Manna from Heaven

Hey Hey!

Well. This week hasn't been too shabby!

Back on Tuesday, we taught Doris again.  Towards the beginning 

of the lesson she said that she's wasn't sure about all of this, and 

that she isn't a fan of change. But, by the end she was excited for 

us to come back!  We're excited, too. (:

Oh! And a way cool miracle. I think that same night, we were street 

contacting before dinner, and we saw this little old lady pushing her 

trash out to the road. She was using a cane, so perfect opportunity 

to serve! So, we go trompin' through the bushes and trees in to her 

drive way,  she looks behind her to see us emerging from the woods.

We wave enthusiastically and offer to help. She declined our offer, but 

we asked if we could leave her with a card from our church. She asked

what church, so we explained. She said, "Oh! I would love to have a 

card from the Mormons!" Her name is Susan, and turns out she and 

her sister were baptized back in the 70's! Sweet, huh? We invited her 

to church, and asked if we could come back some time next week.

She was delighted to have us come back!  She's moving, too...so she 

said we could come help pack! We're stoked. We found a long lost 

member! I love it when that happens. 

A couple of days later, we went over to Sister Tripplett's house with 

Sister Cullen to help get things together, and to decorate for 

CHRISTMAAAAAAASSSSS!!!  Holy smokes, that got me so excited! 

I can't wait for Christmas. 

Now, yesterday...AWESOME day. 

We had so many lessons, found Tiara, talked to every single person 

we saw. We were on a high!  We were a little early for our dinner 

appointment, so we were walking around trying to meet people, 

when on our way back we saw a sticky note on our car.  I ran over

to get it, and it said, "Your plates have been reported to the police 

department for you going too fast through the neighborhood. 

You almost hit my son." UHM, WHAT? We can't even speed due to 

Tiwi! (annoying computer that yells at you) And there weren't any 

kids in the road.  So, we get in the car to speculate. 

We concluded that either whoever wrote the note had the wrong 

car, or there was someone who doesn't like mormons.  We went 

into dinner and forgot about it. Afterwards, we came out and it 

dawned on me, "Hey, what if it was the Elders who wrote the note, 

as a joke?"  After speculating that idea for a minute, we decided 

that they weren't that immature, they wouldn't do that. We then get 

a text from Sister Cullen saying, "Hey, the Elders told me to tell you 

it was them, and they're sorry?" Oh hohoho. So, we came up with a 

plan.  We were going to get them back.  We called them and told 

them that we had called President, and he said that we couldn't 

drive our car until he could call the Police Department to get it all 

situated.  We thought we were so clever. They didn't even buy it!

So, now, we're in the works of figuring something out to get them 

back.  Because, wo, that wasn't funny! Okay, it was....but we were 

really stressed out about it! hahahaha.

Oh! I almost forgot. Rewind to Saturday night.

We had come home for dinner. I was wondering what I could do, 

because I was out of food and only had 4 bucks left on my Agency 

Card. I picked up the package and jokingly said, "Hey, maybe my 

family sent me food!"  I opened the box, and lo and behold!

MANNA FROM HEAVEN! 4 loaves of dad's homemade bread! 

I cried. I won't deny it.  I'm so thankful family! What would I do 

without ya'll. We kept 1 loaf, and gave the other 3 to our next 

door neighbor, the Cullen Clan, and the Durrants. Thank you so 

much! Oh dad, everyone says your bread is amazing.  Sister Cullen 

has been raving about it ever since. haha.  She wants the recipe, 

I told her it's a family secret..of course knowing that you probably 

haven't written it down or anything..haha. (:

I love you family!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

<3/Sister Casidee Ann Brinkerhoff