Happenings from Elder Geddes

Week 27

Well this week started out pretty interesting with a call from Sister Bowling (from the mission office) and she said "Elder Geddes your mom just called, and I have some really bad news" So I was thinking did someone die, or something like that? Then she told me about someone using my debit card. So I was relieved in that sense! I called Wells Fargo and figured it all out I think. Hopefully itt will all work out! Crazy how that happened because before that $1 purchase at Taco Bell I hadn't used that card since the 5th of December. Anyways thank you for noticing that and helping me out!

This week was another super awesome missionary work here in Little Rock. It was our Bike week, but we really lucked out with almost perfect weather all week. No rain, and it was pretty warm the whole week! We had a couple great lessons with Monica and her family again this week. Both times members were able to come with us, and they loved the lessons and are still continuing reading in the book of Mormon as a family! It's so cool to see how happy they are and their progression in the gospel. Monica even asked us to get an English Book of Mormon so her daughter Jubitsi would be able to understand it better, and have no excuse for not reading with them! haha.! They basically already seem like members of the branch! On Sunday the whole family was able to come to church again (Monica, Cassandra,, Jubitsi) and they brought a cousin again as well! They really enjoyed church, and the spirit was really strong during the fast and testimony meeting. Come to find out Cassandra works with a member from the Branch at a beauty salon, so even more fellowshipping! The baptism for Saturday night looks really good, and they are getting really excited. It has been so great teaching them, because they ask a lot of questions which help them understand it even easier. We are super excited for the Baptism on Saturday, and we are going to working with them a lot this week preparing them for it! Tonight we have the FHE with them in the Mission home with the Wakolo family. That should go really well, even though President can't speak Spanish the spirit will be super strong there. And that's the update on the Ramos family!

Other than that we were able to meet some really cool people, and get back in contact with some great people that we haven't seen for a while. We were able to see and investigator Joanna who just had a family member die, but we have just been able to talk with her and offer our help. The second time we went back it was after the funeral and she was super tired, but still talked to us outside for a while. She was saying that her sister was telling her Pastor that he didn't offer any help, but the Mormon Missionaries did it was kind of funny! So it was a good way to gain trust and confidence with Joanna, and we are going to try and start teaching her now that everything has kind of calmed down. We taught a the restoration to a man named Raul and the spirit touched him strongly during the lesson. You could tell he knew it was true. He wanted to come to church but it rained, and most people don't come to church when it rains. But we are going to go back and teach him more, we're looking forward to that. And we were also to get back in contact with Aracelys and Gustavo in that same trailer park, they were super awesome again and want to come to the baptism as always!

Overall an awesome week, and the Branch is on the uprise little by little. The members are starting to get involved, which makes things work so much better. We have a lot of potential investigators so hopefully we can get a lot of them to start progressing!

Well that's about all for the week, sorry if the email was disorganized, but it's fine! Thank you tons for the email. Love you!

Love,

Elder Geddes