Week Forty-five:  Here I'll Stay [June 4, 2018]

Hi Everyone! 

This week has been great! Here's what happened. 

A  few weeks ago some members told us about a former investigator that they've seen a few times. We were able to meet him and this last Tuesday we were able to teach him and get to know him better. His name is Fred and he's pretty cool. He promised his wife (who was LDS) that he would get baptized and sealed to her before she died. We taught him the restoration and he agreed with it all. He even said that he believed that if there was one true church, he believed it would be ours. We have an appointment with him this week too so we're both exited to see how that goes. 

When we did service for Lynn this week we were able to tell him how the missionary program works and what we do as missionaries. We're hoping to bring up some more stuff this next time. We also had our lesson with Judy on continuing to learn and serve in the church. 

We got the chance to teach our now new investigator named Karen...sort of. We didn't really have an outlined lesson, it was mostly just answering questions she has about the church. Fortunately her questions are out of curiosity and not trying to prove us wrong. It'll be interesting to see how our next lesson goes. 

We've also been trying to meet with more members of the ward that we don't know. Some of the less actives we've met seem pretty open. 

We were able to get a few more potentials that sound interested. One of them we checked into and we gave her a plan of salvation pamphlet. It was a good choice since she just had someone close to her pass away. Another person was someone we had talked with last week named Erika. We ended up talking with her son more and he seemed really interested. Yesterday we went by a born again preacher who we talked with a while ago to see if he knew where someone lived. As he was bearing his testimony to us I felt that I should share a scripture with him and give him a Book of Mormon, which he accepted and said he would read from it. He seems to be pretty spiritually sensitive so we're hoping that the Spirit will speak to him as he reads. Finally we talked with someone who was working on his truck. He was really nice and said that if we ever needed anything that we could come by (he mentioned laundry too, who does that?!?). 

After a few weeks we were finally able to meet with Jeff. They've both been super busy these past few weeks and went on vacation as well. He still seems pretty on track with everything, but we'll probably have to go at a slower pace with Heidi. 

As for what will happen for transfers... I will be staying here with Elder Mills. This is the first time that I've had a companion for more that two transfers. After all the miracles we've seen as well I'm exited to see how it all plays out next transfer! 

Have a great week! 

Elder Jason Riches

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