Week Forty-six:  A Week Full of Lessons and Three New Investigators...Sort Of [June 10,2018]

Hi Everyone! 

This week has been awesome. We've definitely been able to see the Lord's hand in our work! 

Elder Horman, who covers the other side of Atascadero is training a new missionary named Elder Bounous. It's been fun being around them and seeing what I may have looked like when I first got out here. He's doing really well though. 

On Wednesday we got to teach two lessons. The first one was with Judy teaching her about tithing. She's doing really well and paid tithing for the first time a few weeks ago. We also taught Fred the plan of salvation. After that he's officially a new investigator! 

Friday we got to meet the new district. It's crazy to think that I've been in this district since the very end of January. It's completely different from when I first got here. We tried by a few people after that. One guy said that he would have us arrested if we came back again. I'm not sure what he could arrest us on, but we probably won't be going back. After that we went by a potential to set up an appointment with her. Once we did that our area book app made her a new investigator even though it doesn't feel like she is. 

We were finally able to see Heidi this week. We didn't have a long conversation because she is super busy with work and stuff which has made it harder and harder to meet. It was a good conversation though. 

Remember how last week I talked about how we talked to a potential named Erika, but her son was more interested? His name is Jackson and we were able to teach him the restoration and he seems pretty interested. He told us how he could see himself going down this path! He was also a new investigator! 

On Sunday we got blessings from the bishop to help us in our work. That evening we had some cool experiences. We tried by a potential we met last week, but she wasn't home. We decided to go by another potential we met a while ago and we were able to talk with her for a bit. She asked where the church was and talked about coming next week. We also saw another potential we found a week ago and gave him a Restoration pamphlet. As we were walking to the next place we had planned we noticed that the light was on at the one potential we originally planned to go by. We decided to try again and it was a good thing we did. She's the one that we gave the plan of salvation pamphlet to last week. We ended up teaching her the plan of salvation and she really enjoyed it! She would be a new investigator too if we were able to get a return appointment. She did tell us to stop by whenever and she was really happy when we gave her a Book of Mormon!

I'm really happy that I was able to stay here and see all the miracles I have seen this last week! It'll be exciting to see what happens next! 

As always, I hope you have a great week and until next time! 

Elder Jason Riches