We had a huge miracle this last week! We had been doing a lot of finding and knocking on doors to find more people to teach which normally works for us, but last week it just wasn't working for us. Nobody was interested in anything we talked to them about, so we were getting a little bummed out when Saturday night rolled around and we had nothing to show for the week. Sunday was a completely different story though. There was a new counselor put into the Bishopric in the ward three weeks ago and the family of the new 2nd counselor invited a non member family to come that they have known forever, and they did. Since then, they have come to church the last 3 weeks in a row and have really enjoyed it every week. We had been trying to set something up with the Jarvis family (members) to teach their friends and have dinner at their house but it hadn't quite worked yet, but then on Sunday everything worked out so we were able to get dinner and we taught this family. It went really well and so we picked up the two parents and their two kids as new investigators! We were definitely rewarded for our efforts throughout the week and we will keep working with them, so all is good! Since then we've been back to our usual finding ways and have found a few through tracting. Same old same old for us, except for Brent and Aimee and Cody and Justin.
Besides them, we didn't have anyone else come to church, but not this upcoming Sunday but next Sunday Crystal should for sure be there and we will probably head up to Kirtland with her after church. We've already got it tentatively scheduled, now we just need a ride up there and her to come for sure and things will all go well.
Speaking of Crystal, we have still been seeing her quite regularly and we were there last night again. She is still just afraid of praying to know if it is true so we've been trying to get her to do that and come to church and read on her own. She is definitely slowly coming around to it and last night when we were there we committed her to be baptized and set a date of August 12th. She knows it's what she needs to do and is just scared of not being good enough for it all. (Random side note, chapter 14 of Preach My Gospel, "Flirt to Convert" is real. Apparently her two daughters are in love with Elder Amparan and I, the 10 year old with Elder Amparan and the 14 year old with me. And some 8 year old kids yesterday asked us if we came from Hollywood because we were dressed so nice hahaha. I love it. And some other random kids a long time ago asked us if we were going to prom together. Good things that happen in Alliance.)
Still working with Luke, still working with the Dawsons, and still being called the pizza guys when we go to meet with Denia (learned how to spell Deena's name the right way now.) She was so close to coming to church on Sunday and it was all planned for her to be there with her three kids, but then she slept in on Sunday and missed her ride to church so that was a little bit of a bummer. But when we met with her on Saturday and were called the pizza guys again, she had read to the end of 1 Nephi 4 and told us that she has never been able to understand the Bible but she fully understands and follows what she is reading in the Book of Mormon. Since the first time we met her we taught her a brief version of the Restoration, we decided to reteach it more in depth and really focus on the Priesthood and Baptism and then committed her to be baptized on August 19th. She will hopefully be at church this coming Sunday as well!
Little update on Jean: She is finished with 2 Nephi and starting into Jacob and said that she is starting to believe that the Book of Mormon is true and she said that she would highly consider being baptized as well. Still working with her. All is well.
Love,
Elder Woodward
Pictures: Stopped by a train again. The days of Tiffin and Fostoria aren't over.
A raccoon that Brother Fisher caught and we had to let out because they were on vacation
Me and Elder Amparan waiting for the train to pass
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