Wake Forest - Week 17 (Training Week 10)

Hey Everyone,

Last week was a blast!

We knocked on a lot of doors and were told some not so nice things, but it's okay because they don't understand...yet!!!

So, I don't know if I have mentioned it before, but we have a Baptist Seminary in our area.  Sometimes we have a run in with some of the students.  They are all studying to become pastors, so they think they are real smart. We went to see one on Tuesday because we get a referral for him. He was actually super polite and wasn't familiar with what we believed. It ended up being a good visit.

On Wednesday we had a Zone Conference in Raleigh. While we were all sitting in the conference and people were putting black boxes in all the missionary cars. Black boxes are used to monitor peoples driving... Luckily I am a good driver! :) If you speed excessively or drive aggressively or forget to log in with your card or don't buckle your seat belt, it tells you what you are doing or not doing, in a really scary sounding voice. It only talked to me once the whole week! 

On Thursday we were out tracting and we found a Baptist Pastor that I am pretty sure would come to our church if we offered him a paid position!!!  He is one of my favorite people we have met.

On Friday and Saturday some other missionaries had some baptisms and we were able to get Christian to one both nights and Andrew to the one on Saturday. Their Mom is against the church so it was a wonderful miracle that she let them come. Their older brother told them that the baptism would be done wrong because it wouldn't be done in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost. After the ordinance Christian turned to us with a big smile on his face and told us about what his brother said. Then on Sunday I got to Confirm Shamia and Shamona, they were the two people that got baptized on Friday. Giving blessings is always a lot of fun and the Spirit is so powerful

My ponderizing scripture this week is Romans 8:24-25:

 "For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it."
Love y'all!

Love,
Elder Harper