Pretty solid week and hard work is definitely paying off. In our mission our mission president, President Stratford has what he calls weekly standards of excellence. He made a promise for miracles and blessings if we do all we can to meet these goals. First goal is at least 5 new investigators per week, then the next goal is to have two investigators on date to be baptized, and to always have 2 investigators at church. And a monthly goal of 1 baptism per month. He promised us that if we meet the first three weekly goals we would have 1 baptism per month. We have been working very hard to meet those. We went from last week only meeting one goal by getting 6 new investigators, which was hard because we worked very hard. But we decided to keep working hard. On Monday after pday we went and visited an investigator but they didn't answer so we went contacting. We got one new investigator that night. Then Tuesday we had exchanges and those went extremely well! I got to work with Elder Winn for the day, we got 3 new investigators before 4. We then had the opportunity to go to the hospital and give a member's nonmember relative who had been in a coma, a blessing. She called us from out of state and explained what was going on, so we met her relative who was in a coma, his mom, and his girlfriend and sister, all of which were non members, at the hospital. He was still unconscious and had just barley been taken out of the special bed. His lungs were very full of fluid. I had the opportunity to give the blessing and it was amazing to see how strongly the blessing is from the spirit. It's incredible! After they were very grateful and all teared up and said it was amazing. It was pretty awesome. We then had dinner with a member and ate some raw meatloaf which came back to haunt us later that night. Haha but after dinner we had a lesson with Jaimie and her son ended up joining and they both committed to being baptized September 30th! Pretty amazing! Wednesday we had district meeting studies and talked with people. Then we got to help someone move that had to be out that night. We helped them for the rest of the night. And then I got the best email saying that my nephew Swayde had been born! That was awesome! He's a pretty cute Lil guy! Thursday I don't remember if we got any new investigators but Brother Messer brought us some White Castle. Which apparently is known to also destroy you. He warned us but I also found that out for myself a little later that night.
White Castle
Friday- the night we got stranded in the ghetto. We have bro Burchetand pick us up for dinner and take us to Jaimie after, we were supposed to meet with her and another ward member that never showed up. But we ended up having her husband who was kinda against us at first join us and start to open up. It's amazing to see the change in people, he even is helping Jaimie to quit smoking! He's a pretty awesome guy! Hopefully he'll open up more someday. But after the lesson we soon realized that we didn't have a ride home and it was 8:15. We were an hour or so walk away from home stranded in the ghetto. Haha we started walking to a bus stop then realized elder Woodworth didn't have cash and all I had was a 20. So we went to the thrift shop on the way to a bus and they wouldn't trade it straight up so we had to buy something. So it was way cold and I had a short sleeve on so I bought myself a sweater! Haha kept me warm. And we got our two bucks that we needed. We ran to the bus and we were a couple minutes late. The next one came in 30 minutes. So we were like there's no way we'll be home on time. Then a bus came flying around the corner behind schedule and saved the day we got on.Then a guy got on and started yelling at the bus driver because the bus before missed him and then another guy started yelling at him for being ungrateful then they almost got in a fight. It was pretty crazy but nothing good happened. But we ended up making it right on time. The Lord definitely blesses missionaries.
His dirty back because he doesn't have fenders
Saturday-God definitely puts people in your path. We walked with this guy for half a mile maybe for him to tell us he wasn't interested. But we then turned around to come back and we saw a couple named Nicky and James who we kinda knew before but they never wanted to hear it. We ended up inviting them to church and they said they would so we found them a ride. We then went back to our apartment to grab our bikes and it started to rain. We went to meet with a new investigator who was drunk when we met her but we were supposed to meet Saturday. But she was tired and said to come back. I guess be careful with drunk investigators. We were soaked from the rain. It was pretty fun though! We ended up riding clear from one side of our area to brother burchetts on the opposite end and back. We were absolutely soaked and a little muddy. Mostly elder Woodworth was muddy tho! But that was a good day! .We did some good work.
Anthony!
Sunday came and it was the highlight of the week. We went to pick up Anthony, he wasn't there so we walked to Nicky's place. They weren't there. So we kinda lost hope then we got a call from an unknown number and it was Anthony! Telling us he was late but he was there! So got picked up by bro Grimes and went and got Anthony and gave Nicky another call and a guy answered saying she was getting ready for church! The guy ended up being a guy named Ricky who told us no on Tuesday. He came with her and they were picked up by another member! And Jaimie also got picked up! It was so cool! An amazing feeling! We got 4 investigators to church! They loved it! Ricky and Nicky looked like they got punched in the face by the spirit after haha it was pretty awesome! Anthony wants to join. Jaimie is even more excited! It was pretty awesome! Greatful that we met all of our goals this week and I hope Jaimie stays strong and stays on date for this month! I'm so excited for her and her son! Love this gospel! The church is true! Love you guys so much and hope you have a good week!
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