12-14-15
PDay was awesome! We rode with the Cheraw Elders to Florence to go to
Buffalo Wild Wings. Four more Elders met up with us as well. It was
finally my chance to catch up on some stats and highlights with all
the TVs there. Haha the Panthers are doing so good this year! It's
awesome to hear about. Cam Newton is an animal. People love their
football out her. I could honestly see myself living out here later in
life. After BDubs, we went to the mall and walked around for awhile.
It was weird because of how worldly it was! Haha
12-15-15
Today was a sad day because we had to say goodbye to our good friends;
the Weibels. They are moving back home to Ohio. We helped them pack
everything up in a moving van. That included three of us pushing two
motorcycles up the ramp! I'm glad we got to help because there wasn't
anyone else there to help them. A neighbor of theirs came over to say
goodbye. He's an old man who has the funniest pug named Pete. Pete the
Pug. Haha his eyes were huge! They bought us pizza for lunch which was
really good. Then for dinner, we went out to eat with the Laffidy's at
a local family owned restaurant (Ruth's). I got a bacon cheeseburger
of course! We met this really nice lady named "Blaeton." We are gonna
teach her on Thursday!
12-16-15
We had an appointment with a lady named Wanda. She was the lady that
was reading the BoM when we happened to be in her area. The lesson
went really well! Her daughter named Tía sat in too. We taught her
about the BoM and the history of it. We also read it with her. She
said; "I already know it's true!" After the lesson, we committed her
to be baptized on January 16th. We also got to meet with the Landlord
today and we're going to go look at newer apartments we might move in
tomorrow! The one we live in is so out of date. On our way home for
the night, we stopped by Patti and Dave's who are the nonmembers who
fed us on Thanksgiving. We were able to talk her into letting us help
set up Christmas Decorations in and around her house. She didn't have
any up, so she was happy we helped.
12-17-15
It rained most of the day today... We met a lot of really neat people
though! We met a lady from Memphis who has been though a lot in her
life. Her mom was Mormon during her life, so she is very familiar with
is. We had a long talk with her. Heavenly Father definantly led us to
her. She wants to lead more, so we gave her a pamphlet and a card to
call missionaries in her area.
12-18-15
We did a lot of tracting today. We met some interesting people today
in the ghetto. This one guy claimed that he is the devil himself. He
was contradicting everything he was saying about there not being a
God.
A member family had us over for Pork Chops! After dinner, we got to
meet up with another member who went out to go teach a couple lessons
with us. We got to see Blaeton and teach her the Plan of Salvation. We
asked her to commit to being baptized when she come to know what we
taught her is true. She accepted! Then, we went to go see a guy named
Michael Langdon who we have been meeting with for awhile. He grew up
in the church, but fell away from it when he was 17. He joined the
Army and later, became a member of another church. We had such a
spiritual lesson with him. The spirit helped guide us to say all the
right things. The member we brought (Bro. Lillian) is a convert who
used to be in the Navy. He bore a really powerful testimony of how he
came to know this was the true church. He shared Alma 32:28 and now
that a huge part in his conversion. It helped him recognize how the
Spirit felt. We didn't get around to our lesson plan at all. It's
amazing how the Spirit can direct the lesson to other things that we
should teach instead. He needed this lesson and I think it really
helped him! I know he felt the Spirit and I know he can find out it's
true for himself!
12-19-15
It was probably the coldest day so far today. We stopped by a
potential that we have been teaching for awhile and his son talked to
us for a loong time. He was pretty crazy. Haha he didn't even stop to
take a breath for about an hour straight. He rambled on about the most
random things. We finally, got out of there and went to go see an
inactive lady to go do some service for her. She gave us Christmas
cards with money in them! To end this night, we went to Sis. Catoe's
and ate dinner with her and her family. Then, we went to the ward
mission leader's home to share a message with them. They're a funny
family. One of his son's works at a funeral home and is a mortician...
He told us some pretty interesting stories!
I love you!
-Elder Mitchell
