This week was amazing! There are so many miracles happening in the mission right now! Also in the zone and our area! Side note: I hit my 18 month mark on Friday. We did nothing special for it. Let me tell you about a few miracles we saw!
The first is David. He is super cool, and came out of nowhere! Some sisters up in Alexandria contacted him and referred him to the Freddy A sisters. He decided to come to church, and it turns out he is YSA, so they came to our branch with him and passed him off! He is super humble and prepared. We set him on date during Elders Quorum! In part of the lesson, we divided into small groups and each studied a different gospel topic essay, so we studied the apostasy with him and one thing led to another. We essentially taught the restoration in the 15 minute study break we had, and it was sweet! He is super excited to work toward the 29th, and absolutely loved church!
The second is Terry. We only had about an hour on Saturday to find people to teach, and we have a standard of excellence in the mission to make meaningful contact with 10 new people every day. So we petitioned the lord to help us and went downtown. We decided to share the new light the world videos with people, and they are so powerful! Everyone we showed it to agreed to help us light the world, and we got more than 10 meaningful contacts in that hour! The first of which was Terry. We were there to contact him specifically. He was the one we were there for! He is a less active member from Stafford who has been thinking about going back to church recently. He was in tears by the end. Powerful.
The third is Megan and Travis. I was on exchanges with Elder Replogle, and had planned to tract some apartments we were working through, but didn't feel super confident about it, so we prayed and were directed to some other apartments across the street. We found Megan in the first building we knocked, and Elder Replogle had contacted her on a previous exchange! We had a powerful lesson with her, and even got her boyfriend Travis (who seems a little rough and didn't want to talk) to open up a ton! By the end, he told us we had to come back and talk again. Always follow spiritual promptings.
The fourth is Valerie. We were on exchanges with the Culpeper Spanish Elders for this one and followed yet another spiritual prompting to video chat Valerie (a recent convert who is struggling a bit). We had a powerful lesson with her and the next day she came to 3 lessons and testified! She's back!
The fourth is Lamar. We haven't had a lesson with him in almost a month, so we stopped by on Sunday and were going to stop teaching him if he wasn't there, but he was! We had a great conversation, and work is going better for him, so he said he would start coming to church again! We were beyond excited about that.
In other notes:
We were on exchanges with the Chancellor Elders on Tuesday, and wrestled. It didn't end well, but was really fun! We found out on Wednesday that Chandler received some crazy revelation and is now engaged to the girl he just started dating. We also started teaching an interesting guy named Dylan who really wants to hang out with us, and called Elder Larson "lord larson" until we corrected him. He came to church!
Anyway, it was a great week here, and the Lord is in His vineyard with us! I know He will help us acheive our goal of 280 convert baptisms this year, and that this is the most important work to be done! I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!!
Elder Brown
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| Legendary Exchange Pics (Chancellor and Culpeper Spanish [Trio]) |
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| (Chancellor and Culpeper Spanish [Trio]) |
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| A nasty black widow |
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