Driving in hailstorm...
Tracting with Elder Galloway
B baptism
Elder Galloway, G and Elder Pearson
As you can see, he was finally able to email some pics!!!
HEY-O! How is everyone doing back yonder? Hope everything is going great though! =D Life here in the mission is crazy and the best as always!
There is so much that has happened this week that I’m not exactly sure where to start.... This week we have had some really big tornado and lightning storms! Elder Galloway and I had an awesome adventure of driving through one of them! It was raining so much that there were rivers flowing on each side of the streets, and hail that was as big as GOLF BALLS!?!? I thought that I was in the wizard of Oz or something LoL. We had to check on some of the areas that were around us to make sure that they were ok. Some of the sisters in Greeneville had to spend the night in the bathtub in case the storm got any closer. All is well though.
throughout the week Elder Galloway and I had the chance to go and teach at Volunteer High School! One of the physiology teachers was having different preachers come in to share about their basic beliefs. For three days we got to go in, share our message for a while and then open it up to questions... He told us to make sure that we always start off by saying " Our Church believes..." Right before we answered a question just for legal reasons. ( I think the questions were my favorite) We were asked things like "Do you have to grow a beard to be in your church?" or "I heard that Mormons have to pray over their underwear to give it secret powers, is that true?" haha.. There were some serious questions too, but I liked those ones too.
After that we went to see and teach B B all this week.
Last week B had walked up to our mission leader and told him that she wanted to be baptized!!!! So we went over to see where she was at and what all we needed to teach her.
We started talking about the spirit, the role it has and if she had felt it before in her life? She wasn’t really sure if the spirit had ever really talked to her before. We talked about, how somewhere in her life, the spirit had taught her that Jesus was the Christ.
We talked about the feelings she had whenever she had learned about Christ in her life, and found some scriptures to help her recognize that that was the spirit. " B, why do you think God sends the spirit to us?" Maybe to help lead us or something? I’m not sure. "lets open up to Alma 5, and see why God sent the spirit to a man named "Alma" As we read that the spirit was sent to teach him the truth, she knew that that was how she would learn that all these things were true.
As we Got to the 1st vision, we asked "B, we like for you to close your eyes and imagine what happened to this young boy." We started to share the 1st vision. As we ended, we sat there in silence for a good 2 mins. B still had her eyes closed and was picturing it in her mind.. " B.. what feeling did you just feel?" we asked... " I felt a really warm feeling in my chest." B what do you think that is? " I think its the spirit" B, what do you think God is trying to tell you?... B looked down and started to think, she paused and looked up and said "its true.. ITS TRUE!" We asked her when she would like to be baptized and she said "This Saturday!"
On Saturday, B, and G were both baptized and confirmed members of the Church! It was such a good week full of blessings. The Lord wants his children to join his church. Moses 1:39- he really is closer to this work that we can ever know.
I Love you all and I've gotta head to an appointment but keep up the good work.
I Really hope to hear from you all soon! (this means you too!) ;-)
Ps Elder Galloway is in Knoxville. He tore his ACL while playing some basket ball. we drove up to Knoxville to get an MRI and found out it wasn't looking to good. We did an emergency transfer so that he could be closer to the Doctors and so now I'm serving with Elder Lindner. absolutely love this kid! Keep Elder Galloway in your prayers. LOVE YA!!!! WRITE ME =P
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