Week 47

  

  I agree that it was a really great day being Father's Day yesterday!  How blessed I have been to have such a a great father and the example he has given me.  Even though I wasn't there to celebrate it with him we had a really good Father's Day here in the branch.  I'm grateful for all the great fathers and those who are worthy Priesthood holders.  The Priesthood brings so many blessings to the home of a family.  It's such great duty from God that were are given the opportinidad to fulfill.
   As for my week it was another great week here in the great city of Memphis as it normally is!  At the beginning of the week we were able to have a really good Noche de Hogar with la familia P.  The whole family was there and we were all able to sing hymns and have a really good lesson. It went really well, and the spirit was definitely invited into there home.  They are such a solid family we just need to get the Dad to regain his original desire to learn and change when he first met the missionaries.  We have another Noche de Hogar planned with them this weekly y the mom agreed to give the lesson, that will be really cool!  

 Throughout the week we were able to teach Enri y Anga few times as well.  She we asked them about how they liked church they really loved it.  Ang said "normally I get really tired in church but I felt something different at church and really enjoyed it". And then Enri told us " He thought the first time going to church was great and that it wouldn't be their last time going."  And sure enough on Sunday the whole family was able to come to church again which was awesome!  They were able to stay for all three hours, and the lessons and talks in church were all great.  Juan Rodriguez (the east Elders recent convert) taught the gospel principles lesson for the very first time and did and awesome job.  He was only baptized like a month ago.  After church as a branch we all had food after, and had some great Pasole and other great Hispanic food.  Enri y Ang were able to stay for that as well.  They seem to be comfortable in the branch and have been welcomed really well.  The kids also love gong to to their classes in Primary.  That was a great experience that they were able to come to church again!  

    Another kind of crazy thing that happened this year week was when we went to see our investigator Jose.  We knocked on his door and he opened it up but it didn't really look like him.  The he told us that he had been assaulted and that they had completely broken his jaw.  His mouth was tied shut and his cheeks were super swollen.  Poor guy he looked like he was in a lot of pain.  We were able to give him a blessing that day.  Then later on in the week we went back to see him and he looked a lot better with less swelling.  He still was in a lot of pain, and couldn't talk too well just because his mouth is tied shut.  But he told us he had been reading in The Book of Mormon, because he has a lot of free time.  We taught him the word of wisdom and it went really well. He only has problems with one thing, but with his situation right now he has to obey it!  Haha! This could really be a blessing in disguise and has given him the chance to read more, and see the blessings from living the commandments. Even though we go through hard things in our lives, those things can lead us to some of our happiest times in our lives.  We are going to continue working with him, and hopefully he can continue progressing!  

  On Thursday Yader and his family came over to Memphis again, and we were able to go walk around the temple with them,!  It was a great experience and it is always so great seeing them. They are such an awesome family! . Other than that we taught some other really cool people this week with potential to progress. We had a good lesson win a black lady y an Hispanic and she asked us about all the rumors she had ever heard about the church.  Those are always the best lessons, it actually did go really well.  And last night we taught these big long lesson with some drunk guys.  One understood really well but we couldn't get his address.  One guy kept saying the whole time "The Evangelicos told me the Mormons were the most mistaken, so you are the most mistaken" Hahaha!I it would be so much nicer if people would just go to the real source for information, and then ask God for and answer!  But what do you do!  It was a great week overall!  

    Yup you're right, crazy enough transfers are in a week from Wednesday.  I am most likely staying in this area, but you never know with Transfers!  Anyways thanks so much for the email, it sounds like you had a pretty good week!  Love you tons and have another great week!

Love, Elder Geddes