Interesting Adds at the train station. #Awkward
The District
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Good day last Monday. I had a suit ordered in. Ted, a guy in Philly, owns a suit shop and absolutely loves the missionaries and seriously hooks them up. I have bought one suit from him and now will soon own another. Spent our preparation day in Philly. I love that city. So much cleaner and nicer than Camden. Haha Camden is a dump but I love the crap out of it.
We taught a new investigator, Maria Borbón. While we were there, we met Iris, who also lives there. Good solid people. While we were there we only had like 10 minutes because we were a little late, so we taught how God is our Father and how the Gospel blesses families. Good stuff. Iris knows the bible pretty well and we love that. Good stuff. We will see how things go from that. Ok, so we leave Maria's house. It starts raining buckets. Like we are soaked. Plus we see lightening everywhere. Like super close. Kind of scary. We said a prayer of safety, and after waiting a few minutes, set out for the church. We saw lightening super close! Not hitting the ground, but nonetheless close. We got to the church for our next lesson, but completely soaked. Plus on the way, we looked down and saw a bunch of $1 bills. Smelled like it was made it of marijuana. Like someone rolled their weed in these dollar bills. So we used it to buy us some Mexican sweet bread and cheese. Good stuff.
Ok lesson with Marco. Progressing with a date of August 10 to be baptized. Probably our most solid investigator. He gets it. He used to drink a ton and has basically stopped. He has seen the change that his friend, who is a member, has gone through and he wants the same thing in his life. We taught about faith, repentance, baptism, confirmation, and enduring to the end. He loved it. He is reading and praying and everything. He came to church this past Sunday. The Spirit was strong and he is well on his way to being baptized on August 10. I love having prepared investigators to teach!!!! It makes being a missionary that much more gratifying. We will continue to do our part and hope, pray, and have faith that Marco will continue to do his!
Thursday we saw Marco again. He is super prepared. About a month ago the missionaries asked him when he was gonna start coming to church. He said not until he quit drinking, which was never. He always came and played soccer with the missionaries and members of the ward. Well two weeks later he started meeting with the missionaries because he wants to change his life. He has a solid friend in the ward. We taught him the plan of salvation today. Went super well. We identified the Spirit. He knows it. He will be baptized on August 10th. Super stoked for that. That will be my second to last Sunday here in the mission. Sad day. Teardrops. Love this place. Super weird that it is ending so
soon. Don't like it.
Well Friday we had a cool experience. So we have this member named Kevin medina. He is 23 and preparing to go on a mission. We always go over to his families house to eat on Fridays. Well after the appointment he gave us a ride to our next appointment. This is where the deception comes in. We get there, then say, "Hey, we need a man to come out with us to this appointment... Thanks for coming with us Kevin!" He was kind of indifferent about it, but during the lesson he bore a strong testimony of the Book of Mormon and the effect it has had on his life and others. Afterwards, he said that he really liked it. He wants to come out with us every Friday now after we eat. The Spirit touches both investigators and members alike.
Today Elder King and I sang in sacrament meeting. We sang a mashup of "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" and "I Am a Child of God." Went super well. I played and we both sang. I have really developed in arranging songs. We started signing in C Sharp, then did a key change into E flat. I did most of it just out of my head. Haha that's why The Lord put me with Elder Minnich. Anyway, it went super well and we invited the Spirit into the room. It was super good. During church, the bishop came up to us and presented to us a young woman named Claribel. She has apparently been coming to mutual for a while, is a friend of a recent convert, and basically the bishop brought her to us and told us to teach her and set a baptismal date. We love referrals like that! We are excited for what is going to happen there.
Well there's Elder Dial's week. Sorry. Not coming home in August. I refuse. I love the crap out of all of you. This work is true! Christ lives. You know that's right.
Elder Dial
We taught a new investigator, Maria Borbón. While we were there, we met Iris, who also lives there. Good solid people. While we were there we only had like 10 minutes because we were a little late, so we taught how God is our Father and how the Gospel blesses families. Good stuff. Iris knows the bible pretty well and we love that. Good stuff. We will see how things go from that. Ok, so we leave Maria's house. It starts raining buckets. Like we are soaked. Plus we see lightening everywhere. Like super close. Kind of scary. We said a prayer of safety, and after waiting a few minutes, set out for the church. We saw lightening super close! Not hitting the ground, but nonetheless close. We got to the church for our next lesson, but completely soaked. Plus on the way, we looked down and saw a bunch of $1 bills. Smelled like it was made it of marijuana. Like someone rolled their weed in these dollar bills. So we used it to buy us some Mexican sweet bread and cheese. Good stuff.
Ok lesson with Marco. Progressing with a date of August 10 to be baptized. Probably our most solid investigator. He gets it. He used to drink a ton and has basically stopped. He has seen the change that his friend, who is a member, has gone through and he wants the same thing in his life. We taught about faith, repentance, baptism, confirmation, and enduring to the end. He loved it. He is reading and praying and everything. He came to church this past Sunday. The Spirit was strong and he is well on his way to being baptized on August 10. I love having prepared investigators to teach!!!! It makes being a missionary that much more gratifying. We will continue to do our part and hope, pray, and have faith that Marco will continue to do his!
Thursday we saw Marco again. He is super prepared. About a month ago the missionaries asked him when he was gonna start coming to church. He said not until he quit drinking, which was never. He always came and played soccer with the missionaries and members of the ward. Well two weeks later he started meeting with the missionaries because he wants to change his life. He has a solid friend in the ward. We taught him the plan of salvation today. Went super well. We identified the Spirit. He knows it. He will be baptized on August 10th. Super stoked for that. That will be my second to last Sunday here in the mission. Sad day. Teardrops. Love this place. Super weird that it is ending so
soon. Don't like it.
Well Friday we had a cool experience. So we have this member named Kevin medina. He is 23 and preparing to go on a mission. We always go over to his families house to eat on Fridays. Well after the appointment he gave us a ride to our next appointment. This is where the deception comes in. We get there, then say, "Hey, we need a man to come out with us to this appointment... Thanks for coming with us Kevin!" He was kind of indifferent about it, but during the lesson he bore a strong testimony of the Book of Mormon and the effect it has had on his life and others. Afterwards, he said that he really liked it. He wants to come out with us every Friday now after we eat. The Spirit touches both investigators and members alike.
Today Elder King and I sang in sacrament meeting. We sang a mashup of "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" and "I Am a Child of God." Went super well. I played and we both sang. I have really developed in arranging songs. We started signing in C Sharp, then did a key change into E flat. I did most of it just out of my head. Haha that's why The Lord put me with Elder Minnich. Anyway, it went super well and we invited the Spirit into the room. It was super good. During church, the bishop came up to us and presented to us a young woman named Claribel. She has apparently been coming to mutual for a while, is a friend of a recent convert, and basically the bishop brought her to us and told us to teach her and set a baptismal date. We love referrals like that! We are excited for what is going to happen there.
Well there's Elder Dial's week. Sorry. Not coming home in August. I refuse. I love the crap out of all of you. This work is true! Christ lives. You know that's right.
Elder Dial
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