2-8-16
The Cheraw Elders came to Hartsville to hangout with
us for my birthday! They made me pick where I wanted to eat, so I picked
Zaxby's! After lunch, they took us to go get our groceries since they have a
car. Then, we went to the church and played basketball. It was a lot of fun!
After they left, we went to the Edward's home for dinner. Bro. Edwards made
steaks, flattened them and rolled bacon, pickles, cheese and mustard in them. It
is supposedly a German dish and it was amazing! Then, we had cake with cream
cheese icing!
2-9-16
It was a pretty good day today! We met some nice
people who weren't always interested... But they were nice! Later tonight, we
went over to Juwan's to visit him. We went over the interview questions and
helped prepare him for the actual one on Friday!
2-10-16
We taught the Plan of Salvation to one of the people
we have on date. When we left, the guy said, "next time y'all come over, I'll
have something to share with you!" Haha I wonder what that's going to be. We
went over to a member's for dinner and had some pizza. Then, we went to ward
coordination to address the needs of our investigators and how the ward can
help.
2-11-16
We did quite a bit of ghetto stomping today. We got
some lessons in as well! We decided to go see a less active we have never met
before. I just felt prompted to do so. We knocked on the door and talked to the
lady who answered. She told us that the person we were looking for moved... So
instead, we talked to the lady who was there. She seemed pretty interested in
our lesson and would like for us to come back! It's amazing how much the Spirit
can work with you. As long as you put your trust in those promptings and follow
them, things will work out. It's really neat to see how we are led to certain
people by the Spirit or they are led to us. These people who have been prepared
by Heavenly Father to listen to the message of the restored gospel.
After that lesson, we met a member back at our
apartment and went out teaching with him for a bit!
2-12-16
We had ZTM today and it was awesome! All of our key
indicators as a zone have increased. Afterwards, we went on companion exchanges
with the zone leaders. I stayed in Hartsville. So big news!!.. The District
leader came to Hartsville as well so that he could interview Juwan for baptism!
He is ready and excited to take the step of faith he needs to come closer to
Christ. He requested that I should baptize him! We have had the date set with
him for the 20th of February. It's amazing because Elder Siebers and I started
this goal to pray daily and reason with the Lord on how to accomplish the goal
of baptizing someone by the 20th. Our faith has paid off after we have been
tested and tried. We used faith as a power to accomplish this goal. After the
interview, we went finding for a bit and found 4 new investigators!
2-13-16
Comp. exchanges ended today. We went to drop E.
Lambert off and picked up E. Rose. When we got back, we went tracting and found
a few people to teach. To end the freezing day, we went to a member's home and
visited with them. I got along really well with them. They filled us in on all
the crazy political stuff and all the great movies I'm going to be missing out
on. Haha. We shared one of my favorite scriptures with them (Helaman 5:12) and
talked to them about how a Christlike centered home is so important. We will
build that foundation that will be steadfast and immovable.
2-14-16
Happy Valentine's Day! Church went really well today.
I wrote our Juwan's program for his baptism and a couple people to make some
desserts for it. They announced his baptism time at church, so I really hope a
lot of people show up! After church, we went over to see the Thompson's and have
lunch with them. They grilled up some steaks! It was around 28° today, so biking
was freezing! This humidity makes it so much colder too... We knocked into a
Jehovah's Witness today and that was interesting! They have such a cynical view
of Christ. It makes it difficult to no just unleash a bunch of doctrine on them,
but that would just make them mad. We are told to stay away from bible bashing.
Haha so I just shared my testimony and told her to have a good day. We ended up
teaching a total of 20 lessons this week! Most of them are from tracting, but we
are going to focus on getting more members our teaching with us next week.
-Elder Mitchell
