Hello Everyone,
This week has been awesome! It was defenently one to remember. Monday, Elders had a Turkey bowl at the Washington mall. It was really fun! The team I
ended up on was one of the best teams so we got to play for a long time. Along
with playing football I got to see my trainer, Jimmy Loveless! He was visiting
the mission and he stopped in and played some football! It was really good to
see him...later that night we had a dinner appointment with a member and he
took us to Cafe Rio! It was really good as always.
Tuesday we had our weekly meetings as always. We spent pretty much the
rest of the day contacting people at the local metro stop. We met some pretty
awesome people. One of them his name is D. He is from the South East. He was
wearing a pretty beat up jacket with all the NBA team's logos on it. I asked
him about it and he told me that bought it off a drunk guy. Anyway he seemed to
like the message we shared so we got his contact information and sent it down
to the elders in SE DC.
Wednesday we went tracting. We actually taught a few lessons! One of
them was a Catholic Deacon. He is a really cool guy, he let us in and we had a
great discussion. At the end of the lesson he told us that he let us into his
home because he felt the Holy Ghost prompt him. We are hoping to get in contact
with him this week so we can meet up with him again.
Thursday was Tthanksgiving! We started playing football with the ward.
Then we got cleaned up and headed to member's home who invited us over. He were
pretty much with this member and the family all day. It was a lot of fun, the food
was really good and the people were awesome! After we had finished up with them
he headed to another dinner with the Lacsamana's, who live up the street in the
Gaithersburg Ward! It was great being able to see them.
Friday we once again spent our day finding. We started off with
tracting. We were having very little success. We finally knocked into a
Hispanic lady who was willing to talk a little bit. It started off by her just
talking about the bible and how she loves it so much. We were able to say a few
things here and there, but she was doing the majority of the talking. Finally
after probably 20 minuets she lets us in and let's us do some of the talking.
After about 5 minutes we realize that her comprehension of English is not very
high so we decided to play the short version of the restoration video in
Spanish. During that video the spirit was so strong. She loved the video and it
answered some questions that she had about our church. Apparently a few years
ago she talked to some sister missionaries. At the end of there lesson one of
the missionaries prayed in the name of Joseph Smith (oh bless her soul) so that
turned her off from our church ever since. We were able to explain to her that
we don't pray In the name of Joseph Smith. She is really cool! We
passed her off to the Spanish missionaries, so hopefully she will be able to
progress in the gospel.
Saturday we went tracting... Yay!🎉 we spent a lot of time finding this week. We did not see to much
success except for a lady that Elder Bentley contacted. She said she would go
to church, so that's pretty cool.
Sunday was great! We had a random family show up. They were a part
member family who wants to join an English Ward (they were attending the French
branch) the only member was the mother. The father and two daughters were non
members. After church the Dad comes up to us and asks us how they can become a
member 😎 (best question ever!) we are going to set up an appointment with him this week
and hopefully put him on date! The rest of Sunday was non stop running. We
headed strait to our lunch appointment, after that we went contacting for a
while then we had dinner and then we went on exchanges with one of the members
of the Ward to help him out with his home teaching! It was an excellent day!
Thanks for all the support! I hope you all had an awesome Thanksgiving! Have an awesome week!
🇺🇸ElderJohnson🇺🇸
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