Hey Yall! SO...the world didn't end! Yippee! haha! This has been another exciting week in Pensacola, FL! The work is doing great! Things are moving forward. Elder Haderlie says after this next transfer I will be leaving and training again. AH! If so it might be a good idea, I sure do need to develop patience. Elder Haderlie calls me out on it. But I did learn a great lesson this week, actually Saturday, and that was, to always be thorough. Never missing an opportunity. If we ever see someone who needs help, or someone passes by, we must always open our mouths or run and help. One experience I will relate is from Saturday, we went to go and visit a potential investigator who was not home, while we were knocking on the door their neighbor gets home, we walk away to go visit a member and then I look back and see the neighbor getting groceries my mind immediately thought of the movie the District which is the life of a few missionaries its a training video, well some missionaries stop and help someone with groceries, and well as I contemplated, "will it matter? She might just be mad. " Etc. During my thoughts she dropped some flour on the ground and it hit me, "go help" so i ran over and helped her pick up the flour and asked if she would like help bringing the rest in, she said no, but agreed that I would walk her flour to the door and set it down for her so she didn't have to walk all the way back, she ended up letting us in and asking alot of questions, turns out the only thing she knew about mormons was what she learned from watching south park, so we helped her understand the truth, she also told us the only reason she let us in was because on the way home she was praying for some kind of help, we met her husband and invited them to church, we have a return appointment and well she was interested. They didn't come to church but also another experience was just after that we went to go visit another potential investigator and they weren't home either, we did have a refferal to visit a less active about 2 or 3 houses down and we thought...no, we need to be focused on finding new investigators. we drove away and after about 2 minutes said, nope! turn around. We went to the refferal and found him home, turns out he is a truck driver and is only home two days outa the month, if that. Also he is married and has a 15 year old daughter. We visited with the family and it was awesome! The wife opened up and pretty much told the husband to go back to church and become active again, I could see the excitement in her eyes to make a change, she is catholic but doesn't believe the church, and oh my! We are going to return and teach her more, she is so awesome! That family could become eternal! :D That filled me with joy. Tony, our recent converts mom is sick and she is paralyzed and the other day she fell and broke her arm. when we went to see Tony she wanted us to come and see her, we did and she talked to us as if she was about to die, it was hard to listen but she expressed her love for tony and her husband and asked us to pray for them. We have informed the ward and have asked that they come in and be a huge support for them in this time. I pray they do so. The work is great, it is true. I can't get over our last Zone Conference it was awesome! We are here to be bold! Yes! We have two baptisms coming up June 4th and also June 11th (if they come to church again) then one scheduled for June 25th. I hope these come through, these folks need to be baptized to enter into the Celestial kingdom. Thank you all for the support! I love yall! Have a great week!

 

Love,

Elder West