A good week

A lot of good things happened this week. 

 Transfers were Wednesday. My new companion is Elder McMullan. He is a funny guy.  He is from Maryland and will be going home pretty soon. He is really good at getting referrals from people because he asks everyone. We got like 10 referrals since he's been here.

On Wednesday we tracted accidentally into a less active family named the Sliningers whose grandmother passed away a few days earlier.  We took the sacrament to Sister Slininger every week. It was really good timing that we tracted into them. Brother Slininger has been inactive for quite some time now. He is divorced and living with his 7 year old daughter and his brothers and sisters. He also has a non member friend named Lisa living there who is willing to take the lessons now, though she says she is Catholic and never changing. They are all coming to church this next week though.

Jose is doing so good. It's looking like he is going to be baptized at the end of the month at this rate. He loves reading the scriptures. He is solid. 

Mike F still isn't coming to church. He wants to but he has to ask his parents but his parents aren't supportive. They won't even let us meet inside his house ever. We tried buying a pizza for the family to see if they'd let us in. Didn't work. Good pizza though. Don't know what we will do about him.

Mike Y came to church! He asked us if we could come back later and have a testimony meeting with him. He shared us his whole life story and told us everything. We'll see what happens with him. 

We had 3 people come to church yesterday! One of them was unexpected. Our investigator named Beau who I was talking about last week came to church! On tuesday he was so desperate and so I bought some pretty nice boots from him for 40 dollars since I need them. I may have given him 10 more dollars which I'm not supposed to do that. It's hard to follow that rule when people are desparate. Like do I just turn them away? But anyways, Fransisco let Beau stay over at his place for a day and took him to church. He enjoyed church he said.  He is going to meet with us Thursday. I've been praying for that guy a lot. Unfortunately, he moved back in with his girlfriend yesterday and still is jobless. We will see how things go.

So that's pretty much what happened this week.

I'm ponderizing this week James 3:17-18

 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

have a happy week!

Elder Soutas