Week 24

  Well as the title says, I get to stay here in Little Rock for at least one more transfer with Elder Meyers!!  I'm really glad that I'm staying here because we have a lot of really cool investigators right now, and they are getting closer and closer to baptism!  Elder Heaton is staying in his area as well! 

Parking attendants at Religious Freedom Event

  This week was a super awesome week! it was pretty cold and rainy all week, but we were able to have some great lessons and find some promising new investigators.   Saturday was an awesome  day.In the morning we were able to go to a religious freedom event that was held at our Church.  Earlier in the week we were told that no missionaries could go to it, but the day before the AP's called us and said they needed help for parking, so us and a couple other missionaries could go!  It was a pretty big event, the Catholic Bishop over all the Catholics in Arkansas was there, a Big Muslim leader, as well as some other leaders as well.  The messages given there were really great, the last speaker was Rodney K. Smith I believe he is the President of SVU right now.  His message was really powerful and even though it was mainly about religious freedom, you could still feel the spirit strongly.  It was a great opportunity to familiarize these people just a little bit with our church.  We were grateful that we were able to attend.

 Elder Geddes and Elder Meyers with Priscilla Smith at Religious Freedom Event

With Rodney K. Smith, former President of SVU

   That night we were able to teach Luis.  We were planning on teaching him the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  Then he asked about if we drank Coffee because he heard that in church.  We taught him the Word of Wisdom and it was a super good lesson, filled with the spirit.  He saw the blessings he could receive from the Word of Wisdom and accepted it live it.  We then watched the Restoration movie and talked about baptism.  He told us he was already baptized, but realizes that he needs to be baptized by the proper authority.  He really understands what we are teaching, which is awesome.  We set a baptismal date with him for February.   We are going to continue to prepare him for that date, he is such a nice guy and already has a ton of faith. 

 On Sunday night we drove a little ways to a Reference that we had receive from the Hermanas.  His name was Juan, we knocked on the door and they let us in right away.  It wasn't Juan, but we ended up meeting Gustavo and Aleacys (she had a hard name).  They were super nice, and we able to talk to them for a while and get to know them.  We explained to them what we do as missionaries then we set a return appointment on Wednesday.  He said he was going to cook us Argentinian food!  It's pretty rare that people are here from Argentina, and she was from Colombia which is also rare here.   It was a great example of how the Lord places people into our path even if it's not what or who we were thinking.  Sharing this knowledge that we have as members is one of the greatest things we could do in our lives.  There are so many people who need this gospel, we just need to go out and find them.

   

That's sweet the Mini mission went well, that's a great idea to have the new couples in the ward as Mission Presidents.  It really gets them involved and part of the ward quickly.. I hope you have an awesome week, and the Ducks win tonight!  love you so much!

Love, Elder Geddes

Elder Geddes with Elder Udall
(Relative of Chad and Michelle Lewis)