Sister Reyne: Oh Them Southern Directions‏

Miracle of the week. Christmas day a member asked if we could go see their friend James. The directions as explained were, "It's on the top of Kelly Hill, and it's a white a grey house with a carport." Well that's just about every other house on 11th! So the next day we start treking. We didn't find a Jerry, but we found two potential investigators, one being Katie a young mom of two boys! Tracting is fun when your approach is, "Do you know a Jerry? Are YOU Jerry?" The next day we found out his name is Jared. So we start treking down Kelly Hill knocking on some of the same doors, but now asking for Jared. And did we find him? No. So what's the miracle? We this last Saturday (you ready for this Southern story) have a plan to go to one of the potential investigators that we found while tracting up Kelly Hill (I mean literally it's up. It really is a hill.) Katie's husband Seth was home working on his truck, getting ready to go hunting. Seth knew the members who referred this "Jerry or James" and we gave him a Book of Mormon and he asked us to come back that night because Katie wouldn't be home until 6:00. We get a text not soon after that that our plan for 6:00 fell through. So we take 5:30 to 6:00 dinner time to study and role play to Sister Downs teddy bear (he's the best listener). We go over to Seth and Katie's around 6:15. We saw Katie inside as we were walking up to the car port but when we got to the door she was gone and no one was answering. We were really confused, so we just planned to go see forever backup. Right when we get there, we feel like we need to go back to Seth and Katie's. It had only been 5 minutes, but we felt no need to be at this other house. So we go back over to Seth and Katie's and they answer! Seth had JUST gotten home from hunting and Katie said she doesn't like answering the door when her husband isn't home and didn't realize who we were. So we ended up teaching them the Restoration and they want us to come back. Later that night we realized how perfectly everything lined up that day for us to meet Seth outside.

We never did find James and the Giant Peach but we found a family to teach who we have been praying to find!

Funny part of the story, one door we knock on this is the directions we get, Jerry lives down the long hill, up two dirt streets, then you'll see a tree stump on the far left, then on the next right of the right you'll see a rock that has been there for 100 years. ... Ok, ok, so it's not quite THAT bad. But Oh them southern directions!

Love y'all!

Sister Reyne

Of course we found donkeys around Christmas time!