A faithful Hometeacher

Yesterday I was a little homesick for Eric as I looked at the bulletin board and saw his name still listed as a home teacher to 5 different families. It made me tear up for a moment. He is so much like his faithful father. Tim has tried so much to get home teaching to be ran like it should here in our ward and Eric followed in his footsteps and I believe that Tim learned from his father(Jeff). There is great power in a faithful home teacher. We had a sister that had been inactive for sometime return to church and had her daughter baptized yesterday. She was one whom Tim was assigned to visit. We had her and her daughter over for dinner yesterday and sang happy birthday to her too. The daughter whom is 9 kept going outside we did not know why finally her mom said that she needed to go to the bathroom. We showed her where pour inside toilet was. I am not sure if she had ever seen anything other that a squat toilet. We took her home and Hannah was with us. They invited us in and Hannah kept saying wow this is small. I tried to keep her from saying it. But it was small. It was very tidy but just a bed and a small cooking area. They gave Hannah a mango and taught her how to eat it like in the village. We then stopped at a lady who serves in the Primary with me. She has a young daughter about 3 years old. She always look like she has a lot of money on Sunday always dressed so nice and her daughter's hair is done perfect. We pulled up and boy was her house run down there were chickens running around. I would have never guessed that she was so poor by the way that she dressed on Sunday. It reminds me of when we lived in Philadelphia and the members in the inner city would dress great but that is all they could afford. So they appeared wealthy to the world but had nothing except a pair of nice clothes. She did not want us to come in her place but hannah went in with the little girl and said in the car "WOW their house is even smaller and there are no beds just a couch some chickens and a cat". It amazes me how people live with nothing and yet keep going.