(sorry I wanted to make a nice title for my mission friend without a hat) - inside joke
Hello!
So many exciting things have happened this time round.
We have been finding a lot more people than we usually do, but I will only talk about the promising ones today.
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| These aren't all my groceries...a lot of food. |
There is a college student who referred himself to us a little over a week ago, but he gave us very little information in his background. We were suspicious that this person might have malicious intent for us. We investigated where he lived and tried to look at our past records to see if we had any information from previous missionaries in the area about this person's address, but this is a college town and there are lots of move ins and outs constantly, so the records we did have are incorrect most of the time.
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| We Had to Rake a Lot of Leaves |
Eventually we gave it up and just went straight to their door and rang the door bell and to our surprise a young man opened the door and immediately invited us in. So we were thinking "uh oh, this guy is going to Anti us and we are going to miss our appointments because they always beat around the bush". But much to our astonishment he wanted to know more about Christianity. He wasn't even the guy we were looking for!
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| I wasn't kidding. It was a lot of leaves |
This young man had been raised in another faith and had spent about a year in America. To him the thought of Christianity always made him curious. It also helped that the person we were looking for (his roommate) was interested in learning more about our church because all of his friends who came with him from his country, went to either BYU Provo or BYUI and had good things to say about the members there.
So let's recap. The guy we were talking to was not the man we were looking for. But he was interested because of the interest in the church of the man we WERE looking for. This man we were looking for was very interested because of what his friends have told him about the example of the saints of the church.
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| Zone Conference Pictures |
This reminds me of one of the videos we showed to some members recently. It is about a mother who has things on her list to accomplish for the day, but because we are human beings life has different plans for us. As we follow the example of Christ others will see the difference it has made in our life, and much like our friend from another land, people will want that difference in their lives as well.
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| Fun Times at a Restaurant |
“You never know how much good you do.”
Our two people on date for baptism may not make it to be baptized this Saturday. It's sad, but true. We have been plowing through all the lessons we need to teach them so that they could make it, but the last lesson they had with us erased all doubts, they are not ready. The biggest reason, they don't believe in prophets, especially Joseph Smith. 
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| More Zone Conference |
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We have made plans to help revive their date but we feel like they have a long way to go now. In the Lords time they will be ready for baptism again.
Sorry, we have had a lot on our plate today, I wanted to talk about a little more, but I don't have the time.
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Ya gotta love the pictures.
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| Last One |
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