Elder Barlow and I had a great experience yesterday. Sunday morning we had a meeting at 10 am, so we looked outside and it was all nice and sunny and we didn't have the car but that was okay, because it was a beautiful morning. We jumped on our bikes and started riding. It was only like a seven and a half minute ride. Two minutes into our ride it started to sprinkle. We looked at each other in panic and we started to pedal as fast as we could but it didn't do much good because it started POURING. It has been a long time either of us had laughed that hard. Pretty quick we were soaked and there was just nothing we could do, so we kept going. A quarter mile from the church it completely stopped raining and it was back to sunshine for the rest of the day!
Then Sunday night was a party! There is a Senior couple in our ward named the Junckers. They are the best! Every Sunday they have a bunch of single marines over for dinner and we go and share a message and hopefully give them a chance to feel the Spirit. Usually there is like 10 - 15 people there, but last night there were 22 people there. Lots of new faces and a few guys brought some friends, so we had a good amount of non-members there. I don't really know how it started, but the gospel was brought up, and s lesson was started, and it was just crazy. There was one point where I was at one table with Elder Juncker teaching a lesson, and Elder Barlow was sitting at another table with an RM Marine and another member named Brooke, teaching a different lesson. To top the night off, one of the non-member friends taught us about the forgiveness of Christ and told us basically his entire life story. It was a pretty great night.
Then on Wednesday we were out knocking doors and we felt impressed to go to this one very specific area, so we went. The second door we knocked on we started talking to this lady and she was super nice, but not really interested. We invited her to church she was all like "you would have to talk to my husband about that, he is a professional MMA fighter." I don't know if she was trying to scare us or what, but we were super pumped to talk to him, so she went inside and he came out and we got to talking. He was super nice. He is a Christian fighter and gets a lot of crap for it when he goes to fights. Then after a little while a lady showed up and she was SUPER interested in getting her life straightened out. We told her that is exactly why we were there. The next day she met us at the church with the Junckers and we taught her about the addiction recovery class that the Junckers teach every week and about the gospel. She was crying and feeling the Spirit and it was just great!
Hope y'all have a blessed week!
Elder Harper
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