Week 91 - April 30, 2018 - Raven, Virginia

Hey y'all! It's your boi. Okay first off, this week was absolutely incredible! We had some discouraging moments but we also had awesome moments that made up for those discouraging ones! We had to give Kenyan to the Welch elders to teach because she BARELY lives outside of our area. Like not even a mile out of our area. She will be baptized soon. It low key blew, but to make up for that, we found 8 new investigators and put 3 of them on date for baptism! It's been a pretty good week. The work is finally progressing in this area. I also heard the name "Donkey Kong" a lot this week for some reason. That name is haunting me haha.

UPDATE ON INVESTIGATORS:

Robert & Kaitlyn. So they're a couple that we found a couple weeks ago but not much was happening with them until this week! We talked to them for a while and they have been struggling. We taught a portion of the restoration again and it finally clicked with them. They've been doing a lot of research on us (on mormon.org thank goodness haha) and they said that we make sense. So pray that they'll progress soon! We're going on a hike with them today so we're pretty hyped to chill with them haha!

Roger, Sandra, & Jay. They're a family we picked up this week. They have a lot of family problems but they loved the message we shared about the restoration and they were the ones we set on date for baptism on June 16th! They said they want to find everlasting happiness. So pray that they progress too :)

CHALLENGE OF THE WEEK:

Who haven't you reached out to in a while? Call (not text) that person and set up a time to see them this week if at all possible. And just catch up with them! 

FUNNY MOMENT:

So yesterday we were at a member's house for dinner and she was talking about her mission. She told us a story of how there was an elder in her mission that only cared about numbers. He was her zone leader. He apparently called an emergency zone meeting and called them all out for not getting "enough numbers". The member telling us this story (who is the nicest lady ever) FREAKED OUT at him after the meeting. She then proceeded to tell us, "Elders, if you ever become like that elder, I'm gonna kill you." Hahahaha it was so funny! 

Love you all! Thank you for everything and hope y'all have a great week :) keep on keepin' on!

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