February 2, 2020

We have been working with Lana for 4-6 months.  She comes to church every week and is faithful in everything she does.  Her only problem she was living with a guy.  She asked him to leave and he wouldn't.  He would make one excuse or another and still be there.  She was paying all of the bills.  That is a common problem here on the rez.  Today they got in a big fight and she sent him packing.  The sisters told her to come to our trailer tomorrow and we would have a cake and cry party.  She said she would like that.  Hopefully this means that she can be baptized soon.  She was baptized previously (20 years ago) but the confirmation date was missing so she has to be baptized again.

Also tonight Cynthia Cleaveland came over and we helped her with some legal paperwork. (buying a home in Rapid City) we have been working on her for 7 or 8 months. She actually came to church today for the first time since we arrived here and we had a great service today. Anyway after we finished the paperwork she said I might need a blessing also. She said she has really bad anxiety when she comes to church. She had a really hard time coming today. We asked what she was concerned about and she said "oh i was concerned about slipping on the ice or something like that. We asked her if she felt that way when she went to school and she said no. (she is a school teacher and 69 years old) We said it sounds like you are being worked on by the adversary pretty bad. She agreed with that. I said i would be happy to give her a blessing and she wanted to wait until she had time to do some praying and I also had time. I suggested we set a date. and she agreed.