November 7, 2016 
Monday we spent Halloween deep
cleaning our apartment!
Wednesday we had Mission Leader Conference
which was great. It was so cool to hear about all of the things that we can do
to help our fellow missionaries and how we can all be the best that we can. A
big topic of the meeting was baptism and what it symbolizes. Then we talked a
lot about the doctrine of Christ and how we can apply it in our own lives. We
have a new mission vision as of this last transfer which is "we will act
to teach repentance and baptize converts to fulfill the potential the Lord has
for us" and that has meant a lot to me.
The rest of our day was also pretty
good. We hit up Applebee’s and got some lunch, thanks my companion and his
Applebee's card then we had a couple lessons. Norman also came along to teach
and it was awesome. First lesson was Jennifer and we talked about prayer a lot
and how she can have better prayers to talk to God. She is really great and her
testimony is growing so much! If she comes to church these next 2 weeks she is
set for baptism!
Then we say Kathy and talked about
Mosiah 18. She is also doing really well and she has a big testimony of the
Book of Mormon and that God is there. We also saw Brother Cranney who is
working through a lot of personal stuff but we promised him that if he would
read the Book of Mormon every day that Bod would help him with those
problems.
We didn't have a ton of teaching
Thursday which was ok... We were able to get our weekly planning done and that
was awesome. We should be doing a lot of finding coming up here soon so that we
can regrow our teaching pool. That evening Brother Heilesen took us to Tappahannock
for an exchange and so that I could do a baptismal interview there. The interview
went great and Mike Morris was baptized Friday.
Friday We saw Bruce who is great. He
has been doing a lot better in his health and I love going over there.
Later that evening we saw Paul and he
was awesome. He is building a temple in minecraft and its ‘gonna be so cool
haha. Then tonight we had a lesson with Bruce and Genita and we took Bruce to
see them. That was so cool and he shared an awesome testimony of how he came to
know the Book of Mormon is true. It was great and they were really into it and
said they would possibly come to church sunday.
Saturday morning we had zone meeting.
It was good and I gave a training on the process of repentance. Then after that
we went to the Thai place and got lunch and it was super good. We tracted and
contacted people most of the afternoon and were able to talk to Bo who is a
good potential. He was really into the restoration and then his girlfriend came
in and kinda took the spirit haha but we are going back, no worries.
That night was crazy so we tracted
into this lady named Lynn. She was awesome but not interested at first. Well we
got talking to her and she said she liked God but not religions because they
had all been changed. Well we asked her, if she could have the church of Lynn,
what would it be? And she said a couple things and imagine this... everything
she said lined up with something we teach! Who woulda guessed!
Well after that all of our plans
kinda fell through so we went to see Norman. He couldn't talk so we were
leaving and pulling out car out and as soon as I hopped in this car pulls up
next to us and this big black guy starts yelling to us. His name was Travelle
and he was having a tough night. He was from the west side and had relapsed
after being clean for 3 years. He hadn't been home in 2 days, his wife was
upset and he really needed help. So we took him to Arby's and bought some food
and had a lesson haha what else would we do right? It was unreal. We shared the
plan of salvation with him because he was really struggling with why God lets
people die. It touched him and calmed his spirit. He accepted to read the Book
of Mormon and to have the missionaries over. Then he left. We haven’t heard
from him since and are praying he is ok. I know we were there to help him know
God watches
Sunday was pretty good as well. We
went to a baptism in Bon Air for Troy Vargasen. I was a major part of his
conversion process. Jennifer didn't come to church but Kathy did! And we saw
Kathy that night and had a lesson going over the baptism. She is going to have
to have an interview with out mission president but it should be ok and we are
planning on her baptism in a couple weeks!
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