Hey Family,
Congrats to the kids on the W in the turkey bowl and to Ann for the W in the dessert contest! It sounds like Thanksgiving was awesome! That's cool that Great Grandma Markle and Tyler were there at Grandma Deb's! That's awesome too that Ty is getting married soon! Elder Worley and I always pull out the Chewy impression haha!
This week was really good! We were able to meet with Robert Jones and his family. We dropped by on Friday and they were just getting ready to leave to Colorado to go see some evangelical conference where some guy gives a big sermon. We think it’s a dumb idea first of all because they have no money, neither of them work and the tickets are $200 and they don’t have money for gas to get back or a place to stay when they get there, and second of all because the guy giving the sermon is probably a moron who just wants money and fans. They were like “We’re just going to take a leap of faith and go for it!:D” when or if they get back we are going to have to explain faith to them again… Anyways we shared a short message with them and said a prayer with them before they left. We got to meet with Emily and her family this week as well. We have been reviewing the lessons with her just to refresh and get her ready for her baptism! She is excited and nervous for the baptism which is natural. The High Range ward does a sweet job at fellowshipping so there should be a pretty big turnout at the baptism! It’s pretty cool to teach her because her parents are returning less active members and her grandma is not a member but she is super religious, so every time we teach all of them bring up good questions sometimes deep ones about the gospel and it is good for the whole family not just Emily!
We also picked up a couple new investigators this past week. The first one’s name is Florence. She was referred to us by some Spanish sister missionaries who knocked on her door and OYMed her and she said that we could come back. So we went and contacted her with a member and were able to go in and teach her the Restoration. She is a little bit crazy but the lesson went really well and she cried at the first vision and told us that she wants to feel God’s love in her life! So we promised her that she could. Her only concern is church, she said that she doesn’t like going to church because the pastor or whoever speaks always gets up there and preaches about how we should live our lives and then he goes out the next day and drinks and parties and is a total hypocrite haha. So we explained that The Church of Jesus Christ is different than other churches and that she won’t see that in our church! So we hope to eventually get her to come, and she also said that she wants us to teach her daughter next time too so that will be sweet! The other new investigator that we found is Arsenio. He was referred to us by the same sister missionaries. He is a single guy probably in his late 20’s or early 30’s who has met with missionaries before and who is looking for the truth in his life. He had been taught the Restoration before but he didn’t remember most of it so we went over it again, and the Spirit was super strong during the lesson! At the end we focused on prayer and reading the BOM and we asked him what he thought about the lesson and he said “I think that I need to spend more time reading the Book of Mormon and really pray about it.” And we were pumped and testified like crazy! It was sweet and we have another meeting with him on Sunday so we are excited to follow up with him on his BOM reading!
Geronimo ended up moving back out to the reservation to live with his mom so that kinda stinks… other than that our week was pretty sweet! It’s so cool to see how when you work hard, the Lord blesses you in so many different ways. Like we have been tracting and contacting a TON in the last couple weeks which I actually love to do, but we haven’t seen too much success from it, besides a couple potential investigators, but because we are working God is rewarding us in different ways, like we’ve gotten a ton of solid referrals and we have a lot of investigators come to church and just a ton of different ways. It’s just cool to see that when we not only have faith but show our faith Heavenly Father will help us and strengthen us! Anyways, I love you all and thanks for everything you do for me! Talk to you later.
Love Elder Summerhays
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