#14 - Week of Miracles!

This week was a week of miracles. On Tuesday we found a lady who just moved into her house and three weeks ago her husband passed away. She let us into her home and we taught her the Plan of Salvation. She knows that she will see her husband one day. I think it is so special when we meet those who are prepared for our message. She told us how she wants to be baptized! It is very rare for someone to let us in their home around here. It almost felt like she was expecting us! 

Funny story a lady told us this week she was baptized by God.... Cool! Hahaha don't know how true that is... We had a guy offer us a drink but I told him I was driving tonight and he asked Elder Clark and he didn't know what to say. hahaha I love throwing him into awkward situations:)

We are going to Bloomington for Pday to go play basketball with our zone!

Today when we were doing our laundry we talked with a man who wanted to know what football team we played for. Haha all four of us elders played in high school but we told him we were missionaries who helped people come closer to Jesus Christ. He was so appreciative of what we were doing. He told us that is much better than playing football. Right before he left he walked up to me and with tears in his eyes handed me $40! We don't accept money as missionaries but he literally wouldn't let me give it back to him. We knew he didn't have much money but he wanted us to go out to lunch with it. I think I share this every Monday but I have a testimony that people can see the light of Christ in us. We are different because we have the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I invite everyone to be an example to those around you by living it. 

We had a zone conference on Wednesday. President Cleveland is awesome! He is so inspired. I love how he teaches us with his coach voice! There is never a dull moment! 

Vance is getting baptized on Saturday! We have been teaching him for two months now. It is incredible how he has changed. Everyone is invited. It starts at 10 o'clock and don't be late;)

Nikki, Paula, Jared, Chuck, Jonie, and Mary also accepted invitations to be baptized. We have seen so many miracles this week. The Holy Ghost is so important as we teach people. The Holy Ghost is the teacher in the lessons. Tuesday night we were at Jared's house about to go to teach the Book of Mormon and I remember how as we knocked on the door I said a personal prayer to teach by the spirit. He was one on our investigators who was on the fence, boarder line to accept or reject what we had to say. As I testified to him of what I know to be true that night he knew it to be true. His attitude has changed so much since that night. He has the desire to be baptized. 

The Book of Mormon is the word of God. It testifies that Jesus is the Christ. Without it we would not have the fulness of the Gospel. Our whole message relies on that book. I know it to be true. I challenge everyone to read and study it and then to ask God for themselves if it is. If that book is true then Joseph Smith was a prophet and the Church of Jesus Christ has been restored in these last days. 

Love ya! 

Peace Out

We bought CLEVELAND hats #represent

This guy is part of the Martinsville Mafia he says. We changed it to Mormon Mafia! Dude is a THUG and he calls us his brothas so its a G

This is Dennis we baptized. He is so old and looks scared out of his mind but he was really excited I swear haha

Dear Mom,

ah Jeff potter the dad is all into anti! he has been researching why Joseph smith isn't a true prophet and everything. he goes about trying to find fault in the church not why it is true. it has been so hard. Nancy and the girls like to go to church every once in a while but we haven't taught them the lessons because of Jeff. He doesn't know the basic principles of the church so when he looks up all this deep doctrine it makes him go crazy. last night at 11 he texted me telling me that he was a false prophet because a false prophet makes false prophecies and apparently he said Christ's second coming would be in the 1860s or something... its so stupid. we want to show them some mormon messages and gospel videos. maybe watch 17 miracles with them? any ideas?

clark is working hard and growing! lol one of the first days he was here we were teaching a man about the restoration. i gave the first vision and the spirit was super strong. usually as a greenie you don't know much so you don't talk a whole lot. this man told us he feels like that could happen but he wasn't sure that we were the only church of jesus christ, but all people could go to heaven. before i could answer clark starts talking about the 3 kingdoms of glory! haha!? what?? it was way off the topic and just made the dude look at us like we were dumb. he learned a lot from that lesson. we laughed about it as we walked away. but yesterday we put 3 more people on date for baptism! this work is on fire! we taught 61 lessons this week. top in the mission;)

hmm easy rules are like going to bed and getting out to work. but since I've been training i realize how exhausted i am haha so in the morning its hard to wake up at 630 but i still do it. so that is a bit of a challenge. another one is we are suppose to have someone back us up when we are driving but i usually just back up. i will work on that ha