So this week has been pretty crazy!!! so as most of you know
i got my bike stolen two weeks ago and are still waiting to get one. and we
baked cookies for the guy that works at chick fillet that brought us a whole
bag of food. it felt great and he will soon be baptized i can feel it! we felt
a spirit very thick with one lesson with this investigator with a member
present and he did amazing and he really brought the spirit in when he
bore his testimony about what this gospel has done to his life. and i used one
of Elder Bednars quotes from conference about how the investigators baptism
isnt a heavenly point for us it was very amazing. Wednesday was a very
spiritual day! so we did service at the ronald mcdonald home and then we
started walking to our next appointment 1 hour away and as we had like 45
minutes left the YSA zone leaders (young single adult) drove by and asked if we
would like a ride we said of course when we got dropped off this older couple
were getting out of their car so we approached them and asked if they wanted a
prayer and the lady said yeah! and then the husband walked around whom we have
talked with before said no and she said i said yes! so we prayed and asked if
they would like to hear our message, she said well if you got time right now
come on in so we went in and taught them the restoration. it was a very
spiritual lesson and we set a baptism date! and extended the invitation to go
to church as well and they come to church yesterday!!! we are planning on
seeing them tonight! so wednesday was an amazing day! Thursday my trainer was
in louisville for training so i was on an exchange in nicholasville for the day
and it ended up being two greenys in the area it was crazy!but we had a very
productive and spiritual day! i have learned so much on every exchange i have
been on! i love them! and we had a guy yell at us i got pretty intense for a
second! i got to teach the word of wisdom and learned a really cool 15 step
program to quite smoking! on friday we had district meeting so i was back with
my trainer. and i learned a lot in his training and friday we met with this
asain guy who at first was athiest! and it was interesting at the beginning but
at the end of the lesson we had him praying and making commitments to pray and
also read the Book of Mormon. it was a very spiritual lesson! saturday we met
with a lot of less actives and had a lot of great experiences but not a single
lesson and we had a member out with us for 4 hours and not a single member
present lesson! but we ended the day great with a zone prayer! it was a very
spiritual experience and i'm glad we decided to start doing those! Then sunday
the true test day for our bap dates came. and they showed up! it was a very
happy moment!!! and so we had church and the guy said well elders i think we
have found our new church. so i know they are getting baptized! just need to
keep teaching them the lessons and our ward is so welcoming and friendly, and
they enjoyed and had a great experience with testimony meeting. so after church
we had a member drop us off at an apartment complex that is a 2 hour walk. so
it was super nice! and we finally got back into contact with this couple we had
lost contact with due to the fact that we dont have any bikes and had a great
talk with him and i am very confident in him that he and his girl friend will
be baptized after they are married. then we had dinner with a member and we
were asked to teach a lesson on prayer for them. and it was an amazing prayer!
i got to share an experience ive had with prayer since being in the mission
field. and it was amazing! but seems how we cant spend forever there we had
some members take us to the guy that started out athiest and just as we
got dropped off his boy got dropped off and he started running to the back of
the house then we heard the dad yell and so we ran around and he had crawled up
a ladder into a tree getting his apples out of his apple tree so we went over
and assisted him out of the tree then we talked with him about what he thought
of the things we had him read and he said they were really good and is
interested but is leaving for china this week and wont be back until
november!!! i hope we don't lose him! he was making so much progress!! but i
still have faith! till next week!
Sincerely,
Elder Durfee
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