On Monday we gave our second church tour of all time. When we give tours we go through a few pictures in the church, show them the chapel, and have a lesson next to the baptismal font. I love them because we don't have any distractions like we would have at their house. We gave it to a lady named Linda. The spirit is so strong when we give these tours! When we leave the distractions behind and give the Lord our time to feel the Spirit we will grow closer to Him and the struggles of life will become easier. Our investigator Mike, and all the others, tell us how busy their life is but the truth is when you set your priorities straight, with the Lord and your family first, life will fall into place. Mike is learning that as we are meeting with him and his family. I like to use an analogy. When you put a ping pong ball in a cup and fill it to the top with rice, everything will fit nicely! But when you try and put the rice in the cup then the ball on top it will not fit. When we focus on scripture study, going to church, fulfilling your callings, PRAYING, and the Lord, the crazy life that we all live will will become more manageable and you will feel the peace and love that your Father has for you.
We knocked into the oldest house in martinsville! The people are catholic and weren't very interested but we before they could shut the door we started complimenting them on their house decorations that we could see from the porch. They opened up to us and let us inside to see the rest of their house! It was so cool! Here are some pictures of it. They love Indians! Lucky for us we have history of the Indians in the Book of Mormon! They opened up to us and we taught a great lesson about it. Hopefully it will spark their interest!
I bought some basketball shoes! We play some good ball on Mondays and I have trashed my running shoes... haha surprising right? So I got these shoes so I can run faster and jump higher like the kid from the Sandlot movie:) They were on sale for $35 dollars!! Steal! They were usually more than 100 bucks so that is good!
Thursday night we went to a party at the church with some other missionaries and the senior couple missionaries. Elder and Sister Strong are so cool! They had some fun games set up and made us dinner with chocolate covered strawberries that were pretty dang good:)
We had our Pday on the new years day instead of Monday this week. We played basketball at the stake center with a bunch on missionaries! It was probably the best ball I've played since I have been out!
These pictures are from a house that we knocked into this week. It is the oldest house in Martinsville! The people are catholic and weren't very interested but we before they could shut the door we started talking with them about their house decorations that we could see from the porch. They opened up to us and let us inside to see the rest of their house! It was so cool! They had books of Indian history with dog sleds and swords and deer and moose heads mounted all over their walls! They love Indians! Lucky for us we have history of the Indians in the Book of Mormon! They opened up to us and we taught a great lesson about it. Hopefully it will spark their interest!
We had a lesson with the Cash family Saturday night. They are a great family! We found them in the area book and have had much success with them! We taught them the Plan of Salvation. It was like they were glued to us as we brought the Spirit into their nice home. Their grandma just moved in with them and will be living with them for a few months. She wasn't on the same boat as the rest of the family haha. After we taught about the Kingdoms of Glory she went on a bit of a rant about how we don't know this and it doesn't say this in the scriptures. I just smiled at her and turned to 1 Corinthians 15 where it talks about this. Once she finished her little rant I simply read verses 40-42 and testified that the Lord has a place for all his children. We read a few other verses where it talks about the after life and had a great conversation with them! The situation could have ended in contention but we turned it into a great learning experience! We invited to pray as a family to know if these things are true. I know that the Spirit of God will testify to them these things are true, just like the spirit has taught me.
I love my Savior and this gospel. I am thankful for seminary where I could learn of these scriptures. I would challenge everyone to take seminary serious! The scripture masteries will help you so much in the future!! It seems unimportant but when you are in a situation where someone wants you to find a scripture to back up you belief you will be so thankful you know it!
Elder Coon
Me and my friend Eltin
the Martintucky crews playing ball. Elder Clark, Elder Coon,
Elder Quick, and Elder Palmer
we played a nurf war with elder clarks new nerf guns!
here is the day we got bedbugs:)
lost at uno...
I think I would look fly if I went tracting in them wouldn't you?
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