Haha after that exciting subject line let me now announce
the exciting highlight of the week! The Grindle family came to church
yesterday!!! I was so freaking happy! That was our focus all week was to get
them to church on Sunday and we accomplished it! I'm so happy for them.
Hopefully this will mark more growth and progression from them! Anyhow let's
dive into my week, shall we?
It was a good week. And a strange one, we had an
investigator drop us, and we picked up 2 new really awesome potentials. So,
there was some good things that happened.
The week started off pretty good Tuesday was just your
average Tuesday I guess. We had district meeting, then we had missionary
correlation which was nice. After which we had a lesson with a new investigator
named Michael. He is...... A special case haha. He actually is a homeless man
who just walked in to church one day. He has been attending church for several
weeks now. So, we reached out to him and started teaching him........ I'm not
100% what's up with this guy but he seems to really enjoy the lessons, so we
are going to keep teaching him but he is..... I don't know how to say this without
sounding rude but....... Crazy...... Just for an example. Whilst explaining
Joseph Smith to him, we asked him if he knew who he was. And he looked at us
with a straight face and said "wait, isn't that, John Jacob jingle Himer Schmidt?"
I wish I was making that up. He also pulled out an ear of corn from him
backpack and said that they were lucky and that everyone should have one with
them. My favorite part of the lesson though is when we asked him about who
Jesus was. And his answer was "well, he is a male, he seems like a really
important guy, and he really likes clean feet" let's just say I wrote a
lot in my journal that night. ☺️😆😅😂🤣🤣
ANYWAY, that was my Tuesday. Wednesday, was a little more
sane to say the least, it was actually kind of a frustrating day. We would go
find in an area where we had a lesson set up. And then literally 15 mins before
ever lesson we had planned was canceled, so after we got sad that we got
canceled on we just decided to walk around in that area talking to people and
knocking a few doors. Well that must have been the right thing to do because
everyone someone canceled we were able to have a really good conversation with
someone and even get a return appointment with a few of them. For example, we
were planning on going over to see an investigator named Vernice who we picked
up a couple of days ago, she canceled on us while we were walking to her place.
We decided we would continue to walk and when we did we found Newton! He is a
new investigator, he was super cool and was super interested in the
restoration! He is this really cool guy from Liberia and just wants a better
life. Anyway, we had a lot of cool experiences like that. :) the gospel is so
cool guys!
Thursday, we had Liney Grindle (the mom of the family) pray
for the first time in front of us. We just went over to say hi and to set up a
lesson time. And she told us she was stressed out because her husband lost his
wallet, we asked if she had prayed about it she said she didn't know you could
pray over something that small we told her you can pray over anything so she
prayed and then she found the wallet a little later that day. It was so cool!
She recognized that her prayer was answered. It was just awesome.
Anyway. I'm running out of motivation/stories to tell from
this week so I think it's best to end it here. I love you all! Hope you all
have an amazing day. And remember never to forget what happened this day 16
years ago. And how we as a nation pulled through. Love you all!
-Elder Riley Field
Pictures -
Emily Grindle
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