Monday Oct 28, 2019
Hey everyone, hope you are all doing well. This week was great, in fact it was fantastic. I am not joking about that either. This last week we had a bunch of appointments set up for this next week which will be great for this area. There is a lot of potential here and I am hoping that the work goes forward. We had a couple small miracles happen this last week. The first one was actually quite surprising to me. There is a former in our area named Gary Jones who more or less can't make appointments work with us. We have tried setting up a lot of appointments with him but it never happens. I kind of gave up on him but we decided to knock on his door again yesterday and another house that he is usually at during the day. He was not there so we forgot all about it. Later in the day I felt impressed to check out an unknown member in our area. We are pretty sure it was not a Part Member Family but we decided to go over anyways. We knocked on the door and got nothing and we were about to be late for dinner. As I was about to get into the car an impression came to me to talk with someone a couple Trailers Down. We were about to talk with these people when Gary Jones came out of the Trailer. He was kind of shocked and thought we were spying on him with his phone but we told him that we were not. I believe it is a sign from God telling us not to give up on him. The fact that he was about 4 miles away from his apartment and that he doesn't have a car kind of blew my mind. I had something similar happen in my first transfer and saw it as a coincidence and not a miracle. What a fool I was then.
Another cool Miracle happened last night where we were going home and again were impressed to go over to an apartment complex. Elder Peabody told me there was someone we should talk to so we decided to go with that. Her name is Samantha and she was telling us that she and her husband are separated at this time and was going through some trials. She didn't say she would join the church but she did mention that she does confession every single week (Now if only we can help tie that in for her with the restored Gospel). We talked with her about her beliefs and surprisingly there is a lot of things she believes that are not with the Catholic Faith. I really hope that Samantha embraces the Gospel because we plan on meeting with her this evening to give her a Family Proclamation and The Living Christ Document. She is super sweet and hopefully members in the area will help her out. There was a lot of other small miracles that happened this week that I cannot recall other than being able to get Emily Permenters Phone Number. The Permenter Family is so prepared and I really hope that they will accept the Gospel and be baptized on or before December 7th. They have been to church over 8 times and are so awesome.
Other than that Transfer News came out and I am going to Gilmer! I wasn't sure what to think about this news because I would have loved to serve in Dallas but I am really excited to serve in this small town. I have also been called to serve as a District Leader so we will see how that goes. I am going to really miss Louisiana and all the members here but I'm really hoping to help Find, Teach and Baptize a Family while I am there this next transfer. There is a lot of work to do and I really wish I can be out on my mission Longer. Anyways I hope you all have a great week and I'll talk to you again soon!
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