Pittsburgh Mission Memoirs

It's always amazing when weeks like this happen, when everything seems to be so mundane, so ordinary. We taught lessons, we found some interesting people, that sort of thing. But the weekend was something spectacular. First off, this week we're splitting our area. Sister missionaries...

Last week, I mentioned a family that we've been teaching. Well, a semi-family. They consist of Rene and Canie (they're together), and Rose and Donald (they're together). They're all living in an apartment together and we've been teaching Rene, Canie, and Rose, and they've been loving it. To me, it seems like one of those situations of someone finding something they've been looking...

I got a call this week from the Referral Secretary. She's in charge of letting us know about people in our area who called Salt Lake City to learn more about the church. This time, she said she had an odd referral. It was for a lady who was investigating the church online with a missionary on Facebook, and had progressed to the point where she has a baptism date... for two weeks...

We had a bit of excitement this week. We were out on foot, looking for the home of a less-active member who the Bishop wanted us to go and visit. We went back and forth, trying to find it, but the house numbers seemed to jump right when we came to where the house we were looking for...

What a week. All things considered, it's been one of the best I've had in a long time. For some reason, the Lord chose to bless us in the very best ways.  Last Monday, we went shopping and my companion was very carefully choosing between which honey he should purchase. A gentleman who was selecting pop-tarts overheard us and made a comment which just launched us into a conversation...