Hope that you had a wonderful and safe Christmas and New Years! I simply cannot believe that it is 2018! Which I'm excited about because it is what we call our black out year! I will be a missionary for all of 2018! So excited to see what this year has instore! I'm sure everyone is wondering how the week went so lets get started! Sorry this email is a little bit longer but I couldnt decide what experences I wanted to put in this email so I just put all of them in. Haha. We Gained 3 new investigators this week and they are doing good! Here is litle bit about each of them!
On Christmas Eve we tracted into this single mom named Brittany. We introduced ourselves and scheduled a return appointmet to come back and meet with her that Wednesday. Wednesday came and we ended up teaching her the restoration. It blew our minds to see how Intrested she was to hear our message. She kept telling us that this is the peace that she was looking for. We invited her to be baptised on the first lesson and she accepted! What an amazing experince y'all!
Later this week we tracted into Gisma who is from South Sudan Africa and her culture taught her to always accept Jesus Christ so when we said that we were here to share a message about Jesus Christ she let us in right away. We showed her a prince of peace video and descussed how wonderful Jesus Christ is. It's kind of hard to teach her because she speaks Arabic and knows little english just enough to have a conversation with us. So, we are trying to see if there is some way we can get a missionary/anybody that knows her launguage to skype in for a lesson with her! So, if anyone of you know anyone that knows the language of Arabic please email me and let us know!:) On thursday we went back over to give her Book of Mormon in Arabic and she got so excted and started reading right away. It was the coolest thing!
On Friday we were able to meet with Tony! Tony is a referral from the sisters in Mount Juliet. We went over earlier that day to introduce ourselves and get to know him a little bit more. We were able to set up an appointment with him for that day! The lesson went really well we had a member call us from mount juliet who is a friend of Tony's and wanted to come to the lesson with us. He was an amazing team up! Tony had some questions on the Holy Ghost and questions about the Atonment. He told us if it feels right he wants to get baptised and he said that he wanted to get baptised in a river which I thought was really cool! haha he also said that he was going to try to come to church with us on sunday! We were able to get a return appointment for Tuesday! :)
on Saturday we did some tracting and did a little bit of contacting until we had a dinner appointment with a family in our ward. After that we went on a team up with some members and were able to talk to this less active guy named Terrence that the english Elders were working with. We shared a bunch of videos with him because he kept asking for some more to watch because he loved them. We invited him to come to church and told him that we would bring him some moon pies if he does come to church. He told us that he would try to make it. After that we went home and played a round of uno to wrap up the night.
Sunday (New years eve!) we woke up and went to church. Terrence CAME TO CHURCH!!! It was so cool to see him there because I dont think I have ever seen him there at church beforeAfter church we had a lesson with Ben. He is doing really well and still is excited to be baptised! Right after Ben's lesson we went over to the Keefe's for dinner and just to hang out with them. It was a lot of fun. After we got home we played alittle bit of Uno with the elders and watched meet the mormons until midnight then we went to bed right after that. Such a great day!
I am extreemly greatful for the gospel of Jesus Christ and the oppurtunity I have to share his gospel with others. I have loved watching this gospel change the lives of others. I hope that this next week would be just as great as this last week. I love you all and hope you have a safe and wonderful New Years!
Scripture of the week:
Alma 40:23
lets see if you can find me!!:)
haha that sign!
Christmas with the Baileys!
No comments:
Post a Comment