Hi
Everybody,
Our internet has been down again. We just
got it serviced again and will see how long it lasts this time.
The past 10 days have been interesting;
Rosina, Shaniqua, and Sister Horton have all dumped us. They won’t pick up their phone when we call, and
we go to Rosina’s house and all the men that are laying there watching TV say
she is upstairs asleep. I’m sure they
will need us when they have to have a ride or some more food. I don’t mean to sound like sour grapes but we
are starting to find out how they play their games. I doubt Pres. Burno is going to fall for it
much longer.
The man (Richard) we helped move into his
apt. (up 3 flights of stairs with a large
u-haul full of furniture etc.) has
been calling Karl 5 or more times a day.
First he says he doesn’t have to go to church, he has heard all of it
already. He came to the building and asked Karl if he would take him to the store
and he was busy with tithing and fast offerings right after church. Anyway,
this ticked him off and he texted back and said he hated the church and Karl
and would never come again or didn’t want us to try to contact him. A few hours later he texted back and said he
was sorry and wanted us to be his friend.
This has been going on now for three days. First he won’t ever talk to
us, then he love us. When we got in
touch with someone from his last place they said he was bipolar. We have so
many here that are suffering. Wish we
knew how to help. This is when we need Kristine and her counseling degree to
help us!
Life stays interesting. Everyday there is
someone in dire need. How do you help them when they don’t know how to help
themselves? Over 60% of the branch has
so many mental challenges, all we can do is love them and try to help them out
of many messes they get themselves into.
We were out to the Mission Office two times
last week and both times we got to watch the new movie that is out, “Meet the
Mormons”. It is done very well, and if you
get a chance to see it make sure you do.
It would be nice to take some in-actives or nonmembers to. We are all so blessed to belong to a church
that is right on top of all the technology. Every avenue they can take to bring
the gospel to the world, how very grateful we all should be. Sometimes I feel I’ve taken my wonderful
heritage and privileges for granted. With the sad things we have seen back here, we
are very humbled and thankful for all the wonderful blessings we have been
blessed with!
We are getting more rain today but the
humidity is right up there with the rain.
We still use our coolers and are very thankful for them. The vegetation
back here is always so lush. When I think of Utah not having enough water it
makes me wonder why it can’t be more equal. Heavenly Father knows and we have
to trust in what he does.
We send our LOVE to all of you, our eyes have
been so opened back here, we all have so much. Our material needs have been met
all our lives. Let’s all offer a prayer
of gratitude today and tell Heavenly Father how thankful we are for our
wonderful lives and the conditions we have always had. May He continue to bless all of you. We are
most grateful for this experience and the way our eyes have been opened to our
many, many blessings. Each one of you
are part of those blessings. Keep doing
well, stay healthy and be appreciative for all of our circumstances.
Got ahold of
Rosina finally. Her grandson has a free school pass to go roller-skating, but
needed $4 for skate rental. Her friend didn’t have any money but she rounded up
a couple of dollars from someone else and then got two from us. She then
shouted “praise the Lord, and that the Lord provides”, and asked us if we would
take him to the rink, several miles away, which, we did. I guess we will take
her Friday to get birth certificates and ID for her brother so she can get some
Gov. Housing before she gets thrown out again, and then, to get her dentures
from the dentist before he says He is going to throw them away.
We go to New
Jersey tomorrow to get food orders for three members, then (we made up with
Richard, our bipolar), we promised him we would take him to the store to get
groceries. I hope he has some money or we will have to pay for it.
Sister
Horton must still be hearing voices, since she won’t answer her phone. I left
her a message to see if she wanted a blessing, but haven’t heard back. The
voices tell her to jump off a building, or the like, and tells her not to come
to church.
Elder Seeley
asked us if we have been shot at yet, and we said no. He said that he had, and
it hit his backpack, so he just kept running. The Elders have a potential
baptism lined up, but since their contact is on probation, they need to get
permission from the Mission President before they can baptize him. They also
have a couple of others, so maybe we will get some more converts before too
long!
Luzi, who
has been baptized, needs to have it redone, since there is not record of it anywhere
in the Church. We are finding a few of these. I guess no one bothered to have
it recorded, so it has to be done over. One daughter of a member was baptized
at age seven, and no one caught it, but since they are inactive, we are having
a hard time getting it done again. Anyway the work goes on in the Frankford
Branch.
Love Ya All.
Elder and Sister Armstrong.
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