Talking to Anna Felix

My favorite part this week was we got to talk to Anna Felix for a bit!  She moved somewhere else in Visalia so we passed her off to them.  Someone told us that she was visiting some family in our area so when we were in that area we felt like we should stop by.  We asked her how she is doing and her scans came back good that she didn't have cancer.  Then she asked us a question, what is the Atonement of Jesus Christ, I really want to know and I can't remember?  It was an amazing experience to teach her from the scriptures and testify.  Looking back we forgot to mention the strength she  can receive to overcome her addiction to smoking so we will have to let the other missionaries know so they can keep helping her.  We were not able to serve anyone this week, we keep trying but people say no, maybe I should be more persistent, but our members served us.  On Saturday at about 3:30 I broke one of my bike pedals, it was the screw part that goes into the crank that broke off.  We had dinner with a very nice family the Drennans who had the right tools to pull the rest of the pedal part out of the crank and then took us shopping to get new pedals.  We did not find any new people to teach, but we aren't giving up.  We were surprised on Sunday when a couple less active families came to church.  We have not seen any fruit yet partly because we have not been able to teach them, things keep coming up.  Lots of them told us we can come back so we might see some things this week but at this point its probably just a foundation for future missionaries.  I am going to miss the feelings of joy that come from being a missionary and being around missionaries so much. 

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