Well,
this last week was totally awesome. Highlights to follow:
We
had a really good lesson with this guy named Jarv, we taught his wife the other
week. He is a really cool dude. He had a lot of questions but our lesson went
really well and he actually has a granddaughter, who just had major surgery,
that he wants us to see! So hopefully that leads to some family business going
on! Not sure, but he may be related to the Laffertys.
Speaking
of the Laffertys, we were able to see them this week! We talked to them last
Saturday and Brother Lafferty was just barely getting to the point he could
move after his cancer treatment! But they are still super nice and open to us!
We were worried because about 2 weeks ago we called and the person who answered
said we had the wrong number and hung up! But it turns out it was his brother
and his brother thought we were a telemarketer, so we were relieved to see them
still open and nice!
Thomas
is doing really well. He's come to church for 3 weeks in a row now and is
reading a lot of the Book of Mormon! He's a little behind our Book of Mormon
reading, but he is doing a lot of reading, so it's good.
Cathy
will be getting baptized this Saturday and we will be exchanging back with the
Elders in Hazard at the baptism because I get to do my first baptismal
interview! That will be an exciting weekend for sure! She has been doing really
well and is super excited to get baptized. She tells us all the time how
excited she is and that if we don't pull her up out of the water fast enough,
she'll pull us in after her! She's a funny lady:)
Sean
and April are doing good. They didn't come to church, but they did read the
chapter in the Book of Mormon and prayed and answered the question they had!
They are doing really well. They’re progressing slower but we are excited for
them. They'll get to church sometime soon, we know it!!!
The
ward had a good festival for Halloween on Saturday. We helped run one of the
games and got to meet a lot of non-members. One of which we are really excited
to talk to is Tim. He and his son are a part of scouts here and he is super
cool. It was really funny actually. So the food pantry we work at gave us a
whole tub of skittles the other week and so we were handing them out of our
trunk to everyone who came by. Tim and his family walked by and then Elder
Baggett made a joke about handing out copies of the Book of Mormon and he said
"Yeah, I'll take one for sure!" and then HE GRABBED ONE FROM OUR CAR!!
It was funny and then we got to talk to him a little yesterday at his house and
he said he'd be cool with having us back over! Elder Baggett is a pro, it's
pretty funny how many times he's been able to just really casually and easily
give people copies of the Book of Mormon.
So
yeah, that's most of what happened this week, it was a good time. Oh, I also
went on exchanges with Elder Willie here in Martin and that went pretty well.
He's super cool. He is from Idaho and played Rugby and wrestled. He's a super
funny enthusiastic missionary so I look forward to seeing him grow during his
first part of the mission!
This
week, I just want to talk about my Book of Mormon reading. As I have been doing
this, I have seen just how often the Book of Mormon is really talking about
Jesus Christ, and especially His power. Just how much power and influence He
has to work miracles and do good in our lives. I know that as we study from the
scriptures, they truly testify of Jesus Christ. It's not just some book to
read, but its purpose is to point us to the source, even Jesus Christ, that we
may look to for a remission of our sins. That's why I like the phrase Elder
Stevenson used in conference, "look to the Book, look to the Lord".
It's true and I know it.
Hope
y'all have a great week! Keep close to the Lord and don't catch anything on
"far" (fire with a southern Kentucky accent)
Take
Luck
Elder
"Ghoul"d
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