Hey y'all!!
Tuesday started off great. We started out by cleaning out the area book. We stopped by quite a few people, just on the fact that their number wasn't the right number. That took us until about noon I would say. Then we went out to talk to several of those people who did give us their number but gave us their address, plus a few other people we felt like we needed to see.
The first lady we saw was Heidi. She has been through a lot these past few weeks and hasn't been able to return any calls lately. We talked on her porch for a good hour about what has been going on, and how Christ is coming again, in reference to the hurricane, and earthquakes, and the fires. After we spent all of our time at her place we went to the salvation army and helped serve food there.
After that, we had dinner at Brother Dick's house. Such an amazing man, if all church members could be like him we would be better off for it. We then had a lesson with Caitlyn, and she had a friend over, who, over the course of events, we were able to teach her the about the restoration, and she said she would like to learn more! By the end off the lesson all five of us had said a prayer one less formal than the others, but we all talked to God in that lesson. Me, my comp, Matt, Caityln, and her friend.
Wednesday was uneventful until we spent the night with the Lewisburg Elders. They have a bat problem so we went on a bat hunt and saw nothing. It was disappointing. One of the Elders had a sword and we were dressed for war and we saw nothing!!
Thursday was zone conference. Elder Nelson from the 70s came and spoke to us about the gospel of Jesus Christ and, part of that was an announcement! Our mission is getting Facebook, Messenger, Google Hangouts, and... smart phones!! Thats right each missionary will be able to have a smart phone of some kind. We will also be given the opportunity to respond to those that ask questions on Mormon.org. everyone is pretty stoked for this.
Friday was a long day of weekly planning with appointments scattered through it. I don't even think we actually finished it
! We ran back into brook, and she is interested. We set up a returned appointment with her to teach her more. Our last visit of the night was back with Caitlyn and she had another friend over and we taught her the message of the restoration.
Saturday started out with a lesson at 7:45 at the church and our investigator, Lukas, wanted to meet the bishop. We went over to the James' and we had our district leader interview them for baptism. They passed and so we are in baptism mode trying to get everything ready for them! I still have to make up a special musical number for them. It's going to be loads of fun!
That evening we ran into a Jehovah Witness family. Really nice. The missionaries have been over there before. They take really good care of us. They were surprised to find out that I knew bible stories! They have a bible called the "New World Translation." It's basically a modernized wording, and they replace the word LORD with Jehovah. My companion has one and I was reading through it with my bible and there are so many plain and precious truths that are lost in that version.
Sunday we had church again, but we also got a referral from church headquarters saying that someone had requested a bible, so we went to drop it off and this little southern lady came out and talked to us. She believes in Christ and loves the gospel and was very surprised that we were getting that to her the same day she ordered it!! We gave her a bible AND a Book of Mormon and set up a return appointment!! We then had a lesson with Edward and he accepted the invitation to be baptized!! We now have six people with a date!! It's been a crazy week. All I can say is God is good all the time!!
-Elder Griffin
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