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| Civil War Era Ironworks |
As our assignment now is to help with missionary housing we have the opportunity to drive more around the northern half of Alabama. We are in the process of opening two apartments in the Huntsville area and one in Demopolis, the distance between them being about about 200 miles.
Although the list of things needed is rather extensive, as much as possible we try to find and use items that are portable. Most everything to furnish an apartment for two missionaries will fit in the back of a pickup truck. These were destined a week ago for an apartment in Hueytown (hometown of the Alabama Gang).
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| Furnishings for one apartment. |
Needless to say, a measure of the church's commitment to missionary work is demonstrated in the effort it takes to procure, furnish and maintain missionary housing.
On our way back from Demopolis this past week we saw a sign for the Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park and went to see what is there. The original ironworks date from before the Civil War and this site was a major producer of iron during the war. It is a beautiful park with a big campground and a lot of historical buildings. Here are more pictures:
It's hard to believe that we have now passed our six month mark. If the next six are like the previous six we have absolutely no idea what to expect.
More Mission Miracles:
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We were former contacting a little bit ago, we called someone that hadn't been taught and scheduled to call to share a quick message. She gave us her cell phone number to call because we had apparently called her home phone but we didn’t think much of it. Anyway, we call for our spiritual thought, and then we got to talking about the love of God. And she out of nowhere says that she’s always loved missionaries calling her, because she was baptized when she was 19 into our church. That was like 40 years ago. We had no idea. But she said that she is so happy we called, and that the phone number we called the first time she never answers, but she did when we called because she felt something tell her to. Isn’t that awesome? That's what she said straight to us. We're gonna help her find her baptismal record. I love being a missionary.
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And then, we had another miracle......
We had 16 scheduled lessons on Saturday. We had a lesson scheduled for every hour of the day. Unfortunately a few fell through, but we have been speechless and in awe at how much we have been blessed.
We had 16 scheduled lessons on Saturday. We had a lesson scheduled for every hour of the day. Unfortunately a few fell through, but we have been speechless and in awe at how much we have been blessed.
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Clay update: Yesterday morning we taught him the word of wisdom and we were NERVOUS. He has quite a few habits that don't see eye-to-eye with the word of wisdom and we weren't sure what he would think of this commandment. Nevertheless, we were so full of faith because he KNOWS the Book of Mormon is true and he KNOWS that Joseph Smith, Russell M. Nelson, and everyone in between are Prophets of God. So we started going over the word of wisdom pamphlet with him. After we read the first page he said, "Sisters, this is just another confirmation to me that I'm on the right path. Last night I decided that I need to clean up my habits so I resolved to quit smoking and I dumped out all my alcohol. As far as coffee, I can go without that just fine." WHAT A MIRACLE. Clay then asked us for another Book of Mormon (again) because he's given away the last 5 that we've given him to his friends and family. He told us that his wife and one of their friends are going to start reading the Book of Mormon and that they'll soon be ready to meet with us!
