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| We hugged and hugged and hugged and her comp took multiple photos but one is sufficient here to show you how happy we were to hug Erin! |
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| I love this photo of us with Erin. I can see in it why people refer to her as my "mini-me". She and I look so much alike! |
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| This is the door we waited outside for Elder Petersen to surprise Erin with us standing there. She saw us thru the glass and ran out to hug us! |
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| After a long long hug we took a selfie. Big smiles! |
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| Hermana Greenwood (5'3") and Hermana Farnsworth (6'). What a height difference but both so darling. |
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| Elder Petersen, the Visitor Center director, and our answer to our prayers. |
I have included my email to Erin after we saw her and her response.
OUR E-MAIL TO ERIN RIGHT AFTER WE SAW HER:
Dear Erin,
I thought I would tell you how we got to see you. I had prayed often that if we could see you while in Missouri at Liberty Jail and if the Lord saw fit than we would have the opportunity to see you. We didn't want to plan it or MAKE it happen because you had worried it would be hard. And I have missed you more since Mother's Day and agreed it might be hard.
Well, seeing you was an answer to prayers. Dad and I had been upstairs in the room before you go into the jail and it was overflowing. I headed to the bathroom and dad headed to save me a seat. However, the room was full so they sent part of our group downstairs to the other large room. Dad happened to save me a seat next to Elder Petersen. When I was time to go in the jail, I turned to Elder Petersen and told him we had a daughter on a mission at the VC and he said "I know Sister Greenwood". I was shocked he knew who I was but he said he had heard rumors that we would be there. He said he would drive us to see you if we could leave. I told the Him that you weren't so sure you wanted to see us because it would be too hard and he said "Oh, she is stronger than you think and she would benefit". How do you argue with that? We got permission from our leaders to leave and we took off. I couldn't believe it! If we had fit in the upstairs room or had we been in the second group we would not have had time or the opportunity to see you! The Lord answered our prayers. He just made it possible!
On the drive, Elder Petersen told us how great you are and what your strengths are. It was awesome to hear. He told us that you are very good at following the promptings of the Holy Ghost while giving tours. He said he can trust you to follow any instructions or ideas you are taught but that you also following the prompting you get while on the tour. He said he had a great referral from Salt Lake and he could give it to any of the visitor center missionaries and chose to give it to you because you would know what to do with it and do it well. Those are great strengths he sees in you Erin.
LETTER FROM ERIN THAT DAY AFTER WE SAW HER:
Dear Mom and Dad,
Ya, I was feeling the same way about meeting with you! I didn't want to arrange anything but I also didn't want to do anything to keep us from meeting. So I just let it happen. I did tell the Bronson's cause I knew they were on shift with you so I asked them to give you a hug for me and so Elder Peterson must have found out through them haha. That is so crazy! and I am so glad that I did get to see you! I think that it was good for me to see you! I'm planning to leave a thank you note for him
did you meet Sister Peterson too? They are so sweet and we are blessed to have them here at the Visitor Center now! They have taught me so much
I'm glad you got to meet Sister Farnsworth and I'm really glad that she got those pictures of us! Those were great!
ERIN'S WEEKLY E-MAIL:
So I don't have a whole much to say considering that I just saw you this morning haha but I just wanted to say how great it was to see you both! I'm glad that I got to see you!! It was such a surprise.
As far as my week went, we had a crazy unplanned lunch with an older lady in our ward. We got a call one morning from her son in law who was absolutely positive that we had her on our dinner calendar even though we didn't. After like 3 more calls from random family members who aren't even in our ward, the member was a little more than offended. We had already eaten lunch but salvaged the relationship by going to lunch with her anyways and ate more than I probably have in my life. But it worked and she loves us now haha! Just after we finished eating, she got a call from the elders...they were calling to confirm dinner. Haha it was a little ridiculous but it was good and now we are going to be working with her to teach her the recent convert lessons she never got.
We had another lesson with D that went really well! He has so many good questions and is really interested in applying these things into his life. We are really excited about working with him and he has so much potential. We also have been working with V and A and they are doing really well!
On Sunday we had an entire less active family at church and they brought non member family and friends too! Literally they all LOVED it and we went back on Monday to teach them more. We are really excited about them and about all the miracles that we have been seeing.
It seemed like this week all the people that we have been trying to contact and that we have been reaching out to FINALLY have gotten back to us and things are going well! The work is picking up and we are seeing miracles daily!
