Man the 4th of July is probably my favorite holiday! I love the Kaysville parade! Looks like you guys had an awesome time! Elder Mapes and I saw a couple fireworks from our apartment last night. It was funny because we were just sitting out on our porch watching them and then one of our neighbors just gets home and comes on over and jumps onto our railing and just sits there and starts venting to us about how bad of a 4th of July he had haha! It was good though because we eventually got around to talking with him about the Gospel and about God and stuff, and he said he wants to hear more! It was pretty sweet.
This week was really good! We were able to set a baptismal date with Fred! He finally admitted that he believes that the Book of Mormon is true. He said "There's just no way a young guy in New York in 1820 could have just wrote this book." It's super awesome to hear investigators admit that the Book of Mormon is true! It strengthens your testimony of it! So Fred's date is for July 23 he is praying about whether that's the right date or not, so we're going to meet with him this week again and figure it all out!
We also have two more baptismal dates set with investigators named Bruce and Jay. They are a couple who really love hearing the word of God. They were both raised in the south as baptists and they love the Lord. We taught them the Restoration this week, and we had taught Jay it before but Bruce had never heard it. They both loved it and believed it, so we invited them to be baptized and they said they would! So we set a date for July 30 and they said that they would prepare for that day! We also have another guy on date for the 30th whose name is Allen Green! He works for border patrol and he's just a super nice and humble guy. We've taught him a couple times but he has read all the way through 1 Nephi! He loves the Book of Mormon and he has super good questions about it whenever we come over. He is definitely going to be baptized on the 30th! We are going to teach him the Plan of Salvation this week and continue to prepare him for his date!
We also met with Mark again this week. He continues to have questions but the good thing about it is that he's actually studying and not just going to the internet for his answers! It's crazy how true the Gospel is! Answering his questions and talking with him, even though some of his questions could be offensive or are maybe rude about the church, just confirms my testimony of the truthfulness of the Gospel! There is so much evidence I don't even see how anyone can deny it!
Anyways, I love all of you guys and hope all is well! Talk to you later!
Love Elder Summerhays
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