Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Week 50

Pres. Wakolo and Elder Geddes
  This week was another great, and busy week here in Jonesboro! It's a lot different here in this Zone when we have meetings. When we have a meeting we either have do drive to Searcy about an hour and a half away,or we have to drive to Jacksonville or Little Rock which is more than 2 hours away. We had a zone meeting in Searcy that went really well on Wednesday. Then on Friday we had a day called "DOT" Defenders of Truth Day. We were supposed to have it last week on the 4th but it got rained out. It was Elders only because the Sisters did something similar to it last year. We had a big Luau where President Wakolo cooked a bunch of food in a pit. As well we were able to play a bunch of little games, and do
challenges in the Gym and outside. It was a lot of fun to be able to get together with all the Elders on this side of the mission, and enjoy part of the day together! It was really cool that President Wakolo did all of that for us! He was also wearing a Spanish name tag which I thought was sweet! It was the first time I had ever seen President Wakolo without a suit on.

Luau Feast 
  The missionary works was another solid week as well. We were able to visit one of our main investigators David several times this week with members. We had a couple of really great lessons and especially the lesson on Saturday. We have been really focusing on getting him to church, because we know how much it will help him progress and receive an answer about Baptism. In the lesson he really opened up to us about his fears of going to church, and howhe felt a little inadequate about going. We were able to help him out with those concerns, and he told us how he felt a lot better. He asked us what kind of clothes he should wear, and committed on coming to church that next day! We had a ride all set up for him and it wasgood to go. On Sunday morning he then gave us a call, and told us he had gotten all ready  for church, but then was having lot of pain and had to go to the emergency room. It's amazinghow hard the devil will work from keeping someone from doing good things and progressing! After church we were able to go visit him in the hospital and give him a blessing. Sure enough he was in his Church pants, and his white shirt was sitting next to him on the chair. We know he will be blessed for his intent and, are hoping that his health will allow him to
go to church next week! It was a good lesson for me on the importance of asking inspired
questions. Because of that David really opened up to us, and we were able to help him with his real concerns that he had. 
   As well this week we have been visiting a lesser active lady, and her daughter who had just recently moved into the ward. They are super awesome, but she has a few doubts. We challenged her to start reading and praying about the Book of Mormon. She had been reading it the next time we came back which was super cool. She and her daughter were able to make it to church on Sunday! We are going to keep working with them, and try to get the ward moreinvolved in visiting her, and making her feel welcome into the Ward. Other than that we are teaching some really cool Hispanic families as well, and have been doing a lot of service which makes the week really busy. All is well over here in Jonesboro, and I'm really grateful for this opportunity that I have to serve here. I know President Wakolo was inspired to send me here, and I'm already seeing those reasons after just a few weeks. I'm so grateful to be part of a church that is led by revelation. And even more grateful to be able to share that knowledge with all those around me. I hope that you have another great week, and if you want some mosquitoes I wouldn't mind sending a couple thousand of them over there because we got plenty! Thanks for everything, love you!

 Love, Elder Geddes

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