To start off there was a day this week that the work wasn’t going to good and I was just flat out drained. After our dinner we decided to change our plans and we were going to visit some people but they were at a further part of our area so it was going to require some biking. Before we left we prayed then we got up and I opened the door to find it was pouring rain outside and the temperature dropped to 44 degrees plus humidity...
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What a week! First off General Conference was a spiritual bomb! Sitting in the chapel and hearing the prophet announce some new changes was a spiritual experience I’ll never forget. Immediately after the announcements the Spirit bore powerful testimony that these changes were indeed the direction from God and they are what we need for our time now. We are so blessed to have a prophet like President Russell M. Nelson, it was so...
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This week was kind of all over the place. We had an exchange with the Canton elders and Elder Beckey and Elder Baird met a man who was interested in learning more about the church! They taught him the Restoration and set up a time to meet again the next day. Well the next day Elder Beckey and I went to the return appointment and had a pretty lengthy discussion. What we learned the most coming out of the discussion is that a lot of...
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What up what up! This week I have my first talk in my mission! I was trying to go the full two years but I got caught and now I’m assigned to give another in April ha, so close. We got called the night before to fill in for someone so it was last minute but the topics were on prophets and the 21 day challenge which was a challenge issued by M. Russell Ballard to help members get in the habit of praying for people and missionary...
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Hey everyone! This week was so great, last Sunday we did a mini exchange with Jasper so there was four of us in our area and we went to an apartment complex to knock doors. While we were there elder Rippstein and I met a man who moved here from Africa and spoke very little English but you could tell his heart was there and he really did want to talk with us more but physically couldn’t get the words out he wanted to. We saw so...
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