Hello!
I cannot believe
this week is already over! It seriously flew by. In fact, this whole
transfer has flown by! We are already on our last week. It's been a
great transfer though! It's also been a great week. A lot better than
last week:) We're getting our numbers back up.
Monday and Tuesday started the week off good! We had
dinner with a less-active family. The wife kind of laughed when we were
talking about living with God again... After we had a lesson with Sister
K. Tuesday was much too good! We went on a team-up with this
older guy who is around 80. We went and visited his less-active
friend. Next thing i know, he is, explaining in detail, his first time
getting a colonoscopy. This was years ago, before they changed it i
guess... It was pretty detailed, and his words and expressions he used
were quite interesting. Needless to say, i was laughing so hard that
tears were streaming down my face. Oh man, it was so hilarious! It was
his friend too, so he enjoyed the story too.
Friday and Saturday slowed things down a bit, but they were
both very fulfilling days. On Friday, we did our weekly planning and
were able to see a family called the G. The husband is very
less-active, but the wife is very solid! It was nice to visit with them
and have a dinner appointment. After we visited this 80 year old
Catholic lady who lives next door to us. She calls us her Mormon
grandson's. She calls her self our Mormon grandma. She is
awesome!
We taught her the restoration, and she said she agreed with
everything. She said she is too old and we aren't going to change her.
However, she's interested in learning more about our church. So we'll
see if she is too old to change... hehe. On Saturday we ran out of
miles for our car. So we decided to walk to the library. It ended up
being a 3 hour walk, and it was raining. I had an umbrella and Elder
Bowers didn't. I payed attention in scouts; always be prepared. As we
were walking, we made an effort to talk to as many people as possible.
We have these 2 activities we do called Friend 10, and Flood the Earth.
President Hinkley said that if missionaries would talk to 10 more
people a day, we would have 665,000 more convert baptisms a year. Flood
the Earth is to hand out 1 BoM a day. We were able to achieve and
exceed these goals. On our way back though, we had 1 more person we
need to talk to. This guy pulled over, and offered us a ride. When we
were in the car, he said that he saw us earlier waving to people but he
was on his way to work. As he was driving home he saw us again and
felt he needed to offer us a ride. We started talking to him and asked
if he knew anything about our church. He said he didn't know much, and
asked what our foundation was, and what we believed. We said we'd give
him the short version, but he said he could tell his wife he had to give
some guys a ride--meaning he wasn't on a time crunch. We pulled in the
parking lot we asked him to drop us off at, and we ended up teaching
him the restoration in his car! He accepted a BoM, and said we could
contact him. He said that he felt "enlightened" talking to us. The
Lord truly does bless you for your efforts. He always places people in
our paths that are ready to hear the restored gospel.
Sunday was great! We saw 3 less-active families, and had 3 less-actives come to church! It was a pretty good turn out!
I
love this gospel so much. I know that it is true, and it is in its
fullness. Jesus Christ loves us SO much, and is willing to take all of
our pain away. He will provide us with a change of heart. We just have
to be willing and follow him. This gospel is true, and i love sharing
it with those of PA. I love Heavenly Father, and learn more and more
each day how much he truly does love us, and how much he blesses us!
Have a great week. I love you!
Elder Birrell
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