Exchanges and Miracles

 Monday Jan 6, 2020

Hey Everyone, I hope you all had a great week. This week has went by pretty fast and I mean really fast. However there was a lot of cool things that happened this week to talk about. One of the first Miracles of the week happened on Monday night. We had all of our plans fall through that evening and we were sitting in our car by a couple trailer homes trying to figure out what to do. After about 5 minutes went by a Truck pulled into the neighborhood. This truck turned around and the person inside started talking to us. His name is Jacob and we got to tell him our purpose as missionaries and got to meet with him and his family. It turns out that he is a part of a Part Member Household and we had a really great conversation with them. They are open to meeting with us and I really hope that it goes somewhere. We also had another Exchange this week with the Zone Leaders even though we see them like once a day it feels like. I went out with Elder Jager and got to work in their area. It was a lot of fun. At one point of the exchange I had to use the Bathroom so we decided to pull off on the side of the Road. Right as I was about to use the Bathroom I had to jump onto the side of the car because a Car came flying down the road. Hopefully they didn't see my nametag after that. We also had a bunch of Cows follow us around at one persons house and had a couple really good contacts with Potential Investigators.

Later on in the week we got to go to Bubba's with the other Elders who were on exchanges. Bubba's has to be one of the best Burger Joints in Gilmer and I highly Recommend getting the Monster Burger. It has a lot of meat on it and is a little pricey but it's worth the money. We also received a referral from the Elders about a Lady who wanted to come to church on Sunday. Well she did come to church on Sunday and really enjoyed it. We got to meet with her that Evening with her Mom as well and it was a very good visit. After having to deal with a couple negative experiences at church they are willing to listen to the message we have to share. We also went knocking doors earlier on Sunday and met someone named Keith. He has an Uncle who is a member who was not able to answer some of his questions so we answered them for him. He respected us coming by and accepted a Book of Mormon. The craziest thing that he told us is that since he has lived there for the past 12 years a Missionary has never knocked on his door before. Keith told us he will sincerely read and pray about the Book of Mormon before we come back.

Other than that we met with Gary Bradshaw last night as well. We will have to push his Baptism back a couple weeks but I think its best to help him live the Word of Wisdom. It is kind of sad to see my Mission coming to an end but I want to push as hard as I can for these last couple of weeks. Anyways I hope you all have a great week and I'll talk to you again soon!