Special Invitations for Church

We had been asked by our area president some time ago to make a special effort to invite others to our church meetings yesterday. We and the other couple who have been serving in the Taxisco branch decided to do all we could to support this effort. This included providing a lunch after the meeting block.

A week ago yesterday, we gave the active members and young missionaries some of the following invitations (created by Mary and me) asking them to use the invitation to invite others. 

We went shopping for ingredients early in the week and got together Saturday afternoon with the Wades to make up most of the sandwiches. We didn't make all of them thinking that we could have substantial leftovers that would be hard to deal with.

We left yesterday morning to start our two-hour drive full of hope. However, about half way there, we hit a terrible hole in the road and damaged to two right tire rims so that both those tires went flat.

We replaced one with the spare and Elder Wade contacted the other missionary couples for help. One of them, who has the same car, drove almost an hour to us and allowed us to use his spare so we could carry on. This was a huge blessing as he helped us avoid disappointing a lot of people, most of whom we had not seen before.

We made it to the chapel for the end of sacrament meeting and became emotional at seeing how full the chapel was. Whereas we normally struggle to have 20 people in attendance, there were 47 - not including us. They had put together a children's choir including children we hadn't seen before and they had held a good meeting. Obviously, I didn't take pictures in the meeting but here are some for the lunch gathering we held afterwards.

We feel greatly blessed and hope to see many of these people in the future.

Here is a picture of the couple who will be heading home this coming weekend along with the branch president's family (including a young sister-in-law with her son).