We had a very productive week!
We had a couple of
meetings with Victor and Steven. We taught Victor the plan of
salvation. He asked a lot of great questions about the spirit world and what happens to the people who don't get the chance to
have the restored gospel in their lives. We
were able to explain all of that to him! At the end of the lesson
we asked if he had questions and he said "I do!". He then pulled out a
little piece of paper that had like 6 questions on them and said " These are questions that my family told me to ask you.". So some of the
questions were like "When did we stop polygamy?" and "Why don't women
in the church have the priesthood?" and other similar questions that
people throw out at you when they know nothing about the church. Ha. So
we cleared those up and then we left! He is still super ready to get
baptized :)
So with Steven, we went over to his house, planning on teaching the lesson on the Gospel of
Jesus Christ, but we ended up just talking pretty much. We talked about
Utah and how it has "the greatest snow on earth!". We talked about
some of the freak storms that Maryland has had within the last 4
years and then we talked about how his Book of Mormon reading had been
going and we asked him if he had any questions. He didn't, so we asked him what his
favorite parts of the Book of Mormon were and why he liked reading the Book of Mormon. He then pretty much bore his testimony to
us of the Book of Mormon! It was super awesome! His baptismal date might
have to change though. He wanted it to be on the 11/17, but the problem is that his dad's birthday is on that same day. He is afraid that his baptism might take away from his dads day, so he's going to ask his dad what he's doing for his
birthday and if he's not doing anything then we're good for the 17th. If
he is then we will most likely have to re-set his baptism for the 16th or the 24th.
We'll have to see!
So, Gabby was confirmed last Sunday!! It was a super
awesome experience to confirm her and her her be the first confirmation I have done in the mission field. I really felt
the spirit guiding me, telling me what to say. It was just an
amazing experience!! Our goal with her now is to help her find a name
in her family line and then take it to the temple for the baptism trip
that is coming up in the ward. We have set her up with a family history
consultant in the ward and they almost have a few names ready for her to take to the temple. It's great!
Then on top of all of that, yesterday we were going to go on a walk
with the ward and all of the sudden Elder Broadhead said "We need to go
and work. I feel a very strong prompting that we need to go and find
someone." So we left before the others showed up and went to the very
first person on our "Potentials" list. We get out of the car and start
walking to the person's house and Elder Broadhead says "We need to go knock on that
door. down the street.". So we walked over there and knocked on the
door. A man named Victor came to the door. We started explaining about
how God has restored his true church and that he has called a prophet to
guide it! The man was super interested!! The sad part is of this story is that he is too old
for us to teach (We are assigned to the Young Single Adult Ward), but it's a blessing to find him for the sisters so that they will have new investigators!!
Well everyone, this week has been great! I miss you all and love you as well! Talk to you all next time!!
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