Dear Family,
Wow! Amazing week! Great experiences regarding last weeks theme of following the spirit!
So
first off, Monday we met with Savannah and we asked her how her reading
went. She said that last Saturday she felt the Holy Ghost and she feels
like its true. We told her to ask her parents when we could schedule
the baptism and she said she would. She seems super excited to get
baptized! However... this last Friday we found out that they are getting
evicted and they will be moving to a different Zone that the one we
cover. So that was pretty depressing. The 2nd person that we have so
close to baptism and then moves, in the last 2 weeks! So we were pretty
sad about that and this morning (Monday the 31st) we helped Kevin, her
dad, and Savannah move out. They will be coming to our ward for a while
until they can settle in. We really hope that she continues to progress
and that Kevin will want to take the lessons.
On Tuesday we had a pretty slow day. We had District
Meeting in the morning and then we had a good lesson with Armour right
after our meeting. We taught him part of the 1st lesson and right after
we talked about Joseph Smith he said that he was really tired and hungry
since he had not eaten breakfast yet. So we said we will teach the rest
of the lesson next time we meet. Teaching him is such a different
experience than everyone else I've ever taught. We go over the basic
points of the principle that we are teaching, he asks questions that he
has, and then when he is ready (done learning about that subject) he
turns the page and we move on. I really feel like we are going at his
pace and he is really understanding what we are teaching. He came to
church on Sunday and he seemed to enjoy it. He darted out at the end of
the meeting but Sister Bryan sprinted to go and talk to him (awesome
members!). Elder Campbell was able to talk to him and he said he would
be back next week.
So after our lesson with Armour we had to go to the
mission office, as we do every week, and by the time that was over it
was almost time for dinner. We decided to try to meet one of our
potential investigators, Kim and Reese. Before we got to their house we
saw this guy walking to his truck. We started talking to him and he said
that he goes to another church. He kept talking to us, however, because
he said that if he ignored us then we might dust our feet off at him
haha. So we continued to talk and he said that he and his wife are
separated becasue he has some things he needs to take care of. I smelt
alchohol on his breath when we first talked to him so I just assumed
that it was that. I had a prompting to tell him about the addiction
recovery program and when they met but I thought it would be too awkward
so I didnt. He asked us what our names were and we told him Elder was a
title. So he said, "Oh well I guess I'm Elder Gomez!". so we finished
talking and started to walk to our potentials house. Then I told Elder
Campbell that I had a prompting to tell him about the addiction recovery
program. Then I said, 'oh I have to do it now'. So we turned around and
walked toward his truck (in which he was sitting at this point) and I
told him that I felt that I needed to give him this info about the
program. He was appreciative and we headed over to our potentials home.
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