Week 5 Email: Week 2 of my 1st transfer!

 

It has been such a great week! Started off the week pretty easy with zone conference. Got to see the guys that I went to the mtc with which was pretty great. I thought it was going to be an easy week, but oh was I wrong 😅.  After zone conference me and my companion made a big goal to visit all the Grey dots (people who have not been taught in a while) in 2 weeks. So going into the week it was very busy. One day this week my companion got food poisoning from a meal we had at a members house the previous night 🤢 so we had to stay home for a day. On top of that it was pouring rain all day almost every day which made things that much more difficult🌧. On Friday when most of our visits were unsuccessful me and my companion had a prompting to go do door knocking at the opposite side of the area. About 2 houses in me and my companion knocked on a door and shared a message with someone who was very Christian and had never heard of the church.  At first she asked about the Book of Mormon and if it was our Bible.  Then through the guidance of the spirit I was able to explain what the Book of Mormon was better than I ever thought I could. She was very surprised and she asked for a book and we got a return appointment.  That was super cool and definitely a testimony builder 👌.  Well, thats all for this week!! Thank you all for your love and support!! Talk to you guys next week!!!






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