This week was
really good. I just want to tell you about one thing. We had a District
Challenge this week where we had to talk to people and count how many
Tracts we give out, and how many return appointments we get, and how
many songs we sing to people (scary I know, I actually sang to people.
Don't worry, nobody's ears started bleeding)
So while we were doing this we had a few miracles happen.
#1
We met a man named Chris who is from Pennsylvania. We taught him about
the Book of Mormon and he was pretty excited about it. We are going to
teach him the restoration on Thursday. The Miracle is that he is from
America haha, but he is the nicest guy.
#2 We knocked on a
door and the guy came out to Bible Bash. He has heaps of questions
perfectly phrased to throw us off. Lucky for us I had met a man a few
days before who roasted me for not carrying the Holy Bible, only the
Book of Mormon. He asked me why I was ashamed to carry the Bible.
Anyways after talking to that man I decided I would take my bible with
me every where I go (its with me now just in case you wanted to ask) So
when this guy came out to bible bash I just opened my bible and invited
him to show me what he was talking about. anyways his heart was softened
and we answered a few of his questions with scriptures from the bible.
Long story short (and it was a very long story, this guy had heaps of
questions) we set up a return appointment for Thursday because he wants
to do some studies on his own. Hopefully his heart stays soft and we can
teach him why we needed a restoration.
#3 We met Mike. He is
a less active who we didn't know lived there (it was funny we started
to teach him the plan of salvation when he opened the door and he
stopped us by saying "I know.... I am a Member. Do you guys wanna come
in?" So we found out that Heavenly Father had sent us to him. His
Daughter just was admitted to the hospital the night before. we talked
about Heavenly Father reaching out to him and he told us that is seems
like every time a big trial comes up in his life, he receives a
mysterious visit from the Missionaries. Anyways we committed him to read
the Book of Mormon everyday so that he can have the power that the Book
of Mormon brings in his life, and then he committed himself to come to
church.
in all we found 5 new investigators
during the 4 hours the challenge took place. It was a great day. Oh,
about singing to people... Elder Tusa taught me to sing I am a Child of
God in Samoan, so that is what we sing when people say we can. This lady
opens the door and immediately says shes not interested. Elder Tusa
asks if there is anything we can do for her and she says no. The he says
"are you sure you dont want us to sing for you" to which she replied
that we can sing for her. So we sang it and then she asked for the
translation. We sang it again (in english this time) and she said it was
a beautiful song and asked us to write the words down for her. So even
tho we didn't get to teach her anything, we still got to share the
gospel with her in some small way. It was really awesome.
Thats all for this week. Love you heaps hope this week is the best one yet. Alofa ia oe
Elder Mitchell
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