Forehead sweat...a great missionary tool.

Hey Family (:

This week has been pretty great!

We found 3 new investigators, soon to be 8!  It's the Savage family. 

We only met the mom, and 2 daughters last time.  They're actually 

former investigators, and their name just happened to show up on the 

GPS. So we stopped by.  It started with her telling us they decided to 

go to another church.  Then I wiped some sweat off my forehead, and 

she said,  "Oh my! Do ya'll want some water? I can't believe ya'll bike 

out in this heat!"  Forehead sweat...a great missionary tool. 

So we go in. She gets us some water. We sit down at her kitchen table 

with her. We talk about how the missionaries were coming over but then

just stopped.  So, we took the approach of "Man! We feel bad that they 

did that. Can we come over like once a week and keep sharing those 

messages with you?"  She said, "Yeah! Wednesday night at 5:00 would 

be great!"  PERFECT. 

So this Wednesday, we're going to teach them the Restoration, and 

Commit them to BAPTISM!! (:   I'm so excited!! This family is awesome. 

They already read the bible on a regular basis.  They're gonna be baptized! 

So, funny story of the week.  On Tuesday, we were at Gino's for lunch 

after District Meeting, when it started to just down pour.  Water was 

running down the roads.  It was insane! We don't see much of that kind 

of rain in good ole St.Geezy. It's like a regular thing here, apparently. 

Because NO BODY was amazed, except for me. haha. 

Anyway, we got home, changed into dry clothes, took a video of the 

craziness.  And went back out!  It had started to let up a bit. We had 

walked about a mile away from home, when we decided to check our phone.

7 MESSAGES?!  This never happens.  6 of them were from a member in the 

area, telling us that a TORNADO was headed  East of Severna Park. 

WE'RE EAST OF SEVERNA PARK!

But, we looked up at the sky, it looked pretty calm.... We then read our 

7th text message, it was from the Elders/our District Leader.  They were 

wondering if we were getting all of the weather texts, as well. 

So, we decided to casually walk back close to home....nothing happened.

No tornado. NOTHING. All of those panicked texts for nothing! haha. But 

the funny part was, everyone around us was obviously flipping out, while 

here are these 2 girls in skirts, just strolling down the street. They say 

ignorance is bliss (: It's true. haha. 

 ( NOTE FROM MOM:  I told her she wasn't Dorothy and she had no Toto, 

so she better dang well be heading the warnings next time, cause I don't 

want her getting whooshed away.  Her response was, "I'm not in Kansas 

either."  Smarty Pants, don't know where she gets it. :/ )

UM. EXCUSE ME. IN 8 DAYS IT'LL BE MY 6 MONTH MARK. WHAT THE 

HECK?!  I'm not so sure I like that. Granted...after that I have a little over a 

year left. Because I'll be flying home on August 12 or 13..but STILL. That 

means at this moment, I only have 13 months left. ONLY 13 MONTHS. I 

don't know how I feel about this! Like, wow, time has flown by, and only 13 

months till I see my family and friends...but ONLY 13 MONTHS TO SHARE 

THE GOSPEL WITH EVERYONE I SEE. ONLY 13 MONTHS TILL I HAVE 

TO PARTICIPATE IN REAL LIFE AGAIN. WHAT. WHAT. 

Oh, and Mom. You'll be happy to hear this. I'm really thinking about going 

back to school after the mish. For a couple of reasons. 

1. If I don't, Sister Hosner (coach Hosner's sister) will hunt me down. 

2. I know I can do it. Even when I don't want to. 

3. I need to. (: 

That's about it family!!

I LOVE YOU BUNCHES!!

The church is true!

The book is blue!

<3/Your Missionary, Sister Brinkerhoff

 Sister Anderson & Sister Brinkerhoff July 2014

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