This
email will be short because it is yet again transfer week. I wont know
until Wednesday if I'm getting transferred but there is a really good chance.
I will
try to type fast and tell you about the amazing week that elder Weber and I
had.
Monday
right after p-day was over we headed over to the Stanley’s for a great FHE
lesson. They are a part member family
who are like our best friends. We seem
to always be talking with them or playing basketball at the park with their
little kids or pulling weeds or something.
John who is the dad has been chewing like all his life and he is so
close to be ready for baptism. He has been trying to quit for a long time and
hopefully in the next few weeks will be done chewing! This is yet another reminder to me that Satan
is real and is strong but also reminds me the atonement is real and is
stronger! I have watched John and his
attitude about the church change over the past few months. His addiction hasn't just been taken from him
but his desire and attitude towards quitting has been changed and his spirit is
slowly starting to grow as he makes changes in his life.
Tuesday
we seriously tracted all day in the pouring rain. Ha-ha I don’t know if I have ever been that
wet in my whole life. It was a different kind of tracting though because
it was Easter week. Everyone is willing
to talk about Easter and Jesus. My
companion and I were passing out #becausehelives cards to like everyone we saw. We found tons of new investigators and
tripled last week’s numbers. Numbers
only matter if we have a face to go with them and we definitely worked hard for
those faces.
Wednesday
we were in Columbus for zone meeting. We talked about Christ like
attributes and helping our investigators show these attributes in their lives.
Friday my
companion and I were up late packing Easter eggs for a spur of the moment
Easter egg hunt the next day. Some how my comp and I got stuck with all of the
candy and eggs. Ha we didn’t plan it but
we just packed the eggs and were in charge of it. We kind of thought that no one would come and
that we were waisting our time. We were
also a little worried that people were going to focus more on the hunt and less
on Easter and conference, but we were
wrong. I forgot to count how many kids
were there but they were all over the place.
Saturday-
Conference was simply amazing. I felt like the topic of these sessions was
family's. I am yet again so grateful
that I get to go tell people how they can be with there family forever! We had several less active family’s come watch
conference and I was so grateful that they were able to listen to these talks
too. The hunt was a success and we had
more kids show and investigators show up then I knew lived in Greenfield. That night for the priesthood session we
watched\listened to it at the church with Bobby who is blind. It was just us there and it was fun to watch
him feel the spirit and watch his testimony start to burn with in him again! Every time someone said something he made a
comment about it and he seemed to like the whole conference because he was
talking like the whole time. But at least he was listening.
Sunday I
just loved conference! I love the quote by Elder Cook that said "The
church has never been stronger" I
am so grateful that I get to be a missionary and go around and share our unique
message of that Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ is back on earth!
I hope
you all loved conference and Easter as much as I did.
Love Elder
Roper
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