It's been the best week ever of an ever-increasing streak of best weeks ever! This week was super bomb. Elder McEntire and I are having an incredible time in this area.
One cool thing that happened this week was Roy's baptism interview! He passed, so he'll be getting baptized this coming Saturday! What a great thing. We're really excited for him. We can't slow down though, so we've been pounding the pavement like crazy trying to find new people to teach.
We had a super bomb lesson with Michael this week, too. We haven't been able to meet with him for a while, but now that we have we're working on passing him off to the YSA sisters. He'll fit in a lot better there anyway. We set him with a baptism date in June as well, which we're pretty pumped for. The title of this email is a quote from him! He's a good guy. Definitely getting baptized.
There's a couple out in Lamont that we've been teaching, and we got some really good Intel about them this week from the Spanish elders out there. They're teaching the wife's parents, so they see them a lot, and the investigators confided in them about some of their concerns. We've been kinda stuck with them and have been having a hard time meeting, but this gave us exactly what we needed to know to help them progress.
We also had some really cool chances to see the Spirit direct us to be in the right place to find new investigators. We were in a neighborhood in a far out part of our area to visit a couple people, and we felt pretty cruddy because everything had fallen through. We were walking and could have just gone somewhere else, but felt like we should visit a couple potentials in the area. None of them were there, but at one of the houses there was a super cool lady who we got to teach the restoration to. It put a really genuine smile on her face, which puts the same thing on mine!
Sunday night we had a little time, so we went out to Lamont to try to contact a referral (which was a change of plans from what we'd originally thought of. I just kinda felt like we should go to Lamont.) We were walking down the street and saw a pretty typical sight- a bunch of Latino guys just chilling around a barbeque, blaring music in Spanish. Lamont is mostly Spanish speakers, but Elder McEntire felt like we needed to try to talk to them, and they not only spoke English but were willing to listen and learn more! Tag-team listening to the Spirit. They were the last new investigators we needed to reach our weekly goal, too!
We had zone conference this week, and one of the many things our Mission President asked us to do was to sit down each night and talk about how we'd been guided by the Spirit that day. We're still working in making it a habit, but it's made me recognize a lot more if the gentle nudges we get every day. When we're at peace with ourselves, our companions, the ward, and the Lord, we are guided along the Lord's path without even recognizing it sometimes. It seems so natural to follow the Spirit when you're already trying to go where God wants you to go and say what He wants you to say. It's really a nice thing.
Thanks for all your support everyone!
Elder Adams
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