Friday, February 17, 2012

I saw my first roadrunner!

Hey gang,
Well just as an update, the man who called us last Monday called us again this week and set up 3 appointments with us. We taught him once and he seems very interested and committed to read from the Book of Mormon and pray. He's already been to church several times and came yesterday as well. It's amazing. And along similar lines, a lady and her son came to our English ward yesterday with their member friend and wants to learn from the missionaries. We were at the Spanish ward during the first two hours of English services, but our ward mission leader met the lady and her son and grabbed another set of elders that were at the building and taught her the message of the Restoration. They even set up another appointment (for us). Can presents from the Lord come any more nicely wrapped? The work is moving along with haste in both of our wards. Members are handing us referrals weekly it seems. I don't really understand what qualifies us to have so many rich blessings but we're trying to show our gratitude and lead His sheep to Christ.
In conversation with a member I mentioned that I have a friend serving in Spokane WA Spanish-speaking. Afterward my companion said, "I have a friend in Spokane, Spanish-speaking. He's from Georgia." Turns out that Dominic Clarke was in my companion's district in the MTC. Crazy, huh?
Que mas...Another milagro (miracle). We set the goal of three new investigators for this past week and prayed and worked to get them. Well Wednesday night one of our already investigators called to cancel a lesson because he needed to go see the doctor for chest pain. So with the open time we then had, we visited a referral from Christmas that we've already been by several times and never had a lesson go through. But we knocked on the door and they just welcomed us in. Without having set an appointment, we had a great lesson with them and walked out having 3 new investigators - a family! The father didn't actually speak up much during our time there, which made us reflect on how the Lord had prepared us and the father. We had stopped by several times previously, and even though we didn't have a lesson, we were able to chat with him on those occasions about things going on in his life and just build a friendship. It was how the Lord wanted it to be, so that when they did let us in their home to teach, we could already have a friendship to build on despite his silence in the lesson.
Well it was a pretty rewarding week. But don't think that it wasn't without it's challenges. Those just aren't as exciting to share :)
I love you all,
Elder Joshua Gathro

PS- Was there a presidential debate in Jacksonville this week?

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