I'll start with our awesome day we had on Thursday.
We had tons of success finding and teaching our investigators. Last
Sunday we tracted into this lady and she told us to come back a
different day. After a few reschedules, we finally got in Thursday
to teach her and her fiance. They have a few kids and are just a great
couple. We started off introducing ourselves and our purpose as
missionaries. We got into the lesson a little bit, but the wife had to
leave early to go get her kids so we continued to teach her fiance,
Will. He was really understanding, he asked good questions and the
spirit was there backing up and giving us the words to say. It all made
sense to him, we even recapped at the end and he practically told me the
Restoration lesson by himself only hearing it once. He wants to read it
all as fast as he can and wants to know more about it. We invited him
to pray and discussed the Holy Ghost. I think Will and his wife could
get baptized here in the next months, they are awesome and were prepared
to hear our message. Another thing that was cool, I had prayed
specifically to find a young family to teach and we found them within
days. I pray our upcoming lessons go well.
Later
that day we went to visit some less-actives, the Davis family. As we
taught and discussed with them about their conversion, the spirit told
me to ask them to come to our next lesson with this young family. They
would be perfect! They both are young, they both have young kids and I
could see them getting along great. I asked them and they happily agreed
to join us this next week at their lesson. I can't wait! I really pray
that it all goes well!
Of course, this last
weekend was Halloween! We had a trunk or treat at the church and it went
great. We had a few non members there, lots of candy, games and fun! We
were in charge of the donut on the string game. It was funny to watch
all the little kids try to eat a donut without their hands. There was
some rain on Halloween but we still had a good day. We went to Greenwood
so we could go on an exchange with the Elders. It was fun! Elder Meyer
showed us some places where the movie "The Help was filmed" and took us
around the small town. We finished off the day at the Turley's for some
chili and games! It was fun! :)
Last thing, we
have this awesome investigator name Melissa we have been teaching for a
little bit. She is very spiritual, has studied a lot of different
religions and has a great relationship with God. She believes that the
Book of Mormon is true, that Joseph Smith saw what he saw and that she
needs to be baptized by the Priesthood. She knows this because she
prayed and asked got and he told her through the spirit! We are shooting
for her to get baptized at the end of this month! I pray that it goes
through and it continues to go well as we teach her the rest of the
lessons and more about the gospel. She came to church yesterday and
liked it a lot. She was so interested in the sacrament, she loved it.
After church she asked Elder Davis and I, "can you baptize me?" I really
have high hopes and faith that she can make it! I hope we continue to
have success with her.
Something that stood out
to me in my studies this week is this quote by Elder Ballard, "True
conversion comes through the power of the spirit.... experiences with
the Spirit follow naturally when a person is willing to experiment upon
the word." I know this to be true. I have seen as the spirit has worked
with me and others to bring about conversion. For instance, we have this
member in our ward named Eric Motton. When I first got here, he was
barely coming to church. After working with him some, he is now blessing
the sacrament every week, going out with us to see people and is always
early to church. As he shared his testimony, the other day in a lesson,
I was overcome with joy at how far he had come! The Spirit changes
lives. Pray for it, seek it and enjoy it. True happiness comes through
this Gospel! Have a great week y'all, continue to be awesome! I love and
miss y'all! Keep on smiling! :)
Love,
Elder Mason Rankin #Gameon
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