Cold

Hey everyone!

The weather has gotten super cold but I am surviving barely haha.  I told Hannah, "Cold wind, cold hands, cold hearts." (The week was a little slow.)

We weren’t able to see Lomax this week because she got the flu. We had a super awesome lesson with a lady named Michelle. Michelle has two kids and both have converted to the church. She has grand-kids on missions and she is surrounded by members haha. When we talked to her she said, “well, we can meet but I am going to tell you right now, you aren’t going to convert me.” I love challenges so we will see about that.  In the lesson I told her, “Michelle, this isn’t about conversion, it is about finding truth.” She was like, I am in my seventies so I think it is about time I find truth haha.

Elder Rabago, Elder Goold, Elder Garces, Elder Call

We also met a lady named Kathy this week. Kathy came out right off the bat and told us she was intoxicated. She was very funny and a bunch of her family was yelling at us from the inside of the house.  She was like you know guys I want to change my life around but now isn’t probably the best time... they were partying....

We had a great lesson with the Maynard’s and was able to set the Father with a baptismal date. There is a lot of work to get him ready but hopefully it will happen.

Not much else, lots of love
Elder Call

Many Miracles

Dear Sweethearts,

It was a great week here in Las Vegas. We saw many miracles. Here are a couple stories:

Robert and Barbara:

A couple weeks ago we went and knocked on their door pretty late at night. Robert came to the door and said he was not feeling well and asked us to come back in the afternoon sometime. We kind of took it as somewhat of a brushoff. Elder Goold felt inspired to go and see them on Friday afternoon. We knocked on the door and we heard from inside Barbara say, “yeah I really wanted to go to their church.” Robert came to the door and one of the first things that he asked was, “When is your next mass? I want to come.” We were definitely a little bit shocked haha. Robert is an older man that is fighting Leukemia right now. He has a very weak immune system and has been sick for the last couple of weeks and was not able to make it to church Sunday.  Because of that as we talked to him at the door and he asked if we would like to come over and have a discussion with him over lunch some time. He was quite nervous as he asked that so it’s kind of funny. I guess members and some missionaries helped them move from California and they were touched by that!

Lomax:

Once again a great week for Lomax, she honestly is sooo awesome! She is a sweetheart haha. We taught her not on the street corner this week but we were able to go to our Ward Mission Leader’s house and teach her there. She is getting a ton of pushback from her family which is quite hard on her. We testified and talk of the power of the Book of Mormon and invited her to gain a testimony, for herself, of its truthfulness. As we read and taught the Spirit was very, very strong and my testimony was strengthened.  I do know the Book Mormon is true as Nephi states and I believe the third verse in 1 Nephi as he tells us that he knows it is true.  I know, just as sure as Nephi, that the Book Mormon is true as well. The Book of Mormon definitely does change lives.

A new investigator:

The other night we went to potential investigator who hadn’t been contacted in about six months. We knocked the door twice with no answer as we walked away we heard the door open and so we ran back and met the potential investigator. We started talking to her about her first contact with missionaries and found out they had given her a Book of Mormon.  We asked her if she had read it and she said yes.  We then asked her if she would like to learn more and she said absolutely. And then she asked where the church was.  Once again we were shocked. It was a big miracle.

A different Robert:

We went and knocked on a former investigators door and Robert answered. Robert spent 41 years in Salt Lake City. He doesn’t know too much about the church but he does know little bit obviously. He is super, super nice and let us in right away. We think there’s a lot of potential with him.  He has a daughter and grandkids that live right across the street from him. That would be sweet be able to baptize the whole family. There’s a lot of work between now and then, so we’ll see what we can do haha.

We survived Valentine’s Day with only one group of girls driving by and screaming at us. So you could say it was definitely a success. haha.

It was a solid week here in the snowy weather. Stay cool.

Love,
Elder Call

So, this week we did a challenge to see who could eat an entire Little Ceaser’s Pizza the fastest. haha  You better believe it, I won. I smoked ‘em all.

Great Week

February 5th-12th

2/5 Monday
Today was a pretty normal day. We went shopping and bought 180 dollars’ worth of groceries haha! We will be eating well. We also went to Goodwill Thrift Store and found some diamonds there. They have some of the ugliest ties I have ever seen but the fatter the better! (See picture). We got in with a former investigator tonight and taught him the Plan of Salvation. The spirit was super strong and I know he felt it!  We asked for a return appointment and he declined, which I was just shocked about. It was kind of a bummer.

2/6 Tuesday
Today was a solid day. For District Meeting this morning we worked on asking inspired questions. We all learned a lot and the missionaries loved it. Not too much happened this afternoon, but tonight was really good. Elder Goold was able to place several Book of Mormons and we started an exchange with the Spanish Elders in our district. I will be serving with Elder Delgado tomorrow. He is from Colombia.

2/7 Wednesday
Today was great, I love serving in the Spanish areas. We taught quite a few lessons and in one of them I couldn’t understand the dudes Spanish at all, so I almost fell asleep. haha Seriously, though it was bad. We hit up a little taco stand which was straight fire!

2/8 Thursday
Today, we weekly planned, as usual and tonight we had a lesson with the Maynard family. It was really good, we had the dad, who is a nonmember, say the closing prayer. We asked their little girl how she felt and she said, “If you were allowed to open your eyes during a prayer, you would have seen me smiling!”

2/9 Friday
We had a lesson with Lomax! She is such a sweet heart haha! I love her so much and she honestly is so fun to teach! We taught her the Plan of Salvation and she loved it.

2/10 Saturday
Today, I was on exchanges with Elder Smith. He is super and we saw some serious miracles!  We taught Vernon today and set him with a date for March 17th! We reset the Gotchys for March 10 and we hope to set Lomax for March 3. We taught Lomax again today and she was like, you know I feel like these people that will go to the Celestial Kingdom will get resurrected first! Hahaha no way! It was so funny!  She taught us the first and second resurrection. Lomax was like you know boys, I can honestly say, I love you! She then said she wanted to keep in touch with us after our missions.

2/11 Sunday
Today was great. Lomax came to church and loved it. I thought she was going to shout amen or hallelujah as we were singing “I Know That my Redeemer Lives.”  We had a ‘Be a Friend Sunday’ and we got several super solid leads of people to start teaching! Tonight we got transfer calls and Elder Goold and I will stay together another transfer!!

Exciting stuff!

Love,
Elder Call

Slower Week

So this week was a great week. Elder Goold got in a fight with some concrete. The concrete must of been from Call Ready Mix because the concrete won. Haha, no we were cruising too fast down a road in our area and Elder Goold had to hop off a curb and it ended poorly! He lost a shirt and roughed up a pair of pants.  He is alright and got a little road rash. We had kind of a slower week but we are excited for this upcoming week. It will be good!

Creepy thing in a park in our area

A guy in the ward, (Brother Radmall), came up to me at church and was like "I served with a missionary from Star Valley. I think his last name was Kennington haha!  (This is Uncle Garry Kennington)

 So we got some fresh ties this week!