Area: Mansfield
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| Made it to the border of our mission |
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| And driving from home we hit a dirt road |
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| That cool old shop/restaurant with really good food we went to. |
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| Service last week- He left us alone for a while... |
Well to start off our teaching pool is filling in a hurry. I kept praying and praying for a miracle because I know if I'm in this area for this long there is obviously someone I need to be here for. I'm sure Elder Green was also praying for one as well and boy oh boy did we get one. For our Key indicators, we have three people who are now on date, we got 5 new investigators, and 5 people at church! It was so awesome!! The reason being all because of one miracle.
Last Thursday we had interviews with the Stratfords, then district meeting which was pretty good! On the way home we're cruising along when we got a text that said "is Joseph Smith in the bible?" "oh by the way this is Alycia!" I don't know if ya'll remember or not but Alycia is the one that me and Elder Brumfield started teaching and she was very close to baptism. So we basically got blown out of the water that she texted us in the first place then we went on to explain where in the bible it talks about a modern prophet being called. She asked a couple other questions then was like, oh well that makes sense. I would like to meet again but I'm not sure if my fiance will be okay with it but we'll set up a time and I'll tell him later. haha So we set it up for Saturday night. Long story shortened she texted us and was like well he is gone so bring a third male. So we did. We sat down and I couldn't believe how happy she looked. It was just insane. She began telling us what's been going on over the past few weeks and how a couple months ago when she dropped us she stopped reading the Bible and The Book of Mormon. She randomly decided to pick them up and her fiance saw her do it and was like "why are you picking those up it's not like you are gonna do anything with them anyways!" She turned around said watch me and walked out and started reading them!! She said she has been reading the Book of Mormon daily and praying to know if it's true daily. She said every time she picks it up she can't put it down. She has taken that as her answer. She also has been praying about the word of wisdom to know if it's true. Without trying she has stopped drinking tea, can't even (drink) a cup of coffee, when she used to drink a ton a day, and best part is that shes only (smokes?)25 percent of what she normally does. That is an answer to both hers and our prayers. What a huge miracle it has been to see how much the BOM has changed her life. Me and Elder Brumfield were pretty bold with her and because of that she knew where to turn to for truth, peace, and happiness. She and her son have accepted to be baptized on May 26th and also came to church this last Sunday and even brought a friend. Then Monday we had family home evening with the Andersons and her and her kids!! It was such a blast and a great way to spend a Monday night
Other than that high of the week the rest was still pretty awesome! Friday we got to do service at the Kecks again except this time we worked on his mowers and got to work with hydrolics which was cool. We sharpened blades and all that good stuff! After it was the best, they took us to this sweet little shop/restaurant that was built early 1900s not sure the exact day but it was awesome. The food was pretty dang good and then to top it off they had ice cream and we got some cones and one of the ice creams I got tasted like Moms home made ice cream cake. I was in heaven. Then when we got back to their house to top it off even more their son was there and he started showing us all his deer he's had mounted and guns and all that good stuff and after he hooked it up with like 8 lbs of deer meet at least. It was so sweet!
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| Venison burgers! They were so good! |
Everything else was pretty much the normal just going out and getting told no over and over again. Haha but still a great week! Hope ya'll had a wonderful week too and have an even better week this next one. Oh and it was an amazing week because it's finally getting warm! We hit 80 degrees yesterday! So that's a miracle I guess! Haha! Love ya!
Love Elder Smoot!
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