We had a multi-zone p-day last week! We had a big sand volleyball tournament in the freezing cold 40 degree weather! It was fun! After we went and played soccer and basketball.
We have had some interesting tracting experiences the past few weeks. We have been kicked out of 4 neighborhoods in 4 weeks! Haha! That has to be a record or something. Satan sure has some crazy ways to try and slow us down! What is crazy is before we run into the haters we always find a someone we can teach! On Thursdaywe found 2 new investigators in this neighborhood near a recent convert. After we found the people we tracted right into a hater and he was going to call the cops on us... but we talked him into calling President Cleveland instead haha. We have made a little note in the area book so the next set of missionaries don't run into him and get arrested or something haha.
So get this... We found two guys named Robert last week. We went back to them and found out that both their wives are pregnant. One of the Roberts wife is named Brandi. We tracted into another family on Saturday, Brandi and Uriah, and Brandi is pregnant as well! Wow it has been so confusing trying to keep them all straight when we are planning haha. But these 3 families have been huge miracles!
Brandi and Uriah are so awesome! They have 2 sons and one more baby on the way. Neither of them have much background in religion, which is strange because people here are so religious. They have so much potential! We have some high hopes for them.
We had a great lesson with Chris this last week! She is on date for April 30th. She was out of town last week and most of this week she has been sick. But we taught her on Saturday and she is studying and praying! She is a bit nervous that she won't be prepared, but I know that as she is diligent she will make her date in 3 weeks! Pray for her that she will be ready!! I am so excited for her!
On Saturday Kelly is getting baptized! Her mom will wait a few more weeks to be baptized herself, but Kelly is so ready! We will take pics of the baptism for you guys!
On Friday I went up to Franklin to interview a boy for baptism. The family was so funny! They fixed us dinner and let me ride their hoover board! AH those things are so sick! I was flying all around their driveway on it:)) when I get home I am going to steal Annies and Hannahs :) He passed the test and was baptized the next day!
This Thursday we are going on exchanges with the APs again. This will be my second time:) I love going out with them because we always see miracles! The first exchange I ever went on as a missionary was with AP Hackney. I was only 2 weeks out and we found a lady who was so prepared we invited her to be baptized! Haha so I can't wait for Thursday to go out with Elder Mortensen!
Sorry I didn't send any pictures home again this week but I will send them next week I promise! I have a good amount of pictures to send haha.
Alberta came to church on Sunday! Three weeks in a row! We have been teaching her for almost 5 months now. Her set back for getting baptized has been the priesthood authority and apostasy. She hasn't been able to understand that through Joseph Smith the priesthood was restored, and only our church has the authority to do so. No matter what we said she didn't understand it. We taught her, the members tried getting her to understand, but just couldn't get it. But on Sunday during the gospel principles lesson THE LIGHT BULB IN HER MIND FINALLY CLICKED! She turned to me said, "Wait, so since the apostles of Christ were all killed the priesthood was not on earth until God restored it again through Joseph Smith?" YAY! We then explained how dispensations and apostasies worked (again). It was a miracle! At church we can receive answers to our prayers! We are praying that now she will be baptized by that authority that only our church has :)
Joe came to mutual! The young men have really clung on to him! We are so happy because for a while there we just felt like he was stagnant but hopefully this will motivate him some more.
We have a relief society activity night on Wednesday night and we are hoping to get all the ladies we teach there! No lie we teach so many ladies! Chris, Aberta, Janet, Gigi, and Karie. Haha it is actually pretty funny how many we have.
"Remember who you are and what God expects you to become."
"The Lord will make more out of your life than you can on your own."
Love you!
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