The weeks here in Coquitlam just keep on getting better and better! To start off we have 2 progressing investigators! SO EXCITING!!! Wayne has made progress since last week in reading the Book of Mormon. He also jumped through hoops to try and convince himself that it was possible for Joseph Smith to see Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. He researched it and kept on researching it and found the evidence for himself! He is so good! Great intent! The only struggle is getting this guy to church...He had throat surgery about 1 1/2 months ago and is still recovering. He is also on a fixed schedule so him changing it to come to church is really hard for him because he works a late shift and does not normally wake up until 12.
Jack has progressed! We met with him this past week and he had read the Restoration pamphlet two times before we came over! He was prepared with questions and his progress is going smoothly! As we were there we retaught the restoration and he readily agreed with it all, even saying that he knew that it was all true! The invitation to be baptized made sense to him, and it was all flawless up until the point that he gave us his concern, and that is that he had a childhood experience with water, and has never gone fully under ever since. So hopefully that hurdle is overcome soon!
Crazy cool miracle we had as well! We were meeting up with a less active named Brian. Super nice guy but is not in the best place. He basically got thrown into a house with 8 other people who do drugs and drink all the time. Anyway, we go and knock on the door and this guy answers, tells us straight up that we are at the wrong place, and he was being a bit of a jerk about it, and is about to close the door. That’s when I put my foot in the door, tell him off for being a jerk about it and ask him where Brian is. Well...that, did not happen...I was a good Mormon boy and took it and politely asked where he was, and he kind of stood there, and said to hang on so he could go get him. So Brian comes out and we start talking outside, and I notice that the guy at the door is out on the balcony listening to what we were saying. I reached out and asked what his name was and, cause I could not hear him, he decided to come down and talk with us. Well we figure out that this guy’s name is Ernie...Well Ernie just goes off about the bible, the trinity, and how he just loves God and, he even kind of bashed on us. Can I just say that I love Brian? Once Ernie calmed down and spilled his beans, Brian straight up told him to listen to what we had to say...So he shut up and listened! Long story short, after numerous bible references and teaching the most beast restoration lesson, this guy, who readily admitted at the end of our discussion that he did not want to talk to us even though he did not know anything about us, hugged us, and now has a Book of Mormon and a restoration pamphlet, is excited to read it, and says to come by whenever! BAM! God is just so good!
So yeah beast week! God is great, the book of Mormon is good, and people are crazy.
Love yall!
Elder McCown
