Alright so this has been a pretty awesome week. We picked up 3 new
investigators which isn't incredible, but going from 0 to 3 investigators is a
real good start. Elder Park and I have focused a lot of our studies on how to
find people better because it's not very easy to get into homes and start
teaching. If two guys showed up on your door and wanted to talk about religion,
would you pay attention to what they had to say and let them in? Ha that's the
classic problem, but we've been diving into the Book of Mormon and trying to
figure out how Ammon, Aaron, Abinadi, Alma, and all those other awesome
missionaries got people to listen to them. It has been working pretty well and
we've found some good potentials. That's not to mention the 3 awesome
investigators we found.
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| Matching Ties! |
On Tuesday we met with an investigator named Bill who actually looked into
the church about a year ago and is interested again. The problem is that he
tells us he'd be baptized if he were 52, but he's 72 and he's too old now. We
had a really good lesson though and his powerful prayer at the end consisted of
him asking to be directed where he should go. He's a total talker and it's hard
to get him to stay on topic, but when we do there are some powerful moments with
the spirit pretty strong. He has a lot of potential to join the church.
Then on Wednesday we met with a wonderful lady named Cindy. We met her
while we were out walking a few days before that, and she was the very last
person that we talked to. It was time to get back in for the night so we almost
kept walking, but the spirit let us know we needed to stop and talk to her. Our
first lesson with her got us pretty excited because she seems pretty interested
in reading and learning about all of this. We actually get to meet with her
again today so that should be awesome!
That same day we were knocking doors and met this guy Brady. He let us in
to pray with us, but we ended up teaching the whole first lesson and he seemed
excited to read the Book of Mormon. He was sick that day so he wasn't able to go
to work. I guess it's not good that he was sick, but it was a total blessing
because we probably wouldn't have met him otherwise. Brady is definitely looking
for truth. Good news for him because he now has the Book of Mormon.
I got to go back for Pam's baptism this week which was pretty incredible. I
was reminiscing on the whole process of how she was baptized because months
before I got here to Oklahoma Sister Hammond had been praying for missionary
opportunities. Then this lady named Michelle came along and Sister Hammond
started to have a lot of gospel discussions with her and was helping her with a
lot of things. I remember one morning Sister Hammond called us and we talked to
her for a while, and she told us that she was going to invite Michelle over so
we needed to clear our schedule for that night whether she came or not. That
definitely showed a lot of faith on her part because she invited her and
Michelle didn't show up; however, that whole time that Sister Hammond had been
working with Michelle, Pam had gotten in on a lot of the conversations so she
decided to come that night instead. We had dinner and taught the Restoration
lesson. By the next time we met Pam already had a testimony of Joseph Smith as a
prophet and that the Book of Mormon was true. That just continued to grow
through the weeks that followed that, and the gospel started to fill holes in
her heart that she didn't even know she had. Pam was able to be baptized on her
birthday which is super cool because November 23rd is now her birthday and
spiritual re-birthday. Ha it was pretty cool. I was blessed with the opportunity
to confirm her, and it was so cool to hear what Heavenly Father had in store for
her. The words, "Receive the Holy Ghost" are so powerful and it is so amazing to
see someone gain that gift. Pam is definitely a very special person and I'm
excited to see her grow in the gospel.
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| Pam's Baptism |
Yesterday was pretty crazy we got like 2 centimeters of snow, so they
cancelled church and we were told that we couldn't drive our cars. I guess
Oklahoma isn't used to these kind of conditions. The area that we live in is
pretty spread out too, so we could bike around but that would be pretty
innefective. Luckily, an amazing member came and picked us up and wanted help to
do her member missionary work. We made loaves of bread to deliver to her
neighbors and got to watch the restoration dvd. Then once the bread was finished
we went out to deliver the bread. This is when things got crazy. We would go up
to doors and offer people the bread that their neighbor made and they were
saying no. I looked at them and just thought, you fools why don't you take our
bread? I mean it makes sense when people say no to our message because they hear
crazy things about us and don't know what they're missing out on, but when we
put a warm loaf of fresh baked bread in their face, it just doesn't make sense
why they wouldn't take it. Haha I'm used to getting rejected by this point, but
when you reject my bread now we got a problem. Jk, but it was actually super
funny to talk to the people. After a while we were able to give away the bread,
but we just couldn't get over the fact that people didn't want some delicious
bread in a cute bag with ribbon on it.
Haha anyways, I talked about the bread thing for way too long, but this has
been a pretty awesome week. Elder Park is an amazing missionary, so we're going
to have a lot of fun and success in this area. Life is good all the time. I love
you lots and hope you have a good week. HFF!
Love, Elder Hoddy
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