Week 35

This week was awesome, even though this area has struggled the past few years due to having office elders we have really seen progress. I've found that noticing the small things that happen every week that are miracles is crucial to missionary work. It's so important to notice the tender mercies of the Lord every day, otherwise it can be very discouraging. I haven't taught a real lesson in probably 7-8 weeks, but this weekend we were able to set up a few appointments and teach a lesson or two. Normally Silvia and her brother Sergio aren't home or available so we stopped by and helped them pick up their leaves. As we were picking up leaves we answered their questions about missionary work and their concerns about prophets and the church. It was a while since I've been able to teach someone and testify of truth, but it was like a jumpstart for me to have the chance to teach someone. We invited them to a church tour and to go to church, but Sergio was determined he would be watching the game by the time the Redskins started playing. We tried to tell him church ends at 12:45 and he could be back by 1 for the game, but no dice. Silvia and her BF said they would come, but when we knocked on the door in the morning they were out at breakfast and wouldn't be back until 4pm..... I'm not sure what's up with that.

Later that night we got to meet with a recent convert that moved into the ward, she is an awesome lady with tons of faith. She just moved here from Tallahassee and was baptized April 15th. She was previously Jewish, but the sister missionaries met her on campus and she said when she let her guard down they taught her. She went to a baptism to support someone else and as she was listening to the music and praying during the intermission she felt the holy ghost speak to her. Her story was so inspiring and the spirit in the room was so strong as she told her conversion story. We are going to start meeting her regularly to teach the new member lessons. She had a cat that was playing with us the whole time, elder Moran always has to get a selfie with the cats he meets so he got a good selfie.

Corey gave us some boar jerky, it's super good. The package says wild swine, therefore it must be good right? These little pepperoni sticks are bomb. Last night we recorded numbers with President and the AP's like usual but since today is presidents birthday we brought a cake and some ice cream and his family came into the office right after we ended the conference call. We hung out a bit and threw a tennis ball around the office, good times with P and the family. 

Brother Bold let us in one night to prepare for some splits and he brought in his cats. One is named Artemis but he calls him moose because he is sooo big. This cat weighs 30 lbs it is ridiculous. This is biggest cat I've ever seen. Brother Bold cut his hair in the back and on the tail because it can barely move so now it looks like a black lion.