So this last Tuesday, I got a call from
Sis Woodard asking me to give a blessing to one of the Sister's
investigators. I guess Sis Woodard had become good friends with this
lady and she was suffering from 2 kidney stones and just had gotten done
passing one. Elder Lesuma and I went over and gave her a great
blessing. We were able to teach her a little bit about the Priesthood
and the power that is behind it. The spirit just took over as I began
the blessing, so thankful for the Holy Ghost and the Priesthood.
Just
and update on our investigator Jeanette. We were supposed to meet this
week but she got in contact with us before our appointment and told us
that she was too bust right now to meet with us. She doesn't want us to
stop teaching her though, just won't be able to teach her for a couple
of weeks. I guess she is dealing with some legal stuff with her son. She
said she would still read though, so that is good!
Wednesday
we went to get a haircut for Lesuma in the deep ghetto. JD, the cook at
Pastry Garden, took us to where he gets his haircut. We were able to
teach tons of lessons to people. The view of these guys there were way
crazy and we were able to clear up things and invite the spirit into
somewhere where the spirit probably never is. JD said that the guys
there respected us though, one guy was about to roll a blunt but stopped
and the other guy said to take that outside. I even got to play some
pool with one the guys I taught, it was pretty fun. They thought I was chill though, they
couldn't get over how tall I was. I went outside for a sec to take a
phone call and you would never guess what I found... A pile of fried
chicken bones! hahaha I love the south :)
Friday
we had Bishop Storehouse, it went pretty smoothly because a ton of
people showed up! I even got a box of thin mints out of it too. One of
the ladies that runs it, knows me pretty well now and said I could have
one for free :) score! Later that day, we traveled on bikes to our far
south area. We got in contact with one of our less-active which is good!
I also got to chat with a few of the kids playing basketball in the
street. The oldest one was 22 and the youngest was 13. I asked if they
had a minute to listen to a message about Jesus Christ but they didn't
want to hear anything. Then, I challenged the oldest one to a game of
PIG and said if I won, I got to teach them a lesson. The confident kid,
of course said yes. How could a black kid from the ghetto, lose to a
white guy from Idaho? Well ladies and gents, I won!! Hahaha they
couldn't believe it! So we taught them a short message and promised to
come back next week for a rematch :)
Saturday
stunk so much... we had so many people planned to go visit and no one
answered! Literally no one answered! The only good thing was that we got
a really good bike ride in. We biked all over our area and helped
Lesuma understand our area better. Oh! I guess we saw one guy that day.
It was one of our old investigators, back when Franklin was here. His
name is Amigo! He is from Samoa so of course I had to take Lesuma to go
see him. He welcomed us right in and I think Lesuma might be able to
help him better than Franklin and I could. We will see what happens.
Sunday
was good! There weren't very many people that came, but there were some
good talks! We also found out that David A Bednar is coming to our
stake conference in 2 weeks. I am so excited! He is one of my favorite
apostles :)
Last night we got a call from one
of our investigators, Gary Gordon. He has been in the hospital since
last Thursday because he got bit by something and his legs were infected
and swollen and he couldn't walk. So I offered to come and give him a
blessing. So today before emailing, we went over to the hospital and
gave him a Priesthood blessing. It went really well and he even
expressed to us how much faith he had in our blessing. I hope he
recovers soon so we can continue to teach him. He told us he still
wanted to hear about the Plan of Salvation.
Overall,
it was a good week! I look forward to this next week, we have some good
plans ahead of us. Hattiesburg is treating me well, still loving it
here. Zone Conference is tomorrow so that should be fun! The weather is
starting to get warmer, hopefully it doesn't continue to rain like last
week. I hope y'all know Jesus Christ and have a relationship with him. I
know I do, and I am blessed. My blessing are endless, I am truly
grateful to be serving a mission. We talked to Bishop for like 2 hours
yesterday and he gave me some great advice. I know this church is true
and I know that God is real, if you want to know for yourself. Simply
ask, I know he will answer. His answers may come in many different ways,
but it will come. Be ready to listen. Have a great week ya'll, I miss
and love y'all so much!
Keep on smiling!
Love,
Elder Mason Rankin :)
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