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Week 15

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  Hello Everyone! Time is going soooooo quickly! It seems April started a couple of days ago and now it's nearly over! We have been doing a lot of visiting still.  We haven't yet made it to all of the inactive people in our branch! Seventy percent are inactive. We have been going almost every day to visit a member who is in the hospital.  She is in her 80"s and is just skin and bones.  Everytime we go there she perks up and gets a smile on her face. She is such a sweet woman but hasn't been active in the church for a long time. We try to leave a message with her everytime we visit. I don't think she understands some of what we say.  She does say that she loves Jesus and that's always good! We went to Topeka for Stake Conference on Saturday. We left our house about 10 AM.We visited a couple of sisters on our way. We always try to visit people on our way to or from Topeka because our boundaries are so big! When we got to Topeke we had to r...

Week 11-14

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  Hi Everyone! I've been busy! It seems that the days go so fast. We are still visiting inactives and painting. It seems there is a never ending list of people to visit and painting to do. We had invited eight ladies from our branch to watch conference with us. Most were active but we also invited a friend and a couple of not so active sisters.  We figured the group of ladies we invited would probably not watch conference unless they were invited somewhere to watch it. Out of the eight ladies we invited, five actually came.  We figured that was a pretty good turnout!. We had made some sandwiches and had lots of cheese and crackers etc. for everyone to munch on before conference started. We will probably do this again for the next conference. I think my favorite talk was by one of the 70's. I can't remember his name, but it was the talk about when Joseph Smith was praying in the sacred grove and the power of darkness came upon him. It was very powerful and Joseph Smith was...