The Rockwood Family: WEDNESDAYS

Friday, January 22, 2010

WEDNESDAYS

I Love Wednesdays!

Most people would probably list Saturday as their favorite day of the week. I also enjoy Saturdays because it is a break from the work week and time to catch up at home. Or Sunday because we attend church and rest from the ordinary. But Wednesday is the day we get an email from Daren. He is serving a mission in Richmond, Virginia. Currently he is in the small town of Franklin in Southern Virginia. He is busy and enjoys the work. Here is an excerpt from his latest letter.

"This week has been packed full of some exciting days. For the most part there hasn't been too many new things, but we were able to teach a lot of good lessons. First of all we came across someone who had started taking the missionary discussions but then moved and lost contact with the missionaries. His name is Bobby Brown and wow can the old man move.... We eventually were able to share the plan of salvation with him and that really got him thinking because he thought after we died there was no more learning, but we showed him that the Bible and Book of Mormon say otherwise. It was really powerful.

We were also able to teach Pat. She is still strugglin with smoking but she is slowly starting to get off of those. She had talked about getting some suckers to suck on whenever she felt the urge to smoke but couldn't find any little dum-dums. So, we went to Walmart and got her some. Hopefully they will help.
Another exciting lesson we had was with Chris Townes. We have been working with her and the lessons with her are usually pretty interesting. She is extremely paranoid.... Despite all that we were able to have a spiritual lesson with her. We based it off of Alma 32:28-30, 33 and pointed out that what she felt whenever we came over was the spirit. We then committed her to baptism. We have a lot of things to help her with but through prayer and through dilligence on her part, she will be ready."