I love and miss you all lots! I hope that you have a great week :)
Sorry, I didn't have too much time to write today so I wrote this a little fast.
I LOVE YOU
I thought I would tell you how we got to see you. I had prayed often that if we could see you while in Missouri at Liberty Jail and if the Lord saw fit than we would have the opportunity to see you. We didn't want to plan it or MAKE it happen because you had worried it would be hard. And I have missed you more since Mother's Day and agreed it might be hard.
Well, seeing you was an answer to prayers. Dad and I had been upstairs in the room before you go into the jail and it was overflowing. I headed to the bathroom and dad headed to save me a seat. However, the room was full so they sent part of our group downstairs to the other large room. Dad happened to save me a seat next to Elder Petersen. When I was time to go in the jail, I turned to Elder Petersen and told him we had a daughter on a mission at the VC and he said "I know Sister Greenwood". I was shocked he knew who I was but he said he had heard rumors that we would be there. He said he would drive us to see you if we could leave. I told the Him that you weren't so sure you wanted to see us because it would be too hard and he said "Oh, she is stronger than you think and she would benefit". How do you argue with that? We got permission from our leaders to leave and we took off. I couldn't believe it! If we had fit in the upstairs room or had we been in the second group we would not have had time or the opportunity to see you! The Lord answered our prayers. He just made it possible!
On the drive, Elder Petersen told us how great you are and what your strengths are. It was awesome to hear. He told us that you are very good at following the promptings of the Holy Ghost while giving tours. He said he can trust you to follow any instructions or ideas you are taught but that you also following the prompting you get while on the tour. He said he had a great referral from Salt Lake and he could give it to any of the visitor center missionaries and chose to give it to you because you would know what to do with it and do it well. Those are great strengths he sees in you Erin.
LETTER FROM ERIN THAT DAY AFTER WE SAW HER:
Dear Mom and Dad,
Ya, I was feeling the same way about meeting with you! I didn't want to arrange anything but I also didn't want to do anything to keep us from meeting. So I just let it happen. I did tell the Bronson's cause I knew they were on shift with you so I asked them to give you a hug for me and so Elder Peterson must have found out through them haha. That is so crazy! and I am so glad that I did get to see you! I think that it was good for me to see you! I'm planning to leave a thank you note for him
did you meet Sister Peterson too? They are so sweet and we are blessed to have them here at the Visitor Center now! They have taught me so much
I'm glad you got to meet Sister Farnsworth and I'm really glad that she got those pictures of us! Those were great!
ERIN'S WEEKLY E-MAIL:
So I don't have a whole much to say considering that I just saw you this morning haha but I just wanted to say how great it was to see you both! I'm glad that I got to see you!! It was such a surprise.
As far as my week went, we had a crazy unplanned lunch with an older lady in our ward. We got a call one morning from her son in law who was absolutely positive that we had her on our dinner calendar even though we didn't. After like 3 more calls from random family members who aren't even in our ward, the member was a little more than offended. We had already eaten lunch but salvaged the relationship by going to lunch with her anyways and ate more than I probably have in my life. But it worked and she loves us now haha! Just after we finished eating, she got a call from the elders...they were calling to confirm dinner. Haha it was a little ridiculous but it was good and now we are going to be working with her to teach her the recent convert lessons she never got.
The other morning, my visitor center director (Elder Petersen) called me into his office and I got to talk with him and he gave me a referral to teach a lady online. He said that the referral came from a member who sent it in to Salt Lake and he wanted me to follow up with it. Well I called her yesterday and she is so interested in learning more! A lot of her family are members of the church and she already knows a lot but has a strong desire to learn about the Plan of Salvation. It was really cool to see someone with a thirst to learn more about the plan that God has laid out for us to find happiness in this life.
We had another lesson with D that went really well! He has so many good questions and is really interested in applying these things into his life. We are really excited about working with him and he has so much potential. We also have been working with V and A and they are doing really well!
On Sunday we had an entire less active family at church and they brought non member family and friends too! Literally they all LOVED it and we went back on Monday to teach them more. We are really excited about them and about all the miracles that we have been seeing.
It seemed like this week all the people that we have been trying to contact and that we have been reaching out to FINALLY have gotten back to us and things are going well! The work is picking up and we are seeing miracles daily!
I love and miss you all lots! I hope that you have a great week :)
Sorry, I didn't have too much time to write today so I wrote this a little fast.
I LOVE YOU
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