Happy Father's day to all the fathers and father figures in my life!!! I love you and am grateful for you all!
There is a crazy long story behind the subject...but it all started Friday evening, we were at our recent convert Dale's house teaching him the new member lessons.
He is engaged to a girl named Nancy. So here's a little background about them, so that the story makes a little more sense.
they have both previously been married, they are in there 60's and 70's. Nancy is a member of the church and when I first got to this area back in February, we had gone to visit her. She told us all about this guy at the seniors center who she had a crush on, but was too nervous to do anything. She said she could see them getting married though, and that she saw something special about him and that she wanted to share the gospel with him, but was too scared. So one day she told this man (Dale) about these girls who can teach him more about the church (us, lol). Eventually they out of no where got engaged and somehow we started teaching him the lessons. (I don't remember how that all played out and went) but long story short, he got baptized a little over a week ago, and they were planning on getting married in July, but then they heard that I could possibly be getting transferred next week and they made the decision to get married this Friday, the 21st! They heard that missionaries are able to civilly marry people in some circumstances with permission from the mission president, and they insisted that I marry them, so we told them we would ask President, and let them know what he says. Sadly he said no, but they talked to the bishop yesterday and he said he would love to perform it. So it's still on! But yeah, that is the story of how I almost married someone this Friday hahahah
Not much else happened this week, we contacted a lot of people and rode around the city Lampasas on our bikes for a day, and almost died of heat but it was nice to be out and exercise in the middle of the day haha
But I hope you all have a great week this week!! I love you all
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Love, Sister Thorpe
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