The Lord Does Answer Prayers

December 4,2017

tidbit from a letter home:

This week has been good, says Elder Black says lots of good things are going on here in the sunrise area since I came.

We pray every time we are going to start tracting some place to find someone who’s prepared to talk to us and every time without fail we find at least 1 person.

The lord does answer prayers and I know he is always listening to yours.

I saw a prime example of that the other week with those kids, he knows the feelings and troubles we are having and if we ask for his help He WILL answer.

 

This week has been fairly productive for Elder Black and I, we found 2 new investigators this week.  James, the dirty renter and Bryan the 60 yr. old Lutheran who loves Mormons.

James, the dirty renter got his nickname because we found him tracting the other week and when we found him he was cleaning out one of his rentals that I guess he had to evict the lady out of. She had 18 animals in there.... I can’t remember the number of each animal but she had cats, dogs, and birds! I guess the place had a good 2 inches of crap on the floor and the one room she must have locked the cats in he says cause it’s all torn apart on the walls like something was trying to claw through it. Thus the name James the dirty renter.  Super nice guy! 

We met with him last night for 2 hrs. talking about us and him n the church.  At the end we committed him to read the B of M just the first chapter, and when he saw how not so big the chapter was he said "guys I can do more than that!  You have my interest peaked on this book and I want to read it!" So we said at least read the first chapter, but you can read more if you want! Set up another appointment with him for Thursday this week.

Bryan this guy is super cool to but he’s not really in it to change, he’s more in it to learn about our beliefs.  We knocked on his door and he was super up front and kind of loud.  He said oh it’s you guys!!  Don’t you know this place is black boxed!? You aren’t supposed to come to this place! Black and I both are going oh great another guy that has a restraining order on us.... turns out he was just joking.  He said the missionaries used to come by all the time and meet with him, but one day they just stopped; that was 11 yrs. ago.  But he let us right in and we got his number and set a day to come back and yeah super nice guy! So we went back the next day I believe it was and we were there for a hr. and a half talking. He asked us a lot of questions and we think we did a pretty good job of answering them, and so did he.  He asked us if we thought right now we would go to heaven, and if we did then why we thought that.  We both told him we didn’t know for sure but that it was up to God really with what happened there.  But we sure hoped that we would be!  We said a bit more than that, but that's essentially what we said to him.  He also asked if we had a testimony of this gospel and how strong was it.  SO that led us to sharing our testimonies with him, and he just thought that was the best thing ever, like Christmas had come early for him, he thought they were great.  

The spirit in both our lessons with these guys was pretty amazing, you could feel things changing as we talked about Christ and tell that we weren't all that different from each other.  If there's one thing that everyone in the world has in common, it’s a belief in a higher power and that’s the common ground you can find with anyone.  Once you find that thing you have in common with someone you don’t really know things just open up.  Religion is one of the best ways to have people open up, cause it’s something they love and something that brings us closer to our God, whoever it may be.  

 That’s our week for ya really, well the highlights anyway.  

Haven’t have any snow here on the ground for the past 2 weeks!! As of last night we now have 6 inches or so... 

Hope everyone has a good week.

Love ya all!     

 

 Another bit from the letter he sent me:

Well I’m glad to hear its going good for ya!  It was kind of hard for me to open my mouth when I first started but now it’s just a time we get to share the insights we had on what we read and then as we discuss those things we learn more from each other and our knowledge grows and so does our testimony.