1/26/15 THIS. WEEK. HAS. BEEN. AWESOME.

THIS. WEEK. HAS. BEEN. AWESOME. 

We now have 2 investigators!

Jude and his family.

And Viola!

We are going to Jude's tonight at 6:30.  We'll be reteaching the 

Holy Ghost, and then going into the Restoration.  We are so 

excited! We expect it to go very well!

Viola, is the wife a returning less active member, John.  They are 

amazing! John is actually from Saint George, and he plays guitar.

Obviously, we bonded.  Viola is from Albania, which is a 

communist country, therefore, no Christianity.  When her family 

settled in America, they ended up in Boise, Idaho. Of all places, 

right? She would always see Mormons, and wonder what the heck 

we were all about, but no one reached out to her.  She finally came 

out east for school, and met John, who moved out here for a job, 

at a BBQ. When she found out he was LDS, she asked a ton of 

questions.  Brother Feagin, is their Home Teacher, and one of the 

first things she said to him was  "What's the Priesthood? And who 

is Joseph Smith?" UM. That like...doesn't happen.

This all was about a year ago, but with Viola not having a Christian

background, and John, at the time, not wanting anything to do with 

the church, it was a slow process. WELL. Now, we fast forward to 

yesterday.  Brother Feagin called us at about 8:30pm, telling us that

he went Home Teaching to them, and that John had said that his 

goals for 2015 were to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood, to be 

Endowed, and be sealed!   UM...That like...doesn't happen.

So, as you can imagine, we were a little more than ecstatic when 

we hung up the phone. Currenlty, we're trying to set up a time to 

go over, we might give up on that, and just show up! haha.  The 

work is progressing in the Columbia 2nd ward! Thank you all for 

your prayers. Prayers work. The church is true! 

A few funny moments this week.. 

We were wanting to make brownies and rice crispy treats for 

Jude and his family. The brownies turned out wonderful, but the 

rice crispies...Well. Neither of us have ever made rice crispies...

So to sum it up, there was a lot of guess work, and me trying to 

channel in to Grandpa Tanner, because he made the best rice 

crispies! No such luck...it ended up tasting like a stick of butter. 

NOTE: You melt the butter IN the marshmallows. NOT separate. 

Lesson learned. 

2nd funny...

So, we live close to an airport..the BWI to be specific, therefore we 

see a lot of airplanes. A couple of nights ago, we're sitting in the 

car, I'm playing around on the GPS, and Sister Haupt is looking up 

at the sky, and then says, "Why do airplanes have headlights, anyway?"

I just started to laugh...Because what do you say to that? Um..so they 

don't run into other airplanes? hahaha. We asked Elder Howells, he 

said the same thing. haha. It still remains a mystery as to why

airplanes have headlights. 

Thank you again, for all of your prayers!  I love you all, so much!

Always remember that the words of Christ will tell you all answers!

Have a great week!

<3/Sister Casidee Ann Brinkerhoff

Photo 1: Sister Haupt and Sister Brinkerhoff

Photo 2: Sharing a car is the absolute best!....not. But it does make Preparation Day fun..haha. 

Driver:Elder Mason, Passenger:Elder Howells, Me and Sister Haupt in back (:

Photo 3:Elder Howells thinks he's pretty funny......

Photo 4,5, 6, 7: Beginning of Snow day #2..aka Today. We almost were snowed in for our Preparation day..

Photo 8 :  Snow day!