Hey Everybody!
So this week was surely something special!
We had a baptism!! Steffanee is a 19 year old who was dating one of the bishop’s sons a while back. One day she just was curious about our church so she called the bishop and asked if she could attend our church to see what was what, so she ended up coming for 5 months straight! And then she wanted to meet with us, so naturally we met with her! It was awesome from the first lesson to the last! She just soaked in the Gospel like a sponge! It was awesome!
So this week also we taught a man named Michael! How we found him was a kind of funny story! We were getting new phones so we had to switch the contacts over from one phone to another. You can only switch 300 contacts, and we had 394. So we went through all the contacts that were former investigators who just didn’t get deleted from the phone and called each and every one of them. If they weren’t interested or didn’t answer we deleted their numbers, but if they were interested, like Michael, we set up an appointment! Anyway, we show up to his place and we start teaching the first lesson. About halfway through I had the feeling that I needed to invite him to be baptized on May 25th. So naturally I resisted a little bit, but the thought was there and I couldn’t deny it. So yeah at the end of the lesson, we tacked on a little bit about baptism, and I invited him to that day. And he said yes!! It was the best feeling ever to have listened to a prompting and follow through with it, and now he's working toward baptism!! It’s awesome being a missionary, I love it!
Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Pickett
So this week was surely something special!
We had a baptism!! Steffanee is a 19 year old who was dating one of the bishop’s sons a while back. One day she just was curious about our church so she called the bishop and asked if she could attend our church to see what was what, so she ended up coming for 5 months straight! And then she wanted to meet with us, so naturally we met with her! It was awesome from the first lesson to the last! She just soaked in the Gospel like a sponge! It was awesome!
So this week also we taught a man named Michael! How we found him was a kind of funny story! We were getting new phones so we had to switch the contacts over from one phone to another. You can only switch 300 contacts, and we had 394. So we went through all the contacts that were former investigators who just didn’t get deleted from the phone and called each and every one of them. If they weren’t interested or didn’t answer we deleted their numbers, but if they were interested, like Michael, we set up an appointment! Anyway, we show up to his place and we start teaching the first lesson. About halfway through I had the feeling that I needed to invite him to be baptized on May 25th. So naturally I resisted a little bit, but the thought was there and I couldn’t deny it. So yeah at the end of the lesson, we tacked on a little bit about baptism, and I invited him to that day. And he said yes!! It was the best feeling ever to have listened to a prompting and follow through with it, and now he's working toward baptism!! It’s awesome being a missionary, I love it!
Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Pickett
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