Andrew's family owns the May Family Ranch in northern Idaho where they host family reunions and any other kind of gathering. They have a large family and all are very active in church except Andrew and one other sibling. She said when they moving into the ward he told the Bishop they were bringing their family to church to set a good example. Two days later someone showed up asking if he would accept a calling and he hasn't been back to church since. I hope that we will get to meet him and find out why he had so little desire to be a part of the church.
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