"My Wife wants to buy an Amish kid for a day...."

Ok did yall know the Amish auction there kids off certain days of the year to raise money for their church??? Apparently they allow people to bid on their kids to come do labor for them at their house. We were in line at Walmart when this couple behind us started talking with us and they asked what kind of things we do as missionaries. We started listing off the things we can do and we mentioned service. The guy told us how his wife has been wanting to buy an Amish kid to come do work on their property.....we said we are free and there is two of us so we will see if they will pick us over the Amish kid hahaha.

Ok not going to lie this week has been rough! I mean like hours on end of knocking and NO ONE interested. We even had one guy walk to his door and without even opening it or us even getting to breathe he just said "NO" and walked away. What if we had an emergency man?!?!? Luckily this one guy though was definitely not interested in our message but was kind enough to offer us a sugar free grape Popsicle(see picture below). Oh and just in case you were wondering.....pouring rain and thunderstorms does NOT increase people's interest or charity. It just seems like all our people we have been teaching are dropping like flies! We have had 2 people call and drop us and 2 just stop responding....but I told Sister Ogden the Lord must be preparing us for some pretty amazing people to teach. 

Not that this email is supposed to be full of complaints....but one more! Our car had an ANT hill in it! We started seeing ants inside our car....and this happened a couple weeks ago but went away. Well we cleaned our car but it just doesn't make sense we aren't aloud to eat in the car....where are they coming from??? So we were driving and we just saw a ton of Ants outside of Sister Ogdens window so I pulled over and started to kill them so that they wouldn't get into our car....I opened up her door to get some that had crawled in the crack(sister Ogden doesn't kill bugs.....it took her 45 minutes to kill an earwig.....I have video for proof if you don't believe me). When I opened up the door there were HUNDREDS of ants!!!!! I am not exaggerating! And they were ALLLLLL carry eggs!!!! It was disgusting! We luckily were by this house that had some raid and gave us the stuff to kill them and wipe it away but man did I feel itchy the rest of the day. They had created their nest inside the door hinge....gross.

Okay but now for the tender mercy of the week! 

Like I said super slow....super hard week!

I was in church with no clue on what to do afterwards for the rest of the day. I was just praying that we would have just one person that would let us in or be interested in what we had to say. I literally was pleading with the Lord and even was fasting for it yesterday. While in Sunday school we received a referral of a man who ordered a book of Mormon. So right after church we drove out to him and when we pulled up he was outside just about ready to leave. We were able to give him the book of Mormon and he told us that he was excited and shocked how fast it came. He told us how he is a good christian man that has tried everything and still doesn't know what is right and he has had a few friends go this route so he finally decided to look into it to see if it is what he is still missing. We go back tomorrow to teach him and I am just so excited to have someone who is really interested in what we have to say. I am grateful for a Heavenly Father who listens to a pleading missionary's prayer. He is truly in the details of our lives! I hope each of you know that. Heavenly Father is aware of you and everything you are going through! Turn to Him and He will provide....after all that you can do.

I love yall!!!

-Sister Rice