Hello from Kentucky!
This week was a great one. BIG stress reliever and lots of answers to
many prayers. Let's see, where to start...
Well first off, our mission tour with Elder Zwick was cancelled:(
Elder Zwick has to be in Salt Lake for something, I'm guessing it's
because of the passing of Elder Perry, he was very close to him. But
it's ok, we were able to see him quite a bit in the past 2 weeks!
Alvin Davis is set to be baptized this Saturday! I can tell he has a
lot more desire and drive to join the church. Little background on him
if you didn't already know. His Fiancé is a member and she and her
family are from Corbin, that the last ward I was in! And I knew her
and Alvin before I came here! So, the baptism is going to be in Corbin
and we'll be able to go there for the baptism on Saturday night, spend
the night with the Elders there and then go to church and I will be
confirming him a member! It's going to be great. Y'all would love
Alvin, he is such a funny guy. Super awesome. He played on the UK
football team when he was in college. He's a big guy! I'll send a pic.
This week was a great one. BIG stress reliever and lots of answers to
many prayers. Let's see, where to start...
Well first off, our mission tour with Elder Zwick was cancelled:(
Elder Zwick has to be in Salt Lake for something, I'm guessing it's
because of the passing of Elder Perry, he was very close to him. But
it's ok, we were able to see him quite a bit in the past 2 weeks!
Alvin Davis is set to be baptized this Saturday! I can tell he has a
lot more desire and drive to join the church. Little background on him
if you didn't already know. His Fiancé is a member and she and her
family are from Corbin, that the last ward I was in! And I knew her
and Alvin before I came here! So, the baptism is going to be in Corbin
and we'll be able to go there for the baptism on Saturday night, spend
the night with the Elders there and then go to church and I will be
confirming him a member! It's going to be great. Y'all would love
Alvin, he is such a funny guy. Super awesome. He played on the UK
football team when he was in college. He's a big guy! I'll send a pic.
We have a new investigator named J____ S_____. The Georgetown Elders
have been teaching her for a month or so and they handed her over to
us because she wants to come to the YSA here in Lexington. Georgetown
is only like a 20 min drive. So, she is super solid and she is getting
baptized the next Saturday on the 20th!
We have an investigator named R_____ N_____, he is from Nigeria.
Missionaries have been working with him for about a year. Soon after I
got here we dropped him because he would not keep commitments. But, we
picked him back up about a month ago and he's been coming to church
and keeping commitments. We invited him to pray about being baptized
on the 27th of this month and he said he would. He came to church
yesterday and after gospel doctrine was over he turned to us and
started asking us what time his baptism would be at and we asked him
if he had prayed about the date and he said he did and we asked how he
felt and he said he felt good! So, he's gonna get baptized on the
27th! What a blessing and miracle. We could never get him committed to
a date before.
At church there was a non-member girl named Layne who has been to
church a couple times in the other ward and she wanted to come to the
YSA and she is SO solid. Some other missionaries have taught her once
but since she is college age and is going to come to the YSA she will
be taught by us.
Here's a funny story for ya. So the other night we were at Alvin's
place for a lesson and then we helped him do some service for his
neighbor and after we were done he wanted to take us to dinner down in
the Hood of Lexington haha so, here we are with this big black guy
driving in the ghetto of Lexington and we went to this place called
Krispy Krunchy Chicken. It was so good haha straight up soul food.
Everything was deep fried. We bought so much fried chicken and honey
butter biscuits. Wish y'all could have been there. It was quite the
experience. And yesterday after church we went to his house and him
and tori made us dinner. We had grilled salmon, potatoes, corn,
watermelon, pineapple and fruit punch. Such a great dinner. Praise the
Lord, he is so good to us.
Whew! Lots of typing with my 2 thumbs on my iPad! Going to play ball
with Alvin today at the church. He's going to do some drills with us.
I am now down to 195 lbs haha!
One big thing I learned this week in my studies. The Book of Mormon
Reminds us of things we constantly forget. We as humans are very quick
to forget things. The word remember or remembering is found in the
Book of Mormon approximately 158 times. Obviously it's here to REMIND
us of what we already know. And the word "forget" and the phrase "not
remember" is found approximately 25 times. This is why we must
constantly read from its pages or else we will become and the Nephite
and Lamanites and "forget the Lord [our] God."
have been teaching her for a month or so and they handed her over to
us because she wants to come to the YSA here in Lexington. Georgetown
is only like a 20 min drive. So, she is super solid and she is getting
baptized the next Saturday on the 20th!
We have an investigator named R_____ N_____, he is from Nigeria.
Missionaries have been working with him for about a year. Soon after I
got here we dropped him because he would not keep commitments. But, we
picked him back up about a month ago and he's been coming to church
and keeping commitments. We invited him to pray about being baptized
on the 27th of this month and he said he would. He came to church
yesterday and after gospel doctrine was over he turned to us and
started asking us what time his baptism would be at and we asked him
if he had prayed about the date and he said he did and we asked how he
felt and he said he felt good! So, he's gonna get baptized on the
27th! What a blessing and miracle. We could never get him committed to
a date before.
At church there was a non-member girl named Layne who has been to
church a couple times in the other ward and she wanted to come to the
YSA and she is SO solid. Some other missionaries have taught her once
but since she is college age and is going to come to the YSA she will
be taught by us.
Here's a funny story for ya. So the other night we were at Alvin's
place for a lesson and then we helped him do some service for his
neighbor and after we were done he wanted to take us to dinner down in
the Hood of Lexington haha so, here we are with this big black guy
driving in the ghetto of Lexington and we went to this place called
Krispy Krunchy Chicken. It was so good haha straight up soul food.
Everything was deep fried. We bought so much fried chicken and honey
butter biscuits. Wish y'all could have been there. It was quite the
experience. And yesterday after church we went to his house and him
and tori made us dinner. We had grilled salmon, potatoes, corn,
watermelon, pineapple and fruit punch. Such a great dinner. Praise the
Lord, he is so good to us.
Whew! Lots of typing with my 2 thumbs on my iPad! Going to play ball
with Alvin today at the church. He's going to do some drills with us.
I am now down to 195 lbs haha!
One big thing I learned this week in my studies. The Book of Mormon
Reminds us of things we constantly forget. We as humans are very quick
to forget things. The word remember or remembering is found in the
Book of Mormon approximately 158 times. Obviously it's here to REMIND
us of what we already know. And the word "forget" and the phrase "not
remember" is found approximately 25 times. This is why we must
constantly read from its pages or else we will become and the Nephite
and Lamanites and "forget the Lord [our] God."
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| We are trying to become as big as hulk in our gym haha |
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| The UK library, where we teach a lot of our lessons. |
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| A giant rug thing on the wall in the library. |
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