I have decided that Lacy Casseaux is my hero. She has gone through
it all. She came to the island yesterday for her court date with her husband so we got to
see her. We visited with her last
night at Chelsie's. She will not be able to tell us where the shelter is
that she is staying at but she can not leave the shelter more so she will be
able to start going to a local church. She is getting day care for her children,
subsidized housing, food stamps, and programs to help her find a job. So she
will be back on her feet. She is still going strong with almost all of the
commandments. She had decided that she will wait a month to do her baptismal
interview because she needs some emotional time to heal and get back on her
feet. And then she will do the baptismal here on the island since all of her
friends are here. She has a lot of time in the day to read and she wants to use
this time to really connect herself to God so we gave her many church materials
to read. It was so good to see her. She looks like she is doing really well.
Yesterday we were at Chelsie's to
have dinner. Lacy left to go catch the bus to go to the park where she was
meeting her husband so he could see the kids. She was really nervous. Right
after she left we went to the store to get things to make dinner. And we saw
here walking down the road with her three kids. She had missed the bus because
her older daughter her has Autism was hitting the younger girl and it stalled
them enough where they were 10 feet away from the bus when it left. She was in
tears and hadn't known what to do. So we gave her a ride to the park all crammed
in this little car. I think Heavenly Father will forgive us for that one. Her
oldest daughter has started to have violent outbreaks and poor lacy has bruises
all over her. But she is going strong. She is my hero.
Well family, I met a lady named Joy today in the library and she needed help with her school
project. So I don't have much time to write. But I promise that I will give you
more updates next week.
I am loving the island. We will start having church in Micheal's basement.
We cleaned it out last week and made a compilation of coach's, love seats and
garden chairs for us to sit in:) But it is home:)
This week we had a zone conference with President Packard. And it was all
about prayers and receiving revelation. I realized that I do not know how to
pray. It is not enough to ask him to help us. We need to be asking him specific
questions for what we are needing. It is a struggle to learn how to listen to
the spirit and find the answers that come but this is how we enhance our
relationship with our Heavenly Father. President Packard said that the Lord will
almost always answer our question when we are asking him "What can I do to help
one of thy children." He wanted to make sure that we could find ways to turn the
feelings that we had with our visit with Elder Holland into action. Sometimes it
feels like there are so many things to be doing and so many ways that you can
improve that you have no idea what you are doing:) But being a missionary is a
Joy!
Our zone made a goal for each companionship to give away one book of Mormon
every day. It has been a blessing. There are people that we would have just
walked by but stopped to introduce the Book of Mormon to them and most of them
had expressed interest in reading it. Goes to show that there are always
individuals who are ready for the gospel. And if we feel like they aren't there
we just have to go find them. The Lord truly is just waiting on us to get on
board and be willing to do his work.
Well they are kicking us out our time is up. Sorry I didn't get to write
individual letters today! I'm a
worm!!! lol But I love you all very much and think about you often. I can feel
your prayers all the way over here! Have a wonderful week!
Love Sister Abbey Lou Rushton
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