Follow-up from last week. Vickie Taylor didn't end up getting baptized on Sunday because she just got super busy with her job and we couldn't get in contact with her. When we finally did she responded it was too late. She said she still wanted to get baptized so we pushed it to this next week for the 27th. A birthday baptism woot!!! Pray that she actually responds to us and gets ready for her baptism then!
This email might be boring to some if you're expecting a crazy cool funny experience but let me just forewarn you that it's much better! It's full of miracles! So bear with me here...;)
1. A guy I found on Facebook a few weeks ago started out SUPER crass and always dropping the f-bomb, etc. But we stayed consistent and he stayed willing to try. This past week we met up real quick to give him a Book of Mormon and he is anxious to learn! He is 19 and literally went from atheist to learning about God and knowing He is our creator and Father in Heaven. So if he doesn't initially believe in the church or gets confused with the anti he's recently gotten into, I consider that a win! As long as Heavenly Father is getting the credit then Walter will always have God's influence on him to choose the right!
2. We were calling in area book and found this guy Josh Smith. He is SO SICK. He is initially meeting with the missionaries to discuss religion because he is just curious. However, this past week he said that after receiving the Book of Mormon he was curious about it and literally had a natural draw to open up to Moroni.
What
TALKA BOUT THE SPIRIT RIGHT? I kinda smirked and was like "let me tell you why you felt drawn there..." Then we opened up to Moroni 10:4-5 and read Moroni's promise. He was super sincere and said that he would pray about the Book of Mormon! He is amazing and I'm praying he gets an answer!
3. We set a goal to find 3 new people this week which was already a HUGE stretch for me but with consistent work and lots of prayers and faith in Christ, we discovered the FAITH TO REAP and ended finding 5 new people to teach...here is a cool experience:
My zone has a goal to find 100 new people to teach for the next 6 weeks. That is about 20 people every week since we started a week late. On Sunday we had only found about 9 as a zone and the STLs sent out a text to everyone to say a pray RIGHT NOW and find someone new. I mean, isn't that always my goal? If I could just "choose" to find a new person I would! Well we obeyed and said a prayer and we had 5 mins left until lunch. I got up just thinking "I haven't taken a break yet today, I'll just start making my lunch." But then I thought, "How can God work miracles through me if I'm not working?" Well we called 2 people and literally at 11:59 I had a thought to call this one guy Isaiah who we had called before but our schedules weren't lining up. He answered, we began to talk, and 30 mins later we taught him about the Book of Mormon and addressed some of his concerns regarding polygamy, eternal marriage, the bible, etc. He opened up about his desire to stop drinking and his want to reestablish his life better. He has been lonely during quarantine and needs some more purpose. HE'S GOLDEN!!
Anyways...my companions and I have been blessed this week! There was a 3-day period where we had 29 lessons total and about 17 of them were with nonmembers! The work is moving forward here!!
Thanks for making it this far;) u the real champ
Love you guys!
Elder Gardanier!!!
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