8-16-10

Hey Loved Ones!
Well it's been another week. Man they blend together. I am going to apologize up front i forgot my planner and journal today and the days blend together here so this may not be a very full report, but i am working as hard as i can enduring the pain that i am in. Love you all well here is the week.

We taught Our investigator David the Plan of Salvation it went really well. He is pretty solid. He is very intelligent and knowlegeable on religion. He has a problem with organized religion, but when he knows the BOM is true i am sure we can get over that. He is alot like Matt in a way very smart and into Final Fantasy ha. wish Matt could help me out here. He is Doing good though he is reading the BOM every day and is done with 1 Nephi. We committed him to baptism when he knew that these things were true he said he would certainly consider it. So we are making progress. We are meeting with him again on tuesday. except I will be on an exchange to Goldsboro 2nd ugh. Oh well there i have four lessons. I hope that this weeks lesson goes well though. it kinda scares me that someone besides me will be teaching him. because i was the one who found him. It was late one night 8:45 and Elder Butler was about to turn in, but i said no we have fifteen minutes. Three houses later we knocked on his door this was two weeks ago. we talked to him and he said you don't want to get me started on organized religion. I was like please do. He told me that religious leaders use religion to control and i agreed with him which i think confused him. so he wanted to know more and we have taught him twice and answered his questions about the BOM so its all good. He is doing good and i hope he continues to progress.

Our other investigator is Jimmy Wiggins. He is a good guy. He is Married to a less active in our ward, and two weeks ago he asked us to give him a blessing. so we did and after the blessing we asked if we could teach him and he said yes. we have only had one lesson, but we gave him a BOM and challenged him to Baptism. He said that he was born penecostal and he will die penecostal. (We will see how long that lasts now that the converting power of the Book of Mormon is in his hands MHWAHAHAHAHA) but yeah he said if he knew it to be true he would consider it. we are also meeting with him and his daughter this week.

This week we are going to meet With Jessica. She is one of our potentials that i feel has a lot of potential. She also had a problem with organized religion. We met her our 2nd day here we just rode our bikes past her house and she was outside so we talked to her and told her a bit about what we were doing and she seemed very interesting, but the most impressive part was that she apologized to the entire church for her preconcieved perception she held of the church it was amazing. we haven't met with her since because she went on vacation, but i am optimistic about her future.

Karen is moving so we wont be able to teach her, but pray that she can find the truth she is seeking.

Keep praying for the people that i said and me. No one new this week i will keep you all updated on new investigators and their progress love you. I am praying for you all individually. And please write me. this has been one long letterless week and thats pretty sad. love you. Until next week.
Elder Jones