Elder Dalton E. Griffin

January 29, 2018

I'm Singing in the Rain!!!

For real though. We went tracking in the rain. It was warm, and it's January. What is this lie we call winter

Well howdy y'all,

Not going to lie... this week has been very long...  it was like a piece of taffy and it was just stretched out and there seamed to be no end, but... here we are!! 

This week we had a zone training. A bucket load of commitments were left to all of us, and I played the piano!  Afterwards we came back, had dinner and visited Shannan. She made us apple dumplings. It about died and went to heaven. They are so easy to make as well. Wednesday we spent all day trying to find potentials and less actives. At the end we did get a team up with a member, and we went down to a town called New Bethlehem, but everybody calls it New Bethlem. Pennsylvanians are extremely lazy with their words! We had a really good lesson on faith. 

Thursday there where two eventful thing that happened!  One  was our visit to Shelia Pope, and Bro Hartzell. At Shelia's we got talking and she was talking about her dad's old saxophone, she had it out, so I put it together and found an old unused reed, and then proceeded, with my limited saxaphone knowledge, to play some random notes and call it improve Jazz! Then her cousin who lives with her pulled out his guitar and then proceeded to jam out on it. He is actually really good on that old six-string. 

At Brother Hartzell's I discovered that I'm a Root Beer addict! We had a good lesson on the Holy Ghost, and forgiveness of sins. Friday was my 6 month mark I'm officially no longer a greenie! Friday I was able to cook up some crab legs, and let me just say that who ever thought that eating a crab in the first place, just have been crazy. It was good, but it almost wasn't worth it. That was too much work for too small a piece of meat! Other than that we spent the whole day weekly planning... We went out for less than two hours and the family we tried to visit wasn't there... yeah it was a very long long long day... 

Saturday I cooked up some brownies for our investigator, and in return she gave us doughnuts, kiwis, and milk. We spent the rest of the day over in Clarion. We spent the first few hours trying to find less actives, and former investigators. We ran into a lady who's mother was a Mormon, and she went to a few Mormon summer camps. She said she was having a hard time with religion right now. We gave her a Book of Mormon and she said that We could stop on by latter on.

 We had dinner st the Pizza pub, it was good, but not something I would get too excited about. Then after that we spent the rest of the night tracking.... In the rain... At least it was warm!  Out of every door we knocked only two seamed interested enough to take a Book of Mormon. One of those two Books of Mormon had my personal testimony written in it. I almost didn't want to give it away. It had become a part of me, and I didn't want to let go, but I did, and I can only hope that it will change their life!

 ‎Sunday was a great day! we had 4 investigators show up, as well as 3 less actives!! It was quite a good Sunday. Then after church we ran around like chickens with our heads cut off. We found a former investigator, I cooked up a thing of corn bread, and brownies for a dinner that night and we also visited Si in the Nursing home. He is still trying to find out who Jesus Christ really is. We hope to help him in that. 

We then had dinner with Shannan, her Grandma, and the Fairbanks. Everyone loved the cornbread. We had a good talk on Christ and Romans Chapter 8. We said our goodbyes and Shannan prayed for Elder Richardson. It truly was a tender moment. Little Lizzy sang a song for us all. It was a good way to finish off a good Sunday.

 

‎Well that's it for now folks!

Ttake care.  Love you guys

  ‎-Elder Griffin