Ahoy!
Another week gone by! We saw some
pretty great miracles this week! Not to mention that it is 2014! Crazy stuff!
Monday was zone training meeting. We
met with the zone and gave some trainings on setting baptismal dates and
effective planning. It was a good meeting. After the meeting we had call-ins
with the assistants and went finding.
Tuesday, since it was New Year’s Eve,
we went to the Carruthers family for lunch and just a wholesome good time.
There was some excellent food – jacket potatoes and what not. And we had fun.
We went and taught Neil and Emma afterwards, Emma just got back from Thailand
and it was good to see them both again. We went to bed at 10:30 as usual to
celebrate the new year. Woo!
Wednesday we went finding again. We
spoke with three girls from Zambia. They are Christian and were very open to
have us come around, so we set a time for Sunday. The rest of the day we met
lots of different people. We met a cool English guy named Neil who rode his
motorcycle from Norwich to Bombay … he said it took him seven. Some people are
crazy. He is now planning on driving a Range Rover from Finland to South
Africa, so I am sure that will be exciting. He had some pretty far out stories
to tell us haha.
Thursday we had an exchange with
Elder Dominguez. He is from Spain and came up from London to be with Elder Cuche
and I. We had a nice time. We taught a less active guy, asked him for a
referral, and he said the people across the street were less active and hadn’t
been visited in a long time. So we went by after his lesson, and they let us in.
We taught them and gave them a blessing. We then asked them for a referral and
they gave us their son's address and told us to go by. We did and he let us in
and we taught him as well. The power of working with members and less actives!
It was a cool thing to experience all in the matter of like two hours.
The weekend was a bit slow except for
Sunday. We fasted and prayed for our investigators and for these African girls
we wanted to teach, and when we went by for our appointment with them not only
were the three girls there but the whole family was in the living room waiting
for us, except the father who was working. All together there were six. The mother looked familiar and it turns out
we stopped her like five weeks ago and she wanted us to come by, but her
English was very, very poor and we couldn’t understand where she lived. But we
taught a powerful lesson on the Restoration to the whole family plus some
aunties. And now all six of them are investigating and they said their father
would be as well.
I’m glad we could fast for them and
teach them. They are very sincere and we are excited to teach them and unite
this family in the gospel. It was a great way to start this year off. I’m
grateful for the Restoration of the gospel, and I am glad I can share this
unique message with people like the Simbi family.
Cheerio,
Elder
Purdy
