My
week has been amazing!! If you remember Henry from last week, pray for
request, well we lost him. Brother Smith kinda opened his mouth and told Henry false doctrine about the church and Joseph Smith and Henry told
us he rejected our request to come teach him. So fail!! Oh well. 60
degrees, not cool, it's been either freezing or so cold we have to triple
layer up!
Things are going goodish with the investigators. We are
trying to figure things out with Tom and Bill. Bill really isn't to fond
of Tom, that has been holding him back from coming to church but we are
trying to get them to come to Stake Conference Sunday!! Word of wisdom
is going to be a little challenging for both Tom and Bill but we are
progressing like a turtle!! Hahaha oh well.
William Suvchuck is a little
hard to get in touch with but we got him and are teaching him a second
lesson so there's one! Brandon Blease is another and I got a cool story
for that. Korena and kevin (friends) 2 other investigators. Jessica asked for a bible
and we gave her both the Bible and Book of Mormon, there's another. That's about it, so
a pretty good week hahah! I have not had to speak yet but I get the
feeling that I will be soon though!! I'll just use my farewell talk!!
Brandon Blease, we were walking back to our car from trying to see Leslie (oh
she is a new one too) and I look at the house across the street and got a
feeling to go there but I kinda ignored it at first. As we got closer
to our car which was by that house, the feeling got stronger and stronger. Finally I looked back at the house and it was like the Holy Ghost ran me
over with a semi. I was like, Elder Hintze lets go to this house. We went
to the back door and knocked and this kid comes out and the first thing
he says is "hey elders" Elder Hintze then introduces us and Brandon said
"ya I know I am a member down in Somerville North Carolina, I have
since kinda fallen away and have gone down my own path" E. Hintze "well
we felt like we should come here and there is no coincidence why. God
has a plan for you and he wants you to come to church." We exchanged
numbers and we are waiting to make an appointment with him!! Best week
ever!!
Brother Moses is a goof, he is a serious comedian guy,
makes me laugh so hard my stomach hurts. We go see him ever Monday after
computers and he kills me at pool but I have gotten significantly
better.!!
In one month I have grown to recognize the
promptings of the spirit whether it be important or unimportant,
pertaining to the investigators and people we are knocking on doors to
find. Understanding the scriptures a lot better. It's just so amazing how
the spirit teaches us!
Love you tons
,
my pea coat is so warm!!! Tom and Bill... well, Bill won't come to church
and we can't do anything else so we are going to have to drop him....
.
Tom on the other hand well where do I even begin... I guess the beginning. F
We did personal and companion study, then hit the road. We went to a
meeting for Elder Hintze, we went with some other missionaries and had
our own meeting... we did role plays and talked with a member and
shared some insights about expectations from a investigators point and
how we as missionaries can get that information out of them. It was
cool. Me and Logan did role plays while the other set went to a lesson.
After we went to go get gas for the car, we turn onto the road by the
gas
station and the car shuts off....I mean really, come on I'm right here.
So I have Logan drive while I push... oh well it was easy. Filled up,
drive back, pick up both packages and voila safe. We go see a member
named Fred Smith, he is less active and disabled, he doesn't see any
point
in going because he doesn't have a family to be there with, he feels
out
of place. We tried to explain to him but he didn't really want to hear
it. He is a great man, he understands a lot but won't put forth effort
to
come even though he knows it's right. While we were talking to him a guy
in his early 20's came up and we started chatting with him about Mormons
and stuff and then he said he would like to meet one.Smith says,
"well you are in the presence of 4 Mormons and 2 are missionaries and 2
are
members". His face lit up and that opened up the jar of bottomless
questions!!! We seriously sat there for a half an hour constantly
answering questions, finally we needed to go see Tom. We gave a
Restoration pamphlet and a card to get a free book of Mormon. He was
intrigued and we set up an appointment to see him. YEAH A NEW
INVESTIGATOR!!!!. Tom's house we go... get there and Brother Jones our
team up is there. We go into Tom's house and those two, Brother Jones
and Tom hit it off right off the bat. We get to the middle of the lesson
and
earlier this is where we felt like we needed to ask a very important
question... we get to the part where the priesthood is restored and
there
are really no words that can describe how I felt. I looked at Elder
Hintze and he nodded his head, I looked at Logan and nodded my head and
he got the message...Logan smiles and says,"Tom will you be baptized?"
Tom starts laughing and goes of on a tangent for like 10
minutes and Brother Jones chimes in and says things that get him and Tom
on
other subjects. It gets all silent and I chime in... "Tom will
you follow the example of Jesus Christ by being baptized, by someone
holding the priesthood authority of God?" Tom say's "I don't know"...
Elder Hintze says "lets pray right now." I then said "Tom we want you to
ask
a very specific question, ask if getting baptized is the right thing to
do?" Brother Jones then grabs hands with me and Tom and the rest of
us do likewise. He prays and says amen and we sit in silence and let the
Holy Ghost do his work. Tom asks "
