What a crazy week! I will start off
with a pretty interesting experience,
Elder Torbit and I were coming back
from a walk out to a village and we just got back into Hitchin. It had been a pretty hectic day and we both
felt like we could have been more productive that day. We were walking down the street and we came
up behind this Jamaican lady. We started
walking and talking to her. Her name was
D- and she was just having a stroll down the street to clear her mind. We
stopped at a bench and sat down with her and were just chatting about nothing
really, then we started talking about the gospel and what we do as missionaries. And then nobody said anything ... it was just
silent and the spirit was really strong. This went on for like 15 seconds and
then D- started to cry. Turns out she lost her husband at the beginning of July
to some illness and she was really just missing her native land of Jamaica. So that’s why she was on a walk – just to
clear her mind with all the stuff that was going on. We testified, read in the
Book of Mormon about what happens when we die and she just cried the whole time. We really cheered her up by the end, and we
are hopefully going to see her this week. God puts prepared people in the way
of His prepared servants.
We saw I- a lot this week, she is
doing really well. She is the 12-year-old
who is half Brazilian. We planned to teach her the Restoration this week. When we went there to teach that to her she
said she had a question and asked, “I want to know which church is the true
church.” Perfect question! We had a good lesson and we invited her to pray just
as Joseph Smith did. She couldn’t make it to church, but she promised to come
next week.
Also we taught E-, our 9-year-old
investigator, and we invited her to be baptized on the 25th of this month! So
we have 3 dates! She is doing really well and she is definitely making the
decision to be baptized herself. I am
really happy for her.
We are doing good work here, but we
need to find more people to teach! That has been one thing we need. We went tracting for 5 ½ hours on Saturday
and not too much happened – lots of slammed doors and what not. Guess it was just one of those days. We are
both really feeling the urge to find some new people though. I
focused my studies around that this week and it was really good. I love talking to people and seeing their backgrounds
and where they come from. I really pray
we have more success this week.
Things are good. We have a meeting
in Hyde Park next week, and I think it is about getting Facebook pages. We are living in the space age fo sho!
Life is good. We had a pretty fun Nerf fight with some
members’ kids, we have met oodles of crazy people, and we are having some
really good lessons.
Love,
Elder
Purdy
