Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Weekly Email - 7/21/14

We had another great week! We just found out that Elder Potter is going to be leaving which is pretty sad I liked serving with him he's a great missionary! I'm going to be staying in the area and I will be training a new missionary! Kind of crazy. I can't wait to break him into the mission life! Well here's how our week went.
Monday-We just had a pretty normal P Day and then had FHE up on post.
Tuesday-We had district meeting and then saw Samone and taught him the Plan of Salvation then read the story of Ammon with Rodney because his favorite story is about Samson in the bible and we thought he would like a good hero from the BoM. We saw Candy and her husband John and talked to them about the necessity of the Book of Mormon and Priesthood authority in a church and got them to commit to read and pray about coming to church. We met a couple new potentials and briefly saw Katherine and Dorian to find out why they didn't come to church. Apparently they got busy.
Wednesday-We taught a guy named Michael who we met last week the Restoration. He said he was looking for a church and that he believed everything we shared with him. We couldn't get him to commit to come to church or a baptismal date but we'll keep working with him. We met with another guy named Leslie who was a former investigator. He's not really all there and a heavy smoker but said he's in the process of quitting. We committed him to be baptized Aug 16th. We went over later in the evening to give John a blessing. He's about to have a loop reader put in for his heart and was feeling a little uneasy about it.
Thursday-We went and saw another former named Jessica and started to teach her about the Plan of Salvation. She is really interested but her husband who is a less active member doesn't really like us to come over. But we set an appointment to come back next week and finish teaching it to her! We met with a couple other people, nothing too mentionable. Had a pretty nice discussion with a very nice religious lady named Lyndsie. We saw Gary and had some dinner there. He's doing great and is really excited to learn more in the new member lessons! We saw Sean again and had a really good lesson with him. He read some of the Book of Mormon and was telling us all about what he read and then we watched the Restoration video with him. He's really coming along.
Friday-We went on exchanges today. I went with Elder Hulse. He's a cool guy from Logan, UT. We saw some less active guy named Bill and tried to have a religious discussion with him but he just kept talking about politics... We saw John to see how his surgery went and he's doing great! We finally were able to see Andre again and we read 2 Nephi 31 with him and talked about baptism. He smokes and lives with his girlfriend but he does want to be baptized. Just sometime in the not-so-near future. We had Brother Locklear take us to dinner and then we saw Emmerson and had the usual crazy bash fest and then had one of the weirdest lessons on my mission. We met this kid named Christopher and his dad. They were both stoned out of their mind and the philosophical type. Pretty wild! But they said we could come back to teach them more!
Saturday-We had a Luau at the church and that took up the bulk of our day getting it all set up and everything. We had a lot of people show up! Unfortunately no investigators but that's ok! It definitely built up some fellowship within the branch!
Sunday-We got someone to come to church!! Dave Giddens came! We had been fasting this week to get someone to come. It seemed like no one was going to come and we were about to give up and then Dave walked through the door! It was awesome! He knew a bunch of people from the Branch and said he was going to be coming back next week with his son DJ and going to be staying for all 3 hours! I guess fasting does work! Even if it sucks... Haha!
That's about it for last week! I'm excited to get my brand new companion on Wednesday!
I love you all
Elder Boman

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