This week was a really great one and a very good blessing!
Tuesday I went on transfers with a missionary in my district who is new to the mission field! We had a super great day! We went out to a members house (Elder H and I are still working on meeting the members here and gaining their trust) they were a pretty old couple and they are Navajo. Their son who is less active was there which was a plus but we talked with them and got to know them then we shared a really good lesson on the Atonement and on Repentance and what a great blessing it is. After we were done, all three of them asked for blessings because they are not doing too well healthwise. It was a great experience and I don’t remember what I said in the blessings but the spirit was VERY present. After that we had a visit with a less active family who is one of my favorite families here in the ward. It’s interesting because every week that we visit them they go to church. Our ward mission leader said we should start visiting them every week haha. After that we hurried out to H which is the farthest town in our area and saw our investigator who is married to a member that we have been working with. We had a great lesson on the Gospel of Christ and invited him to be baptized and he accepted and we set a date for February 19th. His wife is very excited.
Wednesday we met with more members and saw a couple of more less-actives. One of them is only less active because she has medical problems so we go to see her in a rest home every so often and she really appreciated the visit. We also met with a couple of our other investigators. A 9 year old girl and a 10 year old girl and we set a baptismal date with both of them too! They are sisters and their mom is a less active and so is their grandma and I’m not sure if their dad is even a member. But yes we set another 2 dates for Feb 18th! Sadly they did not come to church so we will be moving the date.
Thursday we went to another member’s house who we had received a call to go give her a blessing. We gave her a blessing for her back which has problems and then just talked with her and shared a message with her. The rest of our day was alright we did a lot of talking to people. But later that night we got a call from her and she left a voice mail and she thanked us for the blessing and said she has not had any pain in her back since the blessing and she talked about how great the priesthood is.
Friday we had interviews with president which went very well I suppose but by the time we got back and studied a little we didn’t have a whole lot of time. We went out to talk to people around Vons and we had something interesting happen! We were walking by the front doors and there was a guy sitting on the bench outside. He was all tatted up, he had a few piercings, and he was smoking. I walked up to him and introduced myself and gave him a card like I usually do and he said "yeah I’m a Christian too" I told him "that’s great! have you ever heard of the Book of Mormon?" he said he hadn’t so while I took a copy out of my backpack Elder H explained what it was and he got pretty excited and said we would definitely check it out. So I asked him if he would like it if we came over and shared some lessons and taught him more about the Book of Mormon and he said "yes! Do you need my address?" We got it and he said that we could come over anytime and that he AND his wife would love to learn!! It was really cool but sadly he is in the other missionaries area :( we didn’t get anything else done because we had to go back and weekly plan and eat dinner.
Saturday I had the great opportunity to drive an hour or so to the valley back to R to see T get baptized. It was a great baptism and he knows that he has made the right choice. After the baptism me and Elders H, H, N (H’s new comp), C, G, J (good friend of mine), and his companion went out to lunch and I went back to the old apartment to get some things I had left. We went back to good old Barstow and went to visit a couple more members.
Sunday was kind of tough because it was Super Bowl Sunday but we met with MORE members!! But anyways it was a really great week and we have some referrals we are going to visit this week and hopefully get about 6 new investigators. We taught about 14 lessons this last week. I’d just like you to compare that to how we were doing 3 weeks ago. I love you all and hope that you’re all doing great!
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