Only missing one companionship at morning
sports so we snapped a picture.
Well this week was one tiring week.
Unfortunately Brother Fish (mailman) did not make it to
church this last Sunday so his baptismal date will have to be pushed back. We
were able to meet with him twice last week. We taught the plan of salvation one
of the times at the Visitors Center and the other lesson was at the scripture
study class elder Taylor and I do every Thursday also at the VC. Elder Taylor
and I go back and forth on who teaches each week and this last week was on
chapter 6-11 of the Book of Mormon. We talked about how to receive personal
revelation. It has been really fun being able to teach those every other week.
We received a bible referral and contacted them Monday
night. Well the referral was for a woman named Adrain Taylor and she let us
right in.
We walked into a bit of a shocking atmosphere for
Raytown, MO. When we came in the house was extremely tidy and clean. Not just
kind of clean but REALLY clean. That never happens. Elder Taylor, Josh Thieme
(Vegas Missionary) and I were all so pleased when we walked in. We told her
that her house is the cleanest house we had seen in a long time and we were so
happy to be there. We gave her the bible she requested and introduced the Book
of Mormon. Her niece was also there, Shae. As we taught the two of them Sister
Taylor said, "Y'all just invite such a strong presence into the room. WOW
I can just feel it in my stomach" *best words a missionary can hear*. She
is already religious and she was able to identify that feeling as the spirit
immediately. Shae wasn't quite as amped but that's ok.
We came back the following night and taught them again
but we also were able to invite Sister Taylor's two kids, Ronnisha and
Rannell, to join in with us. We invited the four of them to be baptized and they accepted! Unfortunately they were not able to make it to church this last
weekend.
:( But hopefully we will be meeting with them again tonight or
tomorrow. Nothing is set yet but she told us to call her today.
Elder Taylor will probably be transferred this week :(
hopefully I have a fun companion for the holidays and not a grinch like Erika
did. Haha. I am pumped for Thanksgiving this next week. We are
eating with our ward mission leader's wife's family. She is a Polynesian and they love food and they love family. We
were told to meet at the church building and expect about 150 people there with
the biggest spread of food you have ever seen. Polynesians really can make
quite the spread of food. So it should be sweet.
Proud of my perfectly made bed.
There was an awesome miracle in the zone this week! I was
on exchanges in the Inde 4th ward with E. Call on Thursday. There is an
investigator there named Allen Perrin who is such a nice guy but has been
investigating the church for 5 years now. He had various reasons for not
joining the church that were always changing. Well we went by to see him and had
a plan to invite him to be baptized two days later on Saturday. We talked about
the Doctrine of Christ and how he was procrastinating the days of his
repentance and missing out on the blessings. Well he told us that he was
waiting for his Mormon friend to be in town in December to do it. But after a
phone call to his friend and by the end of the lesson he accepted the
invitation and was baptized two days later! We were all in shock and awe at how
the Lord had softened his heart and how exciting it was to see Allen let the
spirit in.
I know that we can all have peace in our lives as we let
the spirit in. We have the power to choose between good and evil, happiness and
sorrow each day. Those choices are what lead us to Heavenly Father in the end.
What a blessing it is that the Lord has left it up to us.
Got to run!
Love
E. Kelly
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