Week 61

  Another week has already flown by, and we are approaching General Conference once again.   It felt like 2 months ago that we had the last one.   We were sad to hear the passing of another Apostle with Richard G. Scott.  We as missionaries are so out of the loop that we didn't hear about his passing until 3 days after.  We were at a a dinner about to share a spiritual thought, and she said something about Scott dying. We were really surprised.  But the cool part was I had already pulled a video up to share and it was by Richard G. Scott!

   Well this week really was another really awesome week!  We have met once again some promising people, and we are pumped to go see them this week!  Earlier on in this week we were doing some finding around Tina's house, and we felt that we needed to go down a certain street.  There was a house that we went up to, and we saw them in their front living room.  We heard them talking, and as we knocked they told us to come right in.  They were relieved to find out we were Mormon's, and not from another faith ha ha!  But there names are Reg. y Car..  Reg. was telling us some things that had been happening in her life, and how she has been looking to be nurtured by the word of God.  Car.is an Elderly lady that lives across the street but is always visiting.  She was hilarious the whole time. She was raving about how great of people we were, and how we were sent to them at that time to help them.  We were able to get to know them y set up a return appointment.  On the return appointment we brought a member with us, Sister B!  The car wasn't there, but Carol was waiting there for us. Re. told her to wait because she didn't want us to miss her while she dropped her baby off.  Then Re. came back y we taught both of them the Restoration.  When we started they asked if we brought the Book of Mormon's as promised, because we were out last time.   It was a good lesson, although everyone was trying to tell their story, but we got through it.  They were super excited to get to read the Book of Mormon and learn more.  Car. the whole time just kept on saying how great we were even though we were the first missionaries she had actually talked with.    We were able to set up a return appointment.  On the day of the return appointment Carol called us all worried how she felt so bad she wasn't going to be a the appointment, because it was her Birthday. She didn't want us to think we were hiding from her, and she said she was reading in the Book of Mormon.  She is so funny, and it's so great!  She wants to come to church this week!  It was a great experience of how the Lord will continually guide us to people who are waiting for us.  

  Another story from the week was with the Ja. y Ni. family.  We were able to see them a couple times this week which was awesome.  We had an appointment with them on Saturday. and that morning we called and got it confirmed.  That night we invited a member to join us.  As the member pulled up to this appointment I looked at the phone trying to pull up this text that had come in a few hours later, but earlier it wouldn't let me open it saying "no information." and it had somehow gotten moved to the bottom of all the texts.   I tried to open it up again as we were in front of their house, and this time it pulled up and it was Ja. who had text a couple hours earlier saying he had to cance,l but he would be at church in the morning.  We were already at the house with the Member so we decided to go anyways.  They were out back doing some things, and we talked for a while y explained the text thing.  They said we could come in anyways.  We had planned to teach the 10 commandments y were really praying to know if we should teach the Word of Wisdom that night. because they still hadn't gone to church.  We were able to teach lesson, and had just an awesome lesson with him. We were going to start teaching the Word of Wisdom, and  he kind of mentioned it himself how he wanted to improve a few things!  It was an amazing experience of how the Lord allowed us to teach him that night, because it was no doubt something he needed.  He said they were coming to church no matter what, even if the house burnt down.  Well long story short he text "on my way" on Sunday morning, and then right after that they  got called to pick up Nikki's kid unexpectedly and weren't able to come.  We saw them that night and Jason was a little sad he couldn't make it, He said I had my tie on an everything ha ha!  He did tell us that on that day he had called some of his LDS friends that he had when he lived in Memphis.  He told them he was getting baptized!! He said they are going to try and make it out to the baptism.   Ja. y Ni.i are both so awesome and we scheduled his baptism for the 11th!  We are just super excited for that, and he has such a strong testimony already.  He has seen many blessing in his life already with listening to the gospel, I just can't wait to see the blessings rain upon them as they are baptized and fully live the gospel.

  Another cool thing that happened that yesterday at church was that Cla. came again as well as Bri. an American friend of theirs y her husband Jai.  We had met them once or twice at Cla., but we never have taught him, because we are always speaking Spanish there.  She told us at church she wanted to start coming every week, so her kid can grow up in it.  After church I asked if they had any other questions, and she turned to her husband and said "can we come back next week".  That was sweet, y I gave them the Restoration pamphlets, and was able to set up an appointment to go to their house for the first time.  That was a tender mercy for sure on Sunday!  

  Really it was just a great week here in Jonesboro! General Conference this week is going to be amazing! Such a strength to our lives to be able to listen the words of living Prophets called of God.  We also have a lot of investigators that are looking forward to watching it.   I'm just loving it here, and the members and people here are all so awesome!  Have another great week, love you tons!

Love, 

Elder Geddes