Wow this week was full of great things! And weird things! Haha on Monday Elder Verdine got some bad news from home and was upset for a little bit, but now he is good and things are looking better at home! Prayer is real! For P-day we went to Amherst and had a small zone gathering and played basketball and chilled with most of the elders in our zone! Sister Firman and Sister Van Kampen were there as well! And we had a crepe eating contest with our bishop and his family! I ate 13and totally won! Haha! Verdine ate 7 and a senior couple, Elder Woodhouse ate 8! That was a lot of fun! Medina is so cool, all the solid members in the ward live here instead of Lockport so we get fed every night! So nice!
Tuesday morning I had the strong impression to go back to one of the houses we tracted on Church Street, so after studies we walked over and knocked on their door! They let us right in and we were able to teach the restoration and put Rowllie and Ruthy on baptism date for Nov. 30 they also are interested in ARP that the church provides so we got them some manuals for them to use! They are way cool! We had district meeting and ward correlation, we went and visited some less actives and one of the sons of Sister Walsh wasn't feeling good at all so we got to give him a priesthood blessing! It was so cool!
Wednesday we had interviews with President Evans! That was really cool, it's always cool to be with and talk with president! He is the man! It was also an interesting day... this old man from Brockport was driving and slammed on his brakes and calls us over and tells us he's a member and talked to us for like 20 minutes on how he doesn't support Romney and he supports Trump, it was really weird! Haha we did some tracting later that day, met a man named Felton Pool who is interested and invited us back to learn more! We drove to Albion to teach Donald and Tessa the word of wisdom and gospel of Jesus Christ! Donald is a less active marrying Tessa, she is not a member. Donald is a huge smoker. We asked him if he would clean up his act so that he would be able to baptize Tessa. He really likes the idea and asked what he had to do so he could! He ate it up and committed to all of it! The church is so true! We then went over to Susan and Cordell's, things aren't good there anymore. Cordel said he did his research on us and thinks we are rapist and cray stuff like that, so we have been trying to clear it all up! Susan is still strong and wants to move out so she can be baptized. So cool! We gave Susan a comfort blessing! She said she slept the best she had in along time! So sick!
Thursday marked 1 month in the field! We had the adjusting to missionary life meeting in the morning! It was way cool! President and Sister Evans gave a sweet training on controlling stress! After the meeting a bunch of us went to IHOP! It was good to see all my MTC buddies! Then we drove back to Medina and had dinner with Susan and talked with her a little more about the situation going on. After dinner we drove up to Yates to see Scott Smith and we taught him and his dad Adam the word of wisdom, and law of chastity in one night!
Haha! It went really good and he committed to live them! He is so sick! He will get baptized. Then we had exchanges! I went to Lockport with Elder Shaw! Shaw is from Ketchikan, Alaska! So cool! It was a lot of fun, Elder Shaw is just barely finishing training he's been out for 11 weeks! So we are both still pretty new so we didn't know what was going on! Haha! we were walking around Saturday and this young guy
pulls his car over, yells over at us and says he wants to talk with us! So of course we did. The first thing he asked was if this makes us happy, I immediately replied and said oh yeah! Nothing I'd rather be doing. But long story short he just felt bad for us because he knows a lot of people slam the door in our face so he was being nice and talked with us. Haha for the most part Saturday was slow cause there was nothing really planned!
Sunday was so sweet! We had 4 investigators at church! Another investigator we got was a referral from awhile ago but Elder Verdine taught him the restoration while I was in Lockport and put him on date for Nov. 19! He is awkward but way cool! He will be baptized as well, he is solid! We had like the most effective weekly planning session ever Sunday as well, we didn't finish it all on Friday so we split into 2 different days! Well there's my week! It was awesome!
Just wanna let y'all know that I know this church is true, no doubt in my mind that Joseph Smith saw God the Father and Jesus Christ in the sacred grove. I have been there and the feeling that you get is undeniable. I know the Book of Mormon is the true word of god. I'm grateful for god's love for me and the atonement. I'm grateful for Jesus Christ and the foot steps he left behind for all of us to follow. There is no evidence that this church isn't true, that is something I have come to know these past couple weeks. It's so amazing to be able to be a representative of Jesus Christ. This truly is the lord's church. It would've crashed long ago if it was supported by God and Jesus Christ. They are the creators, they know all things. And love
all of us very much.
I love and miss all of you and hope your week is great!
Love,
ELDER JUDY
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