Less Active Support Squad

Remember the referral dinner thing? We had the dinner and it was really great. I had to ask myself several times if I was at a members house. Her friend was there and so was our good friend JR, and miraculously our member knew Mary. The following day she called us and said she made us cookies! We went over and got them at her house as quick as we legally could. When we arrived she gave us cookies and asked a question. "When is your day off?" we told her Mondays and she said that she wanted to take us to Silver Dollar City, which is the South West Missouri equivalent of Disneyland. She had two extra tickets and she told us her granddaughter made her promise that she would give us food and take care of us. We told her we would get back to her on that. We are crossing our fingers that we get that approved, but we are pretty sure we know the answer.

      We had a surprise visit at MLC this week from a man from Salt Lake. He was a member of the missionary department and gave us some great tips on teaching, finding and planning. We have applied it and we have seen some great things happening. He was like Obi Missionary Work Kenobi. 

      We knocked on the door of an investigator's house and no one was home. We walked away and heard the garage door open up behind us. A shirtless man (less active man) stumbled out with our investigator, both with baby in hand and one with cigarette in mouth, the adult no the baby. The shirted boy told us he was going to the Walmarts and the shirtless man told us that we didn't want to hear what he had to say. But he had a lot to say. After a couple stories he shared about breaking the law, he asked if we could give him one of our books. We downloaded the Book of Mormon on his phone and moments later a group of Baptists from a youth group came to try and give him an invitation to an Easter Service. After asking if we ever got in religious fist fights with opposing sects of doctrine he told the baptist kids that we were cooler because we have an app and it was "sick". So you heard it hear first folks.

     The Atonement has helped me this week as I have tried to overcome my faults. In this great search for our Savior we can become more like Him as we search for Him and it is hard but totally worth it. If we come to Him, He can make us so much better than we are now.

Adios

Elder Thomas