On Tuesday we had transfers and Elder Jarrett went home and I drove back to Smyrna Delaware with Elder Pittman. He is from Roosevelt Utah he is super cool. We have quite a bit in common. It's been a pretty slow week. Tuesday was pretty much just filled with us traveling back to our area. Wednesday was a rough day. We had nothing planned and what we did plan for was finished in about half the time that we thought it would take. Haha so by five pm we had run out of things to do for the entire day. Which was kind of the worst.
On Thursday we pretty much did the same thing as Wednesday except it didn't seem as depressing haha we had a few things planned. We stopped by to see a guy named John. He was a Bible referral who started his own church when he was 22 years old. We pretty much got preached to for an hour straight. We kept trying to teach the restoration but kept getting interrupted and got thrown into really off topic subjects.
Nothing really happened on Friday but on Saturday we saw God's hand specifically in our efforts. It was awesome. So it all started out with us planning on going to the Parade to do some street contacting and sharing a message about Christ. But when we got there we realized most of the people would be watching the parade and not wanting to be distracted by other people. Especially since it was rainy and cold, people Really didn't want to talk to us. So we ended up pulling off into a parking lot to see if we could make calls to get members to come to a lesson with us we had later in the afternoon. The person we are teaching is Maria and she is from Cape Verde. We talked to her earlier in the week and set up the appointment to teach her. So we made like 20 calls to members but everyone was busy. Finally we got a hold of Brother Phillips and so we set it up to meet at her house. When we got there and started teaching her we quickly found out that she didn't speak much English. We also quickly found out thank goodness that Brother Phillips went Spanish speaking on his mission and still was pretty fluent. So we taught her and her daughter in in English and Brother Phillips taught her in Spanish. It was so crazy how he was the only one that was able to go out with us. She is amazing and wants to get baptized. That experience just showed me how important it is to show faith and Heavenly father will do things for you. It was an amazing opportunity.
That's all for the week. Thank you all so much, keep sending mail and packages and emails everything and anything helps. Haha love yall
-Elder Dorrance
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| Only picture for the week - New Companion Elder Pittman |
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