It Is Hot-July 1, 2009

Dear family and friends,

Well it is offically HOT! This week we have done a lot of walking. For the past few days it has been over 100 degrees. We are just covered in sweat. Saturday we walked around 12 miles, we were outside all day long too. We left are apt. around 10 that morning and walk to different people but no one was home. Walked home to have lunch and then went back out there. We got into only one home after that. But we were blessed with 2 new investigators from it! Then we walked some more trying to find new investigators to teach.

I think we got very close to having a heat stroke, we were definitly very dehydrated. By about 4:00 we started to get very tired, short of breath, I felt sick to my stomach, and we could not drink enough water to stop our thurst, and we were a little light headed. We finally found some shade, for no one was home!, and sat down to rest. Then we had a ward party to go to that was at the park so we were outside all night too. The ward members took great care of us though, and we realized now that walking around all day was not the best idea we ever had especially in this weather.

Oh, and a little miracle and blessing about walking around in the sun is I only got a little sunburned on my neck and that was it, with my fair skin it could have been really bad.

Anyways on a good note we had a really good lesson this week with the Shadwick family. They are less-active but want to start coming back to church. They are just so hungry to get their lives back together and learn. We are going to start meeting with them everyweek now to teach their family. They have 4 children, 3 boys and I girl. And one of their sons is not baptized. I am excited to continue to teach this family.

God is watching over us all. He never forgets us or forsakes us. He knows each one of us personally for we are His children. Christ suffered and died for us and through Him and only through Him can we return to live with Heavenly Father again.

I love ya'll. Have a great 4th of July!

Love,
Sister Keys