My Investigator

I have a friend from school who is investigating the church. Truthfully, when I invited him the first time, I had no intention of converting him.

I will provide a little back-round for my friend. His name is Will. He is seventeen and owns a really ugly white truck with a bumper being held to it by a bungee cord. He goes to Pierce City and is in my grade. He has blond hair and bluish green eyes. He sells soda in the hallways at school and plays lots of mindless video games.

So, he's been to the regular meetings at church for a few Sundays in a row and goes to mutual often. We have even had the missionaries over for F.H.E. to give him discussions a couple of times.

This last discussion was the most interesting one.
It had been a semi-regular day. (all except for the fact that, that was the day that I had gotten sick.) Will and the missionaries showed up and we ate dinner. (Which was very good!)

Then, we proceeded to the livingroom. The missionaries sang us a primary song and then started with their lesson. It was mostly about putting trust in the Lord. The activity was tying a tie around Will's eyes and telling him to fall backward. He had to trust that Elder Horch would be there to catch him.

After a while of reading some scriptures and talking about trust, Elder Shaw told Will that they had a date for Will to be baptized. The room went quiet with shock. At least I was in shock. I looked and him and he seemed also to be in shock.

Elder Shaw and Horch said that they want him to work towards this baptism date (December seventh) and to do better and to read and to pray about it.

Shocked as I was, I tried to be in good spirit about it. It is not a bad thing at all. It is a really exciting thing, but I was worried about what Will thought.

The next day at school, I asked him about this baptism thing. He told me that he is really considering joining our church.

I really hope that he is joining for the right reasons. I want him to be happy and I want him to know the truth. I hope that I have been a good example for Will and I hope that he truly believes it.

I challenge all who read this post to invite a friend or acquaintance to come on Wednesday or to a stake activity or even to church on Sunday. It doesn't take a whole lot of time to just ask someone to go to church...and it is a whole lot less work for the missionaries. (Not that we want them to stop working or anything.)

I Feel Fat!!

I felt like the fattest person that ever walked the earth. "Why?" you might ask me....well....It is all Julia's fault!!

So today Julia took Jordan, Melinda, and I out to eat at a restaurant called the Rain forest Cafe. It is a really good place to eat. I have eaten there before, but it was like five years ago. Anyways, We all got these JYHUGANT (ji-huge-ant) plates of food and ate, and ate, and ate, and ate, etc.

So, after I thought that I was going to die from all of the food, We got to go boxes to put our left- overs in. (Jordan didn't have any left-overs!!) :)

Then......we decided to get dessert. It was a huge volcano-brownie thingy. It was really good. You might wonder how I was able to eat the dessert after having been so stinkin' full. Well, I will tell you. You have different compartments in your stomach... One for the main coarse, one for liquids, one for snack foods, and one for desserts. (My dessert compartment is bigger than the rest of them.)

So we ate that brownie-volcano thingy until it was almost all gone.
And now I feel like the fattest person alive!!

Today

I was sick today. I was up most of the night in the bathroom. I felt so nasty inside and I hurt really bad. I just can't stand that feeling. Once I finally got to sleep, I didn't wake up until 1:00 in the afternoon. I laid in bed for a long time until Julia and I decided to watch our favorite parts from Disney movies. (that is what the Willis girls do when they are sick!) After about three hours of that, the kids came home from school. It was crazy for a little while.......then it got crazier.

This is because we remembered that the missionaries and Will were gonna come over for dinner and F.H.E. So I went and took Tylenol and a shower. Then, I helped to straighten up the house. I still felt a bit sick while I was doing this, but I felt a lot better after I had eaten dinner. F.H.E. was really fun. The missionaries did funny activities and sang us a song. Afterward we had dessert and said goodbye to Will and the missionaries.

Julia told me to blog about my day and so this is what I am doing now.

My day was not that exciting, especially sense I was sick for the majority of the day.

I hope that you enjoyed reading my simple, boring post about my day.