Good morning everybody! This last week was full of tender mercies and interesting experiences.
On Wednesday we went on exchanges, I went to the District Leader's area (which is a Spanish area), and I was with his companion Elder Swinney. Elder Swinney is a ton of fun to be around because he loves to joke around.
At the end of the night we went to see a potential investigator with a member, but when we got there nobody answered the door. We left, and when we got in to the parking lot walking toward our car this man started yelling at us saying "Hey! Seriously just come here! I'm about to blow a blood vessel just get over here!" We were really confused and a little bit scared, but we started walking toward him and as we got closer he said, still shouting, " Just pray with me! I really just need someone to pray with me!" So we said a prayer with him and taught him a little about Christ and we went on our way. It was a good reminder of the peace that a knowledge of what Christ can bring.
We taught Yojham 3 times last week. He is still doing really well and has such a powerful desire to learn more about the gospel. He has said he feels like it is true and he wants the gospel in his life but before he gets baptized he wants to know more about the history of the church. So that is a big focus of what we have been teaching him. I love going to see him! Every time we leave I feel so happy because he is so happy and all that happiness comes to us because we are all trying to come closer to Christ.
Sunday was probably the best day of the week. We taught the man that stopped us while he was jogging last Saturday. So we taught him, his wife Emily, and they invited their friend Tommy. They are all very religious and the religion they believe in is very similar to ours. They are very easy to teach because they have a really good foundation that we are building off of. We taught them the Restoration and by the end of the lesson you could see these little changes start to happen inside of them. It was really interesting to see how at first they were a little skeptical and just trying to learn more of what we believed, then at the end they were saying that it could be true.
After we left there we had this feeling that we needed to visit a less active family. So, that is what we did. We knocked on the door and they let us in and we talked to them about hope. The family is an older lady who is the mom and her 35ish year old son. The son has had a really hard time lately. At first talking about the gospel made him a little uncomfortable but by the end he seemed a little more open to it.
Then we left there and a member wanted to take us to see one of his home teaching families that is less active. So we showed up and talked to them about Christmas and asked them if they needed help with anything. We talked to them about why they weren't coming to church and they said that they had been offended by someone and they were really hurt about it so they didn't want to have to see that person at church, so they don't come. We shared our testimonies and hopefully we can help them get back to church.
Well those were just a few of the exciting points of this last week. Hope y'all have great week!
Love,
Elder Harper
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