Hey-there everyone! Elder Baggett
and I went to a science center at Big Sandy community college earlier today,
which was sweet. I got to hold a bearded dragon and learn science. I miss
school, haha. Anyways, this last week was totally awesome!
Last week we played basketball to end
our p-day and then we went and did some community service in Maytown. There was
a little community center we went to and we helped with Halloween games and
organization and such, so that was fun.
Tuesday was sort of a let down compared
to most other Tuesdays. On Tuesdays we go to Allen and Dwale which are the
busiest places we go for a small as they are, but this week we had a lot of
appointments fall through sadly. Regardless we did get to see a lot of people
and we talked to one person in Dwale completely by "accident". People
in our mission are pretty bad when it comes to addresses so we usually get real
general directions to places when we get referrals. So we went to talk to this
one referral we had and found another lady who was super interested in learning
more!! She loves to read and has never read the Book of Mormon and willingly
accepted it! That was pretty awesome and we are going to see her
tomorrow!
Wednesday was also kind of a slow day,
we had a lot of people out in McDowell not answer but we did get one of the
coolest text messages ever! We were teaching Thomas about the 10 commandments
and the prophet and then Elder Baggett got a text message. Afterwards we looked
at it and it was from Sean and April, April specifically! We had
committed them on Sunday to pray specifically and ask if the Book of Mormon is
true. April said she had done everything we committed and that she was excited
to tell us what happened! If that doesn't just kill a missionary and makes the
hours drag on forever, I don't know what does. So yeah, we were excited.
Thursday we had the usual planning session
for the week and then we headed back to Allen and Dwale to see a lot of the
people we missed on Tuesday. We got to see Fudd, who is the father to a member
here and his wife is less active. He is an awesome man and he came to church
last week, not sure if I mentioned that, but Elder Baggett and I were
speculating it was for their granddaughter’s talk. He's been taught before but
we had a good lesson this week with him about learning as we read from the
scriptures not just reading them. More on him later…Then we went back to the
good ol' Job Corp and saw our newest investigator from there, Quinton Davis. We
are really excited for him because he is awesome and actually read the Book of
Mormon and took lots of notes! Now we need to just get him a ride to church!
Then we went and saw...Sean & April! Well, not exactly. Sean was the only
one home, April had to help out her niece. But Sean told us the news... Sunday
night, after praying, April apparently had a dream about dying or something
along those lines and she heard a voice, which she said was Christ’s and some
other details. But the crazy part is what it meant! She looked up the dream on
the internet as soon as she got up and the dream was interpreted to mean that
"you have just received new-found religious beliefs into your
life"!!!!!! Yeah, we flipped out and now she fully believes in the Book of
Mormon! It's awesome sauce.
Friday was a good day. We had Zone
Meeting in Huntington and I got to see Elder Kidd again (He was a zone leader
my last 2 transfers in Morgantown) because he's the new assistant to the
Mission President! He told me that there is supposed to be another baptism in
Morgantown soon, so I emailed Elder Roberts and found out that Natalia is set
for baptism on Nov. 19th!! That
is so awesome, she really was prepared and I'm sad I won't see it, but it's so
great to hear!!!!!
Then I got to go on exchanges with the
Elders in Hazard again. I was with Elder Hill in Hazard and the highlight (and
the main reason for the trip) was to interview a sister for baptism!! She was
the first person I have gotten to interview and it was awesome. She'll be
getting baptized this next weekend!
Saturday we drove back to Martin, just
in time for the baptism of Cathy! It was an awesome service and she invited a
ton of people to come!!! She had 4 family members come and one of her friends
as well! It was super awesome. Cathy was baptized by Brother Bentley. She's a great lady and we look forward to her
continuing in the gospel! Picture below:)
Sunday! Sunday was good. 10/10 would
recommend. We had an awesome testimony meeting. Cathy was confirmed a member of
the Church!! Then we had Fudd and his wife at church again! That was super
exciting to see. During the meeting Brother P., Fudd’s son, got up and bore
powerful testimony of the church and straight up said how he prays for his dad
to gain a testimony and wants him to be baptized into the true church so he can
have his family together forever! It was so awesome, the Spirit was so strong.
This past week I committed our district
to act on every spiritual prompting that they received throughout the week and
dang, it was awesome. The Spirit truly is an amazing gift and it WILL guide you
as long as you are humble and willing to follow its guidance. It is such a
blessing to be able to know God's will and see how much it blesses us. I
challenge each of you to the same thing, try and follow the Spirit in all
things! Love y'all and have a great week!
Take Luck,
Elder Goold
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