Wow! Such a great week! We got 6 new investigators this week!
So
the first one was Catherine. She is the one who is living on the
streets. We are working with members of the ward to get her in a place
to stay so she can get baptized.
We had 3 great lessons with her this week! We taught her the
Restoration, Book of Mormon, and Plan of Salvation. During our first
visit she brought up a site on her ipad. It had the top ten most bizarre
things that 'mormons' believe. And we went through them all, one by
one, and for the most part they were all true. and she believes in all
of them as well.
We were able to teach Dave and Diane finally. We
found them while coming out of Kims house. They are christian and when
we brought up baptism they said that they have already been baptized. We
explained that it is essential to have the correct authority to perform
baptisms. They will be a long project but hopefully they can come to
church and feel the spirit.
Elder Campbell was able to teach a former
investigator Sister Smith while we were on exchanges. I'm not really
sure how the lesson went, since I wasn't there, but she came to church
and we have a lesson set up for Tuesday evening!
On Tuesday night we went to an appointment which
fell through. As we were leaving we saw this lady walking her dog. We
asked her if she has ever met with missionaries and she said she has
not. We explained a little about the restored Gospel and she agreed for
us to come by on Saturday. So We stopped by on Saturday we taught her
and her daughter, Anna, the first lesson. The daughter said she would
pray every night this week to know if what we taught was true. Anna also
accepted to be baptized when she knows its true. Greselda, the mom is
going to be a little more tough. She is catholic bt she doesn't come to
church because she doesn't feel the spirit. We invited her to come to
church (she didn't make it this week) and we hope she decides to come
soon. Anna is going to be the backbone of their conversion. She seems to
really want to do what is right.
So those were our new investigators for this week!
We are so excited to have a lot of people to teach! it is still going to
be really difficult to meet with them but we are just excited to have
things looking up. Last week we were in the finding stage and we are so
glad that the work paid off!
So one of our potential investigators, Chris, tried
to make a deal with us. He works at the pool Hard Rock Cafe (i cant
think of a worse place for missionaries) and he told us that he would
listen to our message if we went and visited him there. We told him that
we cannot go. He then invited us to this festival (in our zone) where
he would have a booth. He then made the same deal if we came there. So
we decided to accept. On Thursday we went over to the festival after our
temple trip in the early afternoon, to avoid crowds. As we walked up we
decided not to go in. It might have been the 9 dollar entry fee mixed
with our already present hesitation that made us decide not to enter :)
We hope that doesnt truly effect him listening to us!
We met with Armour on Tuesday and we asked him to
pray for what it means to him that the book of mormon is true. he knows
its true but he just doesn't know what to do with that knowledge. He
said it is going to be a huge change in his life if he gets baptized. so
we told him to pray about it. He didn't make it to church this week but
he better make it next week!! :)
We had a great lesson with Jarmaris. It was his
first 'new member lesson'. Brother Gardiner came with us and he is such a
great teacher! Jarmaris said that he wants to serve a mission and when
we told him that he will have to wait a year he said that would be
perfect for his music career. We are so excited for him! We were able to
ordain him a priest yesterday! So cool!
It was so great to be able to call home and talk to my parents for Mothers day! I hope they had a mothers day too!!
Well I think that is all for this week!
I love ya!
Elder John
"If we are not serving Jesus,
and if he is not in our thoughts and hearts, then the things of the
world will draw us instead to them! Moreover, the things of the world
need not be sinister in order to be diverting and consuming." - Neal A.
Maxwell
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