This week has been great! After Preparation day last Monday we went to teach this man named Sylvester Mosely.. Hes a black man that we tracted into and so we went back and taught him The Restoration. It was a really good discussion with great questions and we left a Book of Mormon with him and we are going back tonight to teach him again.. Tuesday we had District Meeting and that was good. We went home to eat lunch after that because President Durrant has asked us not to eat lunch as a district anymore to save us more time for prosolyting! Later that night we had a lesson with a new investigator that we tracted into as well. Her name was Beverly Chandler and she is pretty interested in learning more and our discussion was good. We had a member go with us and his testimony was pretty powerful when he talked about Prophets and why we need them today!
On Wednesday we tracted all morning long and i got yelled at by an old grumpy man. It was so hard for me to not lose my temper and plow right through him. he made me pretty angry! We had dinner that night with the old stake president and his wife (The Nielsen's)! I love eating at their house. they are so funny but the only bad thing is.. is that he is a food pusher and by the time i leave their house i am stuffed! We had a lesson later that night with Kandie and Anna and we taught them about Tithing and Fast Offerings. that was a good lesson and i committed them to fast one day this week and for the purpose of quitting smoking... Thursday morning we had a lesson with Tom Deborello and it was great.. It is kind of irritating how he doesnt grasp the concept of a "God".. he says he pretty much needs physical proof and God is not going to come through the roof and appear to him so he needs to have lots of faith! Later that night we had another lesson with our baptismal date Paul Abendroth! He is so ready and is super excited! We finished teaching him the Gospel of Jesus Christ and our member that was with us.. Scott Lloyd was very bold with him! He was asking him alot of questions wanting to know if he really knows this is true and stuff like that! It was good for him though. One question Bro. Lloyd asked him was "Do you feel like you would be ready for baptism on April 28th?" and Paul replied "I already am ready!" That was so Awesome to hear!
Friday morning we met with our new investigator Colleen Ralson and we ended up giving her a Book of Mormon last week and when we met with her Friday she was already to Alma 20! I was shocked! But instead of teaching her the Plan of Salvation like we were planning on doing. We answered a lot of her questions. I dont think she is reading it for the right reasons but reading it so she can "try" and find fault! That was a little irritating. Later that afternoon we drove out to Jacksonville and picked up a member Bro. Jack Parmer (He is an 83 year old that was baptized last year). We drove to our investigators Jennifer Herrington and shared with her The Gospel of Jesus Christ.. She seems to be doing good but i think she needs a more solid testimony and she needs to quit smoking! Saturday was a good day but it seems like every Saturday we do a lot of tracting! We didnt have a dinner appointment so i called our investigator Kandie and asked her if she would feed us and she said she would. so we went over to her house for dinner and while she was getting her food ready she gave me a letter that she wrote and it said this:
Dear Elders:
I would just like to take the time to tell you how much i really appreciate everything that you and all of our other Elders do to make a differance in peoples lives. As a child i was broken.. i had a very abusive life between and alcoholic mother and a neglective father. It is true as a child you need to choose your own path and unfortunately my path was the very wrong path. i consistantly ended up in very abusive relationships (up till now) and suffered the loss of a very beautiful duaghter.. Amanda Lynn. I was blessed to carry her for nine months but unfortuantely her life was cut short almost as well as mine. God saved me for a reason and i really had a problem with that. i never understood why after all of the mistakes and bad paths i had put myself into. As time went by i was given another chance in life. i believe it was his destiny but i was blessed with two more daughters. after being blessed with both of them i fell again into the worst path you can imagine. i turned to drugs slowly but surely i saw and felt myself drifting away almost thinking there was no place in this world for such a mistake like me! Until one day i had a knock at my door and i met the most amazing people in the world! My first Elders.. Elder Lindsey and Elder Hawkey. They my Elders never judged me. They directed me and gave me the answer i was looking for.. I do belong! Jesus Said you are my child no matter what you have done in your past and as for the abusers and the people that have tried to detour me from my feelings. i have been given such an amazing gift to forgive them and to just go forward! That i have! For the first time in my life i feel as though i truely have a purpose in life thanks to my newest Angels.. Elder Christensen and Elder Hedberg! And of course The Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-Day Saints. You have truely touched my heart and gave me hope. New hope in life and the belief that i also will get to see my little girl Amanda Lynn again! I truely love Every single one of you with all of my heart and have got to say that i thank you from the bottom and the top of my heart! I love you! Thank you so much for making me feel so free.. so new! your sister/friend.. and growing closer to the lord- Kandie Towne!
After eating dinner we had a lesson with just Kandie because Anna was at work and she told us that she had been fasting all day for the desire to quit smoking! i was so excited to hear that and that reassured me that she really does want to change! Church was great yesterday and we had a lesson with Kylie and Lexie.. our investigators that Elder moses and I began teaching. we had not met with them in a while and so we had a lesson. we just read them the baptismal interview questions and they answered all of them right on the money! we figured out that the reason they were scared to get baptized was because they felt they were too old! we fixed that problem pretty darn quick and set a baptism date with them for May 5th! Cinco de Mayo! Later that night we had dinner with a less active family and this man used to play football for TCU! He played back when Ladainian Tomlinson played with them so that was pretty cool to hear! Well that was my week and i am tired haha!
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