Monday we had a lesson with this black man named Sylvester Mosleyy.. I'm not quite sure how much he is progressing but he does tell us that he looks forward to us coming over every Monday night to see him. Tuesday night we met up with Paul Abendroth to set up his baptism for this week and he was super excited! He told us that he had a friend that told him that he was being baptized for all the wrong reasons and that he shouldn't go through with it and he told his friend.. despite what you say i am doing what i want to do! That was really cool to hear that and to know that Paul really knows this gospel is true! As far as Kandie, Anna and Rickey go.. they are still pretty neutral and not to sure how much progression there is there but still hope!
On Wednesday we were tracting some apartments and ended up getting kicked out of them.. apparently were not supposed to be doing that when i have a paper that says its a protected right under the first amendment.. apparently the constitution and all of that stuff don't matter to this country anymore.. who knew? We had a lesson during the afternoon with this lady named Minnie Morgan who we tracted out! She seemed pretty interested and we taught her the restoration and then she said that she is a member and used to have The Elders over to eat at her house when she was a kid. She does have a daughter that may be interested though so we will just have to see where that takes us. We got her information and requested her records to see if she really is a member and if she is not or we cant find her records then we will have to make a new record;) meaning baptize! haha.
Thursday was pretty slow.. But on Friday we went to this health care center where we visit a member that lives there.. She has MS so she cant walk or come to church so we visit her every week! We met a lady that was there temporarily because she broke her leg and we went to visit her that day too.. Her name is Colleen Ralson and i think i may have mentioned her in other emails but she read the Book of Mormon in 2 weeks and i think she just read it to find fault! Well when we were visiting her she was just arguing with us and the conversation was going no where and i was getting super frustrated so i just stood up and told her that werewere leaving and so we did and we are not going back!
Saturday was the best day this week! We had to be at the church at 9 to fill up the font cause it takes 2 hours to fill up! The Baptism for Paul started at 11 and there wasn't too much people there but the Spirit was strong! A man named Brother Scott Lloyd gave the talk on Baptism and it lasted 30 minutes! It was super long for a baptism talk when they are supposed to be like 5 minutes but it was super good! He went into detail about how baptism ties in with taking the sacrament! After the baptism my Ward Mission Leader told me that ever since i have been in this area we have been teaching like crazy! He said he remembers with previous missionaries that when he signed up to go out with them they would just do drop by's but with me we always have a lesson to go to! So that made me feel super good inside!
On Sunday we were standing at the doors waiting for Paul to come in and it was about 5 minutes until sacrament was going to start so i was getting a little scared thinking he might not show up but he did! And he was confirmed a member of the Church! That was really cool! I love seeing people change their lives for the better:) We are supposed to have another baptism for Kylie and Lexie this weekend but I'm not to sure how solid they are quite yet. so i guess you will find out next week! haha.. Before going home last night we stopped by to see Rickey in his trailer and i knocked on the door and he was yelling and sounded really pissed off! well he let us in and he was a little drunk but he sat and talked to us for 45 minutes about how Kandie his own sister lied to him.. Apparently she promised him work when he moved up here and right now he doesn't have a job so hes really angry with Kandie right now!
Well that's how my week went and i hope it was very entertaining:)
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