The counselors from the Elder’s Quorum and Relief Society are asked to attend the huddles of either family history or meet with the missionaries. As both RS counselors have been involved with another class (which happens during the time of the huddle meetings) the president and I have filled in for the last three weeks or so. And then Richard was called to assist in the missionary program (which he has pretty much been doing anyway).
In our last huddle the missionaries
presented a list of some inactive members they had contacted and told us that
each had expressed interest in returning to the fold. Each of us were assigned a few names from the
list. Richard felt impressed to bring goodies
– cupcakes or cookies. We settled on
chocolate chip cookies and Richard and I visited two households yesterday.
The first house we drove to was in the
country. 50 Acres. Nice couple.
They used to raise llamas but have only two left. The next house was much closer to
civilization and with the most awesome view.
That was a totally unexpected chain of events.
When we first arrived the member seemed put
off and indicated that she was in a meeting and “didn’t have time for us” which
was okay – we had just showed up without an appointment but did wish to leave
the cookies. At that she asked, “Are you
from the church?”
She then asked if we could sit for ten minutes
while she finished her meeting. We told
her we could come back but were invited in and talked with her husband briefly
until she returned. She gave us a tour
of her house. We were awed. I took a couple of pictures of the view –
which Jaime and I had both seen but from the opposite angle. I couldn’t believe that I was actually in the
house that I had seen several times from the outside.
I didn’t look at the clock before we
arrived but would guess our visit was at least an hour. We have two more visits to make but needed to
come home to eat. Our son called Richard
with a job assignment – which is generally completed in less than 24
hours. We are blessed that we will be
getting some extra income.
