So we had our transfer calls and
I am staying here in Holt with Elder B, this is his last transfer
here on a mission and we are super excited for whats coming up.
Some
thing cool about last week, yesterday Elder B was looking at our
key indicators for this last transfer and while he was doing that he
thought it was really funny so last week we got loads of garbage, and
he saw we had the highest amount of everything that week than out of the
rest of the weeks. ha ha, I think it's so funny how persecution or bad
things happen right before awesome miracles happen or a miracle will
happen and then you will get hit by garbage. It is SOOOO TRUE!
I have two instances of this this week.
The
first one We came back from Charlotte from district meeting and then we
had a Appointment with the investigator who we put on date last
week. We went in and immediately she asked " my cousin was wondering if
she could be baptized too, would that be alright?" ha ha, um........ Yes
Please! We taught her and her Less active father was in the lesson
too and after the lesson I said now Dad we would like you to be the one
to baptize her. He thought and then he was hit by the spirit like a
semi truck, and he accepted and told us what he was feeling and I told
him that was the spirit .... Really cool experience. =p
We
were leaving super per pumped for our dinner/ teaching appointment that
we had right after and we get there, start the lesson and BOOM! He
threw down on why he is atheist and how there is no way there can be a
God, and slammed the book of Mormon, and there was nothing we could do
to stop it... He went ON....and on.... The thing that stopped it after a
hour straight of hearing stuff he learned from anti material and his
own thoughts, was a testimony Elder B said. And that testimony was
really powerful and I really felt the spirit but I don't know if he did,
really the thing that stopped the rant was Elder B's tears of
testimony, that made him feel bad. We didn't have time to eat dinner
over there because we had another lesson right after it so we left after
that. It really surprised him when we set up a day when we can come
back.
The next persecution story we had is we
set up a return appointment with a lady who wanted us to come back when
he husband got there. Got there a few days later and this 7 foot man
came out and got super ticked until we talked to him a bit. He then
stepped out side and started giving us a interview, he asked about my
criminal record, my education, how tall I am (of course, can't ever
escape that question) and personal questions, until Elder b strung
it into the Gospel and then he was asking about the church and we bore
testimony of several topics and he really like what we were saying, it
was going super good! But then he asked about we know about prophets. He
was asking for it, so we Started talking about my homeboy Joseph
Smith ha ha. Everything was going well until he heard Book of Mormon. Oh
man. He flipped a biscuit! , got all up in my grill, and went off! Bore
testimony. He then tried to escape from us and open the door quickly and
jump in. turns out his kid locked the dead bolt when he went out and he
ran straight into the door. ha ha, he then started pounding on the door
and called for his wife to open the door...
Right
after hearing all of that we went and tried some one we door knocked
into and he pulled a beaten Book of Mormon out of his pocket and told us
that he was reading at work in his free time. Um yes please! We went
in, it was hard to stop him trying trying to teach us every inch of his
knowledge of the gospel, but a half rudely interrupting question
would normally pull him back to topic, turns out he used to be a
investigator and has gone to church a few times, we even had his phone
number in our phone ha ha (but no record). He taught us a lot of things
to use to throw down on Atheists, even though we know that will not help
our situation at all because teaching with worldly knowledge does
nothing at all to convince people.
I had a
dream, after watching Saturdays general conference. My recollection of
it was seeing Robby around 8-11 years old and I pounced on him and gave
him some good healthy beatings. I am pretty sure it was a vision =p.
Some one give Robby a GRAND SLAM! for me and blow in his ear=p. But in
all honesty that was a really weirdly stand out dream I had that was
super real.
I thought General conference was
great! Saturday was my favorite I just kept getting really cool thoughts
and impressions through the whole day. Sunday I didn't have half the
amount of notes. We both thought it was really interesting how there was
so many talks about families and how they really threw down on several
subjects like videogames, and adults getting married quickly and
starting families.
I am super bummed about the McCrockett Cup, I hope the court floods so March madness ends and I win, im gonna pray for it (jk).
Well I gotta go we have inspections happening and we have to get goin.
Bye I love you!
Have a good day!
Don't get shot!
- Elder Truman Rex Crockett
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