This last week was
good. We were able to have a good, sit-down lesson with Samantha, so
that was really sweet. We talked about the Plan of Salvation, and I
think she really liked it.
Tuesday
was on the rough side. A lot of stuff fell through, so we spent a lot
of time tracting and riding our bikes in the rain. Yes, Michigan has
rain storms in July. It's so great! ;) But what's cool is that things
started turning around after that! We had interviews with President
Gerber on Wednesday,
and those were really good, and President Gerber gave me some good tips
on how I can stay motivated and keep the "fire" burning. So far, it
really has helped. Elder Williams and I have been working very hard
lately, and we found one of the coolest people that either of us have
worked with thus far. So here's the story on how we found her-
Wednesday night at about 8:15,
we were riding around not too far from our apartment trying to figure
out where we were going next. We decided that we were going to go
finding, but we weren't sure where. So we were stopped on our bikes on
the sidewalk, and while figuring out where to go, we would try to talk
to any people that would walk by us. So during this, we see a lady
that's probably in her 20's that running on the other side of the road.
The problem was is that she was dressed in running attire, which isn't a
lot... and that's very awkward for a missionary to just walk up to and
talk to someone that's dressed like that. (The For the Strength of Youth
guidelines are there for a reason. Please follow them.) So we were like
"Yeah, we're not talking to her". So she kept running, and we kept
standing there until we decided to go tract at an apartment complex that
was a little ways down the road. After getting there and deciding where
to start, we knock a whole building without anybody even talking to us
for more than 3 seconds, so we move on to the next building, and on the
first door we knock on, guess who answers? The girl that was running!
Well now we kind of have to talk to her because we knocked on her door
and stuff, so I start talking about the Book of Mormon, and show her a
pass along card with the BoM on it, and then I asked her if she would be
interested in learning more, which is something I don't usually do,
because more or less everyone will say no, but I asked her anyway. She
seemed really uninterested and closed off this whole time, but she
looked at the picture of the BoM for like 30 seconds, and we could
almost see the Holy Ghost whispering in her ear say "Come on, say yes.
You know you want to!" And at the end of the 30 seconds, she looked up
and said "Yeah"! So we talked to her about the Restoration and stuff for
about 45 minutes on her door step. It was really cool though, because
whenever we would ask her a question or something, she would pause for
at least 20 seconds, just thinking about her answer, and when after one
of us would testify or something, she would turn to the other and ask
what their thoughts were on the subject, so we would testify some more!
We didn't give her a BoM right then, but set up a time when we could
drop one off to her. So we came by on Friday
to drop off a Book of Mormon, and she was really excited to get into it
and learn for herself! She also has a masters in mechanical engineering
and works for Ford, so that made it really easy for me to relate :)
We also had a great Plan of Salvation lesson with Samantha, and
it's been FOREVER since we've been able to have a good sit-down lesson,
so that was really nice.
Amber came to church again, and even brought her boyfriend's mom along! She's awesome!
Did any of you get your free Slurpee on 7-11? Because we sure did! :)
A
less-active/part-member family took us to a Mongolian Grill restaurant
that was delicious. It was super nice of them to take us there.
On Saturday
the Ward a little picnic, and one of the boys in the Ward got his
mission call that morning, so he just brought it and opened it in front
of everyone. He got called to the SLC, Utah mission :) Pretty much the
same place that his dad went to on his mission. He enters the MTC in
September, so we're making sure to bring him to some lessons to help
break him in to the teaching aspect of missionary work.
TTYL,
~Elder Roderer
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