SUCH A GOOD WEEK!!! Filled with little miracles here and there which led to us being able to find 6 new investigators this week! Literally a miracle! We worked so hard and are so excited to find where these people will go when we are able to see them in the coming weeks! Just an update on everyone else that we are teaching, more specifically Stew, Andrew, Wayne and Jack!
To first start off, Stew is someone that we were able to only sit down for 30 minutes with. He is a father of 3 boys that has a desire for something better for them and, before we came to his place, he had already read the Resto pamphlet that we had left with him and already wanted a Book of Mormon! He knew already that that was the key upon learning all of that was true! Good questions were given and we were able to answer them very clearly which led to him connecting the dots that he needed to read this great book! We were able to teach a 7 minute Resto and he is excited to learn more! SO EXCITING!!!
Andrew came to church this week! He is someone with a little bit of mental handicaps but his retention is just so good! We watched the Resto video with him this past week and, we tested out his retention and he explained perfectly what happened in the video! What’s even better!? HE SAYS HE KNOWS IT IS ALL TRUE!! The Book of Mormon! That Joseph Smith was called to be a prophet! Everything that we had taught him so far! We also had some great members that were able to pick him up and bring him to church this week! He said it was different and liked it! Also loved the members and we are expecting a baptismal date soon!!!! SO EXCITING!!! Reading is hard for him but he is able to grasp the main concept of the passages we leave with him!
Wayne we were able to meet with this past Saturday. He is progressing in reading the Book of Mormon and plans on taking it on his trip when he leaves for a couple weeks! Every time we go over he says "this just seems to line up more and more with what I believe!" So it is good that he is seeing the correlation! We plan on giving him a blessing this week as well, so that he can first off, witness the priesthood firsthand, as well as come to church this week! It will be a defining moment!
Jack had to go to Alberta again for his sister that is starting to pass away, but we are going to teach him this week! I am just so excited to be able to teach him this week though! He loves the Book of Mormon and loves the pamphlets that we leave behind with him. Last time we were with him we were able to give him the plan of salvation pamphlet and he said that he would read it. And, without a doubt in my mind, I know that he has read it at least once, maybe even more.
So things are going great! The members are catching the fire just a little bit more! Whether that be through mass texts to come out to lessons or them sharing little experiences with us.
Lets see, we were also able to go on exchanges this week! Elder Li and I just hit up those doors and HE ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!!! NOT! He thought it was so slow going door to door but we had some AWESOME MIRACLES!!! We dropped by the Sherwood’s and we were able to break out that little puzzle with the Plan of Salvation, (thanks mom :D)! Anyway, she sat at the table before her husband could even come and was able to put it in order for the most part. She literally said the things she had problems with, like the three kingdoms of glory and the spirit world, and before she knew it, after explaining it to her, she ended up on liking what we said! That it makes sense to her! That is until we hit brick wall that she has always had trouble with...Women having the priesthood...and she said right off the bat that she did not like it when we explained how men and women have separate roles and how she had heard that over who knows how many times... Well, we sat there and, long story short, the spirit brought to mind that men needed the priesthood in order to get to heaven and how women don't need to be ordained in the office of the priesthood in order to get to heaven...She literally just stopped right there and said, "That’s interesting...." CONFOUNDED! hahahah! So we are curious on where that goes next time!
All in all, it was great! Lots of fun and hopefully some new people to teach! Sure love and miss yall!!!
Love
Elder McCown
