My Son Wants To Meet You

Another good ole week in Coquitlam! Even though we have seen a HUGE drop in teaching this past week we still saw miracles! We have been hitting the pavement hard and we have been just working so hard, and it has been so good even though it can be hard to see the silver lining in all things. It was so good though! We were able to find yet another person for the sisters to teach! AND IT IS PERFECT! We just had a baptism this past week and it is this lady named Maliheh. Well, she only speaks Farsi and broken English but she loves the gospel! WELLLL! We were able to find this lady that has basically the same situation as Maliheh! What is even better is that Shayla (the lady that we knocked on) has already read half of the Book of Mormon and has a pretty good idea it is true, and she is from Iran which is where Maliheh is from! That and she believes our doctrine! God is just so good and we cannot wait to hear how Maliheh's testimony will grow because of this! It is such a tender mercy because Maliheh gets to exercise her testimony right off the bat! God is just so good!

Other than that, Elder Beck and I were able to see some miracles on our exchange. It was so cool! We knocked onto this Iranian ladies door. Well she just started off by asking "Why are you doing this?" "Such a waste," ya know, all that fun stuff. Well, as she was about to close the door her son Sepehr walked by and asked "Are you Mormons??!" And that opened a good conversation with him! We stated our purpose and he was uneasy about it, and said no. We then said good bye and started walking away. Well, after we were down there steps, we hear them open the door and they offer water and fruit. Well, he still was not interested, but we were able to build some good trust. We then proceeded to go down the road even further. Well, long story short we finish the street and not knowing where the next street was we proceeded to the car, and just as we got to the car we saw that we had passed the road along the way. We start heading towards the road and all of the sudden we see the Iranian lady drive up and say, "My son wants to meet with you!" Well we freaked out (in a very professional way of course)! We got all the info and as we were walking away, I imagined just how many different ways she could have taken to leave, as well as the different amount of spots we could have been in that could have easily lead to her not driving by us. I am just so thankful that it worked out that way!

We were also able to see a member doing his missionary work! And it is actually a less active! He invited his friend to church and we are seeing them this Tuesday!

So needless to say, we have seen a lot of progress. It honestly was the best week I have had here and it just keeps on getting better and better!

Love

Elder McCown