Hello!
Good stuff this week, it was
good getting to start off the week with some face to face contact with you
guys, definitely a blessing. We started off on Tuesday with a bunch of lessons,
we had back to back lessons from 13-17 with Bev, Tommy, Maya, and Jake. It
was super good, Bev was just English help, but that was fun. Elder Wood was
falling asleep the whole time during that one. Tommy was good, we talked to him
about the Plan of Salvation we didn't get all the way through though. Then after
that we met with Bev and Maya, we taught about the Gospel of Jesus Christ so
basically repentance, baptism, faith, holy ghost and all the good stuff. It was
kinda funny because they walked in acting all weird, we asked them if they were
all right and they said not really but wouldn't tell us why. We ended up
sitting down and they explained that they had looked through some Anti-Mormon
stuff, so we answered their questions then taught our lesson. It ended up going
really well and Maya actually committed to be baptized on the 11th of next
month, so we will be working towards that.
Bev and Maya are kinda funny
because they have a very strange relationship, they are best friends but
sometimes they get in fights. For example they are in one right now and Bev
won't answer phone calls from Maya, they are awesome though.
Our last meeting on Thursday
was with Jake, he came back to church last week and we set up a meeting, he
has read the whole Book of Mormon and said that he believes it is true and that
Joseph Smith is a prophet and he even said that he feels that answer is from God.
Seriously an awesome miracle. We just need to help him understand what that
means for him, that this church is the only true church. I think if we got him
to understand that he would be willing to join the church.
We totally dropped the ball on
Wednesday, we had a meeting set up with Ally on Thursday and we asked Sally if she would come be on the meeting with us, and she was willing, but for some
reason when i was telling her about the meeting I said Wednesday... So when Wednesday rolled around we got a call from Sally wondering where we were... It
was super bad, so she was kinda mad at us, but she said we could make it up to
her by helping her with English so she isn't mad anymore. Also she flaked us
when we were planning on helping her with English so we are even.
Later on Wednesday we had Zone
Training, we learned about Diligence and finding people, and inviting people to
get baptized and stuff. So pretty classic stuff.
We actually met with Ally on
Thursday, it was pretty good, she didn't really read so we talked about the
importance of that.
We went out to visit Adam on
Saturday and his roommate joined our lesson, they are both from some branch off
of the 7th Day Adventist church. His roommate Soren
knew the bible really
well, and I was actually really surprised that he basically understands all the
basic doctrines of the gospel correctly, like we were talking about the
Priesthood being restored to Joseph Smith and he was describing the difference
between the Melchizedek Priesthood and the Aaronic Priesthood really well. It
was fun. It was also cool because he would support the stuff we were teaching
with the bible while we were teaching.
Sunday was good, we had a
somewhat light sacrament meeting attendance but we had a couple visitors and
there was a good amount of people. There were too many English speakers and not
enough head set translators, so I had to translate from the Pulpit which is
always annoying because it slows down the meeting a ton.
Other than that, there isn't much crazy news from this week,
love you guys!
-Elder Everett
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