Week Forty-three:  10 New Potentials [May 21, 2018]

Hi Everyone! 

This week has been a great week for finding! 

On Tuesday I went on exchanges with Elder Horman. While on exchanges we were able to get 8 new potential investigators in his area. One of them let us in and we were able to teach her the restoration and the plan of salvation. While we taught the plan of salvation she kept saying "Why have I never heard this before?" She seems super solid and I'm exited to hear how it goes with her in the future. We also got two less active referrals from our dinner appointment. After a very successful day of finding it inspired me to make finding more of a priority. 

Throughout this week we have been knocking on more doors and making more of an effort to talk with everyone we see. As of yesterday we've been able to find 10 new potentials in our area. One of them who we found walking around had a lot of questions and we were able to teach her the restoration. She asked for a Book of Mormon and was very open to us coming back! This week we've been able to see the hand of the Lord in our finding efforts. It feels that either these people have been lead to us or we've been lead to them. I think the biggest thing we've changed is our attitude towards finding and showed the Lord we were more willing to do what he wants us to do. 

Aside from that we were able to have another lesson with Judy on the temple and family history. Her temple trip will be a little further off than we originally thought since she wants to learn more about the temple before she gets a temple recommend. I'll keep you posted on how things go. 

Aside from those things not a bunch happened. We talked twice with a potential named Cathy we found a while back and got to know her better. We also did more service for Lynn and unexpected service for a less active getting him some gas for his lawn mower. We weren't able to meet with Jeff and Heidi again since Saturday was his son's birthday and Sunday they weren't home. 

That's basically it for this week! Hopefully you had a great week as well! 

Until next time, 

Elder Jason Riches