Busy Week - Lots of Teaching

This week was probably one of the busiest weeks I have been a part of. We started off the week playing some good kickball, nothing too crazy. We had an all-day zone conference, which somehow I got signed up to conduct. It was amazing, as always, to hear the wise words of President Dymock. He also trained us on how Christ accomplished the Atonement by using multiple dimensions. Needless to say I was scooping my brains up off the floor after the meeting. We also had a stake coordination meeting with the stake presidency and President Dymock. On top of that, Elder Nickerson and I were asked to speak in Sacrament meeting. There was a lot to keep us busy this week!

Now for the part that I actually enjoy - we got to teach a lot of people this week. We had dinner with the Hassnawi family at a member of the Stake Presidency's house. We taught about prophets and the Bible. Things are going really well with them. They didn't get to church this week, but we are hoping for next week.

Larry B - he is the man! We taught him the Word of Wisdom and he immediately surrendered all of his alcohol, coffee, and tea. (Elder Nickerson is 21, don't worry.) So we disposed off all of it. He had his baptismal interview with a member of our mission presidency due to his questionable past and was cleared for baptism. Also another plus ...  Larry hasn't smoked anymore meth. We need to get this man the gift of the Holy Ghost stat!

The Poitra boys are still doing well. We had a member bring them to church; they slept through all of sacrament meeting but loved primary and young mens. 

Sweet story of the week: I was on exchanges with my old pal Elder MacDonald; he was a former assistant to the president and now is a district leader in our zone.  We had a goal to find 3 new investigators this week. It was Friday and we had 0. We had only one available hour in our schedule. So we prayed and prayed our guts out. We went to check up with a former investigator who we lost contact with. We caught her at the right time. She was a Jehovah's Witness for a long time. She said she really regrets raising her kids that way because they turned out weird, haha. Anyway, we taught her and she was pretty moved by the Joseph Smith story. She asked us to come back on Monday and said that she will read the Book of Mormon. We called her yesterday to confirm our appointment for tonight. As we talked, she was like, "Oh and by the way, I went to your church this morning with Sandra (one of the less-active members)."  She attended a neighboring ward on her own! I was pretty floored. Cool little miracle there. :)

We have 8 people on date for baptism and the ward is getting all excited. They also liked our Sacrament meeting talks yesterday. We got invited over for a bunch of dinners right after. It is nice to see some member excitement. The first month was rough with the members. Don't worry though, we'll get em.  

-E.Rapier

She actually seems quite interested

Elders Nickerson and Rapier with Larry