This was fantastic week. Man it was busy as ever. But it was a very satisfying enjoyable week. I am in Ridgefield, Washington. If you have ever heard of that I would be surprised, because it is tiny. It is a big farming area. It is a little farming town but it is sweet.
Monday was great Pday we had to cut it off early because we had a lesson with some less actives. They fed us a feast. It was awesome! Right after that we headed over to Brandon's house. Brandon is a single dad with a seven year old son named Mason. We taught him the plan of salvation and when we invited him to be baptized he had tears coming down his face. It was sweet. He said he didn't feel ready to be baptized. Funny thing about Brandon is that the very first time I met him he looked familiar. I know I was supposed to find him. We had a bunch of teaching in the evening. We then headed over to a members house. They invited a friend to take the lessons. We taught the restoration and it seemed to go pretty well. That was a sweet miracle teaching in a members home!
Tuesday was a normal day but later that day just seemed that we were in the right place at the right time. We stopped by a few less active who weren't home, but the Lord was putting us in the place where we needed to be. It was sweet.
Wednesday we had a zone meeting and it seemed to go really well. When it goes smoothly it make life easier. After that we had an exchange. I stayed in Pioneer and we had a very busy night. We went to teach a less active member and we taught her boyfriend as well. He seemed pretty interested so that was a good start to the lessons. After that we headed across the area for another appointment and shortly after that appointment we had another appointment. This one was with Brandon. We took him to the family history center at the church to work on his family history. He absolutely loved it. He started punching in his family that he knew and then all of a sudden he found somebody that had a lot of work done and he could trace his line back to the 1000's. What a great resource that was for us!
Thursday was pretty normal. Nothing too out of the blue happened. We see miracles every single day. It is sweet that the Lord is blessing us in our time here in this area.
Friday we had another lesson with Brandon and he committed to a baptismal date!!! He committed to April 29 to be baptized!!! Woo hoo!!
Saturday we watched the first session of conference with Brandon. It was a really good session. We watched the second session at our ward mission leader's house because all of our other plans fell through. It was a great conference and we learned a ton. Funny thing about conference is that Brandon was talking to us later and we only were going to watch one conference with him but he actually ended up watching all of them. It was awesome!!! He told us later. He was quoting the statistics and we thought, “Wait, you watched the second session?” It was just funny.
Sunday was great as well. We watched another session with Brandon and it happened to be the one where the speaker talked to the nonmembers. So how cool is that!! Brandon leaned in and was attentive and now every time we teach, bring him to church, or invite him to do anything he always has that look in the eyes that the gospel is changing him!
Peace! ️ ✌
Elder Astle
No comments:
Post a Comment