This week has been such a blessing! There have been so many things that have just proved this gospel, over and over again! Between revelation, inspiration, and feeling the Holy Ghost, it's all happened this week! We had the opportunity to go on exchanges this week. Exchanges are when you trade companions for a day, with the other companionship in our district. I was paired up with Elder Mitchell! He is awesome!!!! Such a spiritual missionary in so many aspects! He has been out for 22 months.. He has about the same amount of months as i do years! haha he kept teasing me about that the whole time! But he asked me the night before we made the exchanges, what can I do to make you a better missionary or are there things that you want me to help you out with? I couldn't think of anything because i'm just such a great missionary already..... NOT! haha so i told him that i wanted to Personal Contact people a lot so i could get down sharing quick messages with people and letting them feel the spirit with only a few minutes of talking to them! We have a goal of 10 Personal Contacts a day. We count the Personal Contact as someone that you talk to, and invite them to do something, or give them a spiritual thought. But Elder Mitchell and I made 20 Personal Contacts in the day that we had together! It was so awesome conversing with that many people! Elder Elquist and i only get about 4 or 5 in a day, but me and Elder Mitchell were just having the best luck!!
So another thing that i told Elder Mitchell to help me out with is knowing the difference between revelation, or if it's just a thought. So while we were walking down the street i got a prompting to go talk to this less-active member which she lived in this apartment complex, but i was like i'm just thinking this because we are walking past her.. So i spoke up and told him about her in the complex, and he asked me if that was a revelation or just a thought. So i asked him, Elder Mitchell, which one was it!?? He was like well lets go over and see if she's home and after that i'll tell you if it was a revelation or if it was a thought. So we walked over and knocked on her door. But nobody was home.. I was like ahh come on, i still can't tell the difference!! So we start walking back to the main street, and we come across another guy who was walking through the complex. We contacted him, because we were talking to everyone!! He didn't seem too interested, but i shared a spiritual thought with him and asked if there was a better time where we could sit down and we could share more and answer any questions he had! He was kinda quiet and didn't answer for a bit. So me and Elder Mitchell just stood there and let him think! In about 3 minutes of just standing there he said, you know what? You two are pretty nice guys, you could come over tomorrow at around noon.. I was like ahh that's to bad, wait what!?? haha we never get invited back!! So we're like yeah give us your number and we will come back tomorrow!! So me and Elder Mitchell go back the next day at noon, and he is sitting in his house waiting for us! We talked to him for about an hour and gave him a Book or Mormon to read! He committed to read it and pray to know if it were true! WE GOT OUR FIRST INVESTIGATOR!!!!!!! It was such a blessing to know that i was prompted to go into that complex not only for the less active, but to meet Randy! Ahh it was so amazing to finally have a lesson with a non-member!! Prayers really are answered, and i now know, if i'm prompted to do something, DO IT!!! Randy is our first investigator and we are going over to his house this Wednesday to share some more with him and ask him if he wants to be baptized! It's actually happening!
I now know the reason i was called to Indiana, and especially, Winchester!! It may be only one person here that i convert, but that one person will have the truth in his life and be blessed for that! Heavenly Father works in such mysterious ways, and if we trust him and have faith that he'll guide us, we will be so much more successful! I love being out here and acting as a servant of our loving Heavenly Father, and being a representative of Jesus Christ to bring people unto the truth!
So i am in the Muncie stake right now, and come July 1st, the Muncie stake will be in the Cincinnati, Ohio mission... if i get extended in Winchester or stay in the Muncie stake after the 2nd transfer, i'll be in the Cincinnati mission instead of Indiana, Indianapolis...
I love you so much and i want you to know that you are in my every prayer!! byee!!!
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| Sunset |
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| More sunset |
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| This was on a door, we still knocked... No success.... |
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| This is the wall by my desk. I want to fill it up with pictures!! |
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