… was a beautiful Sabbath day. We had a good church service - my husband preached on hypocrisy and it was an excellent sermon. Really, one of the best I have ever heard him preach. I wish I had recorded it! It was our week to be at our church in Belcher, KY.
After church, there was potluck - soooo much food this week! Wonderful. After potluck, Mykal and I and our four girls went out in search of people to invite to our Bible Prophecy Seminar later in the evening. Our head elder had asked us to drive up one particular holler and invite a man he had recently met. So, off we were.
I love going door to door witnessing. It is always exciting to me. We drove up this steep hill and back into the holler (in case you aren’t sure what a holler is - it is an often steep, narrow road where between the mountains where people live. Here in Southeast Kentucky, these hollers are filled with poverty.) Anyway, we found the house - we had been warned out the dog - and Mykal told me to get out and go next door to talk to a lady sitting on her front porch while he spoke to this man. So, I got out and walked down to talk to this woman and invite her to the meetings.
After speaking with her for a couple of minutes, I walked away and headed over to the other house. Now, this other house was up the hill somewhat and when I got to the house I couldn’t find the van. I was already scared because I had been told there was a vicious dog. And I didn’t know where my husband had gone. And then I saw him at the end of the holler, 1/2 a mile away trying to turn around. The roads in a holler are so narrow it is often very difficult to find a place to turn around. Well, moments later he pulls the van out and parks in this man’s driveway just as the man comes out to see who we are. I went to get in the van and the dog - a HUGE rottweiler jumps up, growling, and rushes toward me.
I just knew I was going to get bit! The man made a noise and the dog stopped but was still looking at me (plastered to the side of the van). The man says, “He’ll bite ya. He hates women.” I opened the door and jumped in the van as quickly as possible. My husband during this whole 15 sec event was walking around the van and was no where near me to save me. My heart was pounding! But thank God nothing bad happened!
After that, we drove out to another neighborhood and split up - my husband took the youngest children and I took the older girls and we agreed to meet in the middle. My two daughters, Sarah and Emily, went from door to door - about 35 in all and my husband went to four and ended up talking to one person for a long time which was good because she wanted Bible Studies. All in all it was a wonderful day - the meeting went well an we were all blessed by the events of the day. However, I am not sure I will ever go back in a holler by myself again!
