Helloooooo!
This
week was pretty good! We were pretty busy most of the week. But it was
so cool! We saw a couple miracles! So on Tuesday we were thinking of
what we could do that day, and we had this "unknown" list, basically a
list of people's records the ward has received, and they aren't active,
so they have no idea who they are. So we decided to stop by one of them
in Camarillo and her name was Ayla. She had been living there for about 6
months and we set up an appointment to meet with her the next day at
the church. Aparently she got baptized about 4 years ago, then her
really good friend who baptized her went on his mission almost 2 years
ago, and she moved shortly after, and lost contact with the church,
until we came knockin on her door. So we went to the church the next day
and had a great lesson. We went over the Restoration and watched a
little video with her. At the end of the lesson, we knelt down for the
prayer and asked her to pray and she kinda resisted, then we kind of
encouraged her a bit, and she opted to say the prayer. It was such a
great prayer! The spirit touched her and she started crying a bit, and
she thanked Heavenly Father for sending us to her to reach out to her.
And she works usually every Sunday and she asked that she would get work
off this week so she could come back to church. THEN! She got her
schedule and didn't have work yesterday (: Hallelujah! So she was at
church! It was her first time in a singles ward, so it was probably
different for her but she enjoyed it!
Desiree
was also at church! She is set for baptism on the 29th (: She wanted to
see someone else get baptized first before her date.... but there
arent' any going on... so we'll have to talk to her about that. But she
is doing so good! During church yesterday, she called for Ayla and had
her sit next to her during relief society. She is so great! We will be
seeing her a couple times this week.
So
yeah! Setting up the booth/table at the campus went really good! We
made a couple really good contacts. For about an hour of it though I was
talking to this guy named Patrick... He was bible bashin' pretty hard.
Hahah it made me laugh afterwards though, because he kept saying (keep
in mind he's a surfer) "Bro, I know
that there are things in the Book of Mormon that contradict the Bible
so it's not true" and I would keep answering him, "well, have you read
it?" ...."well, no" "Have you prayed about it?" "Um.. no" "Then how do
you really know if you haven't even sought it out and asked God?" Haha
we repeated that at least 4 times in the conversation... but towards the
end he ended up taking a Book of Mormon to read it after rejecting it
multiple times. My companion was talking to his buddy for like 15
minutes... I was pretty occupied, but Elder Robison said that the guy he
was talking to was getting soooo mad! He said that he could see veins
popping out of his forehead! Ha It was fun (:
We
had a really good lesson with a girl named Nichole! She is sooo funny!
She was being taught by some Sisters in a family ward, but she is YSA
age, so the sisters thought she would enjoy the YSA ward better. She we
had a "hand-off" lesson where we and the sisters were there at a members
house. She is great! She came to church yesterday and she seemed to
really enjoy it!
But
yeah I always wish I had more time to go more in depth about my week.
We've got another busy week this week. Zone conference is on Wednesday
so that should be great!
In
church yesterday we talked a lot about prayer and how it is almost
always answered in a way we wouldn't expect. The teacher of sunday
school told us of something cool. He said "God only has 3 answers that
He gives us. 1. Yes 2. Not yet and 3. I have something better for you."
And It's sooo true! Everything that happens is for our benefit whether
we know it or not. I have definitely learned that so much on my mission!
Thank you for all your love and support! You are in my thoughts and prayers! Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Teeples (:
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| The district! |
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| And this one may or may not be exaggerated a little bit.... (; |
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| This is how OCD my companion is...(neat and tidy altoids) |
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