After District meeting on Wednesday,
I went on another exchange with Elder Davis from Slidell. He was in the
MTC with me so it was awesome to teach together again and see how far
we have come. We taught some less-actives together and a couple active
members. We are hoping to teach a members granddaughter and boyfriend in
the near future. We will see what happens. That next morning all 4 of
us when to serve a member in our ward. They are the Brown's, I love
them. We dug up some stuff, took out some plants and put in a new drain
so that his front porch doesn't flood anymore. These palm bushes we took
out, took forever. They had some crazy root system and they were hard
to cut. We had to grab a pick axe to pull it out. I was sweatin real
good and I got a lot of sun. Bro Brown is a big fisherman so he talked
to us a lot about fishing. He invited me back after the mission to go
out on his boat and catch some big fish with him! Such a great family!
Update
on J____... He got a new job!!! But we didn't get to meet with him at
all this week because he was busy and we were busy so hopefully we can
meet up here soon. Now that he has this new job he can come to church on Sunday!
The lows for this past week were probably the lack of finding new investigators and everyone being busy. Saturday
we went over to this area called Bay Side Park and worked there all
day. 5 hours of tracting later... we were able to teach 2 people and
give out 1 Book of Mormon. Lots of doors slammed in our face and angry
dogs. It's all good though, we are really praying to find someone
awesome this next week. I have faith that we will.
Update
on H____ and B____... H____ came to church! We were so happy when we
found out she was going to come to church since she couldn't meet all
week. I hope we can find a time this week to meet up to teach them both.
B______ was over in Louisiana working all week so that stunk. He should
be coming back this week though. We keep praying he will find a job
over here in the Bay.
Our cool experience for the week was on Saturday
when we were in Bay Side Park. I had seen this guy walk by us while we
were on a door step and he kept looking at us. But couldn't find him
after we turned around to go to the next house. Later when we were done
for the day, we were driving back and I saw him walking on the side of
the road. At first I was like "should I pull over and run him down", but
then decided to just wave and pass by. As we began to pass by, the
spirit stopped me and we began to talk through the car window. He was
actually a really nice guy, so we pulled over, hopped out and taught him
on the side of the road next to our car. His name is D____, younger guy
and has attended many churches throughout his life. We didn't get to
teach him long before we had to go, but we shared with him a simple
message and left him with a Book of Mormon to read. We offered a prayer
with him and plan to follow-up this next week. Heavenly Father continues
to teach me, listen to his promptings.
The
District is coming down for P-day so we should have a good day! Lunch on
the beach, maybe some games, I am not sure but it should be fun! Have a
great week and make sure to keep on smiling! Heavenly Father loves you
and so do I! Just another day in Paradise...
Love,
Elder Mason Rankin :)
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| Exchanges |
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| Doing Service |
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| W. Rankin street |
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| fried up the catch |
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