So Elder Hickey's letter was a little longer so I put some titles if you wanted to just pick and choose to read what you wanted to, but I think it is all fantastic!
Investigators
James and Claira they are in there twentys and they have a baby boy that is one year old (James junior) and James has a word of wisdom issue and another thing that is holding them back from being baptized so we have a little work with them. Claira is really shy, she wouldn't read our say a prayer in front of us but yesterday we got her to read and maybe later she will pray. We have taught them the first two lessons. They are progressing slowly and we are trying to get them to church but James sometimes works on Sunday. We have David and Tristin smith his son that we are teaching. The dad wants his son and Tristin wanted to be baptized so we set a baptismal date for June 18th. The dad has been through alot so we hope Tristin will get baptized. we just tracted into a couple and they are trying to find the true church and a church that the members welcome and they can feel loved, and peace and they said they have not been to a church like that forever and they said there is probably no church like that and we said we promise when you go to our church you will feel welcomed, loved, peaceful, and you can feel the spirit but she did not come to church yesterday, she probably had something come up, we are going to try to bring them to next sunday. They said if that is what our church is like and it is true than they want to be baptized and be strong in the church and they will bring there whole family (cousins, aunts, uncles, etc.) they are trying to find a church for them and do you know what that means, a ton of baptisms, we are going do our best to get them to church and they so far like and agree of what we believe and have taught them. we have taught them the first lesson, families, and prophets. we are teaching Nicholas Moore he is twenty and he wants to go on a mission but he has a smoking problem and he is trying to quit and we are trying to get him to read the Book of Mormon and he has not been to church in a long time and we got him to church this week which was awesome. He has a lot of questions and the last time we where over there he opened the book of mormon and started to read and his questions were being answered and that was so cool. the ward has 210 active members and 600 less active or part members. a lot of the time when we go to some of them they don't answer the door or they say don't visit us anymore, some just say they are busy all the time which they are not, some we have got in and got to meet them.
Splits and a Miracle
we where on splitz in Lumberton, Texas and we where tracting on this one street and me and the other companion said and kept repeating in our head that the Lord has prepared someone on this street and that we know he has. we started to knock on the doors and the first one we didn't even get to the door and the lady said get out of here right know. we left and went to the next doors, some people were not there and then some people say they are not interested, this one guy was outside and we started to walk to him and said how are youd doing and he said i'm not interested and we stared to head to the next door and he said they are not interested, we where confused so we kept walking, then he repeated himself and said they are family and not interested and I just thought that he was taking away there free agency. so there was three houses left and we knocked on the door and the Lady came to the door and we said how are you doing? she said fine and we said we are missionaries from the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and we are going around and sharing a message about Jesus Christ, That he is of great value and importance and can we come in and share more about our message and she said yeah I always have time for people that is sharing a message about Jesus Christ and we taught her the first lesson and she really loved it and was interested in it. At the end of the lesson, we set up a baptismal date for June 30th and she accepted, so know the Lumbeton elders are working with her. That was so cool because faith is so cool if you put faith in him and believe then miracles will come and he will show and guide you to the people that are ready.
The Power of Service
This other time I was on exchanges and we biked to the other side of Lumbeton to meet this one family but they were not there so we decided we would tract while we go back to our apartment so we met this one lady about in her 60's and she was not that interested in our message. she talked about how they are still cleaning up from the hurricane in 2005. I said we do free service and we are willing to help you and tears started to come out of her eyes. than she started to say how grateful for what we were doing going out and sharing the gospel and helping other people, than she gave us cold water and she said thankyou for not preaching about my smoking, we said your welcome. I don't know if she called the elders to help her. but that was so cool. where just one thing can trigger them and they want to know more, like service, and a member in our ward said he was not interested at all and his wife had the missionaries over to teach her and he would pop in every so often and when he heard that families can be togther forever, he started to listen and he wanted to be baptized, we just have to follow the spirit and have the spirit on what they need to hear.
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