Sounds like everything's going well at home! Everybody is super excited for summer I bet! I remember how excited I got for summer and how short it usually went haha! But don't listen to me. EFY is pretty awesome Ann!
This week was sweet! It was one of those weeks where you are just super exhausted at the end of the week because you worked really hard! It feels good! This week we found 2 new investigators. The first one is Jay. She is an African American lady who really loves God and Jesus Christ and who wants to come closer to them. She is living with her fiance and her son, and her son has a ton of questions about the Gospel that Jay doesn't know the answer to so she asks us and we answer them! She has a health condition where she has to go to physical therapy and she needs to walk to stay healthy. Jay had never heard of the Book of Mormon and when we told her about it and explained what it was she said "Why don't more people know about this?? This is awesome we need this!" Haha we were pumped to hear that. She needs someone to walk with her so that she has the motivation to do it so she was like "You guys can be my walking buddies!" And so we agreed and went walking with her. While we walked we taught her the Restoration and it was one of the best lessons I've been able to have. The whole thing made perfect sense to her and she had the perfect questions and the perfect answers to our questions! At the end of the lesson we invited her to baptism and she said "Wait a minute I've already been baptized though, do I have to be baptized again then?" And we explained the authority and told her that she did need to be baptized again and she was like "Yeah ok I can do that! Wait a minute do ya'll baptize, because when I was baptized it was in a river and I ain't gonna do that again!" Then we explained the baptismal font and she was like "Oh ok I like that!" Haha so she's super ready and we are excited to keep teaching her this week!
The other new guy that we met is Norman Flaiz. He hasn't been to a church in a while but he had some questions about God. His biggest one was why do bad things happen to good people. He related a story to us that he had heard on the news about someone innocent being murdered and he just couldn't understand why God would allow that to happen. So we pulled out some scriptures in the Book of Mormon and helped him answer his question. It was cool because just a couple days earlier I was studying the questions of the soul section in Chapter 5 of PMG, so we were able to answer the question clearly! But he committed to read the BOM and next time we go over there we are going to teach him the Restoration.
We did a ton of tracting this week in the hot sun, and I'm getting more and more tan! Met some crazy people and some normal people but I love El Paso! We have zone conference coming up this week and I'm excited to see what's in store for that! We have been working a ton with the members and helping them to do missionary work. Sometimes that can be hard but the members are doing a good job at inviting their friends and fellowshipping our investigators. I would invite all of you guys to do missionary work! Share the Gospel with others and I promise you'll be happy! I'm so lucky to be able to be a missionary and I can't wait to continue to share the Gospel after my mission! I love and miss all of you guys and hope all is well! Keep doing what's right, and I'll talk to you later!
Love Elder Summerhays
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