This last week was really great! It did not turn out as expected. Probably the coolest events this week
happened on Thursday and Friday.
Thursday it was raining all day. It was one of those days where you think,
"Oh, it is going to be 'one of these' days." Later that evening, we decided to go by an
inactive member. For whatever reason, we did not bring a light
jacket with us; So, we were enjoying the
rain in white shirts and ties. Our GPS was not working so we decided to wait
for a bit until it connected to satellites. It simply wouldn't so we decided to keep
walking. While we are walking, we see a bicycle
parking place with a roof and we decide to wait under that and check the GPS. Before we get under, a guy stops us and asks if
we are Mormons. We confirmed his
question. I was kinda excited because I
thought something good was going to happen. Turns out, he was a member, but he wanted his
name removed from the records. We listened
to him for a little bit and then told him we would go and talk to the Bishop
for him. We parted ways and we got under
the pavilion. There was a young guy who
was just chilling on a bike rack. We
were checking the GPS and another guy who was kinda drunk wandered over and started
taking to us. As he was talking with us, the guy on the bike rack started to
join the conversation. Elder Paskett
talked with him while I talked with the drunk. Long
story short, my buddy was not interested. After he left, another drunk guy came and we
started to talk with each other. The guy
is married and has two kids and just lost his job, so he started drinking. He talked about how life was hard and how he
just needed the strength to stand back up. I talked with him a little bit about the plan
of salvation and bore testimony of it. I
also did the same [bore testimony] with the Book of Mormon and Jesus Christ. He
then said, "I just want my family to be together again. I just want to help my family, and this is not
helping." He looked down at his beer bottle in his hand. He had only taken a swig or two from it since
it had been opened. He then said,
"And my first step towards that is this..." He walks over to some
dirt and pours out his entire bottle. I
could not believe what I just saw! It
was the coolest! He then unlocked his bike,
got on it and said, "I am now going to spend some time with my family."
I offered him a card with a link to the
video 'Because He Lives'. I told him a
little bit about it. He took it and said
that he and his family would watch it. I
then turn to the conversation with the guy on the rack. The conversation winds
down. I then hold out the Book of Mormon in my hand and I ask him if he wanted
it. He said sure. We talked about it a bit. I then asked him if we could stay in contact
because we had to go. He said sure and
then asked where we were going. We told
him about the go by and then he said that he would come with us. We talk and
walk in the rain and had a good time. We
learned more about each other. After the
go by, it was about 8:40 pm and already dark. I asked him if he wanted to see the church
building and if he had time. He said he
did. We eventually got there and we were
soaked. We talked with him for a bit and
had an out of order first lesson. We
then had a prayer and he ended up saying one too. We made an appointment for this next day. He is so cool! 25 year old Martin. Best part about it is that he is normal. I
have never really had a normal investigator. We then went home for the night.
Friday he did not show up for the appointment and he did not
have a cell phone until Monday (today) so we had no way of getting in contact with
him. He has several things from us so he
will be able to call us when he can. We
decided to go by the same place that we found him at to see if he was there
again. He was not. It was some other people. As we walked by they called us Jehovah's
Witnesses. We corrected them and they
became interested in who we are. The
three of them were very nice. We gave a
Book of Mormon to a girl. She was not
happy with where she was and she was super thankful and happy when we gave her
the book. The other two guys were nice
and had lots of questions. We gave them
both cards.
So yeah. Saturday we
helped with a move for a couple hours so that was fun. That was the week. It was really awesome! It did not turn out as expected thankfully. I always like surprises.
Have a great week!
Kayl
Look what I found hanging around.
Our Church Building
