Keep Up, Sister Mitchell, Keep Up

The great news is that our investigators are progressing towards their baptismal date of November 12th. We were traveling to another stake today but were happy to hear Catherine and Justin were at church and introduced to a new family. She texted me and said it was a beautiful day at church and she enjoyed the hugs. The Patriarch and his wife spoke, and his remarks on Patriarchal Blessings really resonated with Justin who wants to get one. Elder Nelson assures him that he can after he is baptized. We are praying for him tonight as he is at a Halloween Party with his friends...his old friends with old habits. Also, along investigator lines, Lorena is a non member who took our Workshop this past week. At one point she read from the D&C and then during the break asked for a copy of the book. When Sister P got her a BoM, she said, she preferred the Doctrine and Covenants because she liked how they write. She also asked it was possible to visit our church as she likes the feeling at the ERC....she likes how the people are treated and looked after. She said it is different here. So....we are skipping a Sunday of travel and are going to take her to the ward she would be attending were she a member of the church.
We have started our ward/branch visits to the Powder Springs Stake and will be on the road six of the next seven Sundays. The big plus this time is that the Stake Employment Specialist is the former Stake President who we are accompanying on these visits. We love having the priesthood smooth our way and give us counsel. We also have a two day Career Workshop we will be teaching in the Fayetteville Stake a week from Tuesday, and then another in the PS Stake the first week in December. We four missionaries in the office are also putting our heads together to see what we can do further to help our non professional candidates get jobs. The interviews are not coming, so we had a brainstorming session a week ago, have been pondering, and now will come together again to see what we can come up with. We are considering a mini job fair....
It is interesting that my two most discouraged candidates both have Masters Degrees in English....but no hard skills. They are both working to remedy that with a series of computer classes.
Halloween in tomorrow night and I am thinking of all my favorite little ghosties and goblins who will be trick-or-treating tomorrow night back in Washington, Oregon. and Utah. I love and miss them all.