Hello everyone this has been a awesome week! Lots of cool things have happened and we had a baptism, so all in all it was awesome!
Tuesday: Well I'm gonna start going into less detail on some things cause I keep on running out of time! But on Tuesday we saw Jeremey and went over the baptismal question with him and it was great. Then we went and saw some other big ugly people ( big ugly is a place) and went to the church around 5 and played with the kids and their friends they brought. Then we taught a lesson and it went super awesome. They love coming and as they tell more kids about it they are wanting to come too! Later that night we saw Eric and Kim and we taught the gospel of Jesus Christ. We were able to bring up some concerns they had and address them so it was a really solid lesson.
Wednesday; I WOKE UP FEELING SUPER SICK but we still went out and did what we had planned and it all went well. It was a lot of seeing less actives and tracting cause appointments fell through. Then we had mutal and everyone made these peanut butter eggs they are selling so they can go on their trip this summer. It was fun.
Thursday: Still woke up sick this morning but I kept on moving. Today was absolutely amazing and completely mission changing. like mind blowing. Me and Elder Kamauu got a call from president, like on Monday I think, and he asked us to come to this special meeting in the mission office where a church official was gonna come to talk to us. So we had no idea what to excpect or why we were going, but we went and there were like 20 other missionaries there and they were all zone leaders and stuff so we had no clue why we were there. And the man that was there to speak to us was sent by Elder Bednar to present to us a new way of teaching. And after they showed us we all just couldn't stop smiling. It was so simple and so awesome and it only lasts like 10 minutes instead of like 30 to 40 min. And it makes the spirit the teacher and has the investigator get engaged and do the talking, we just guide them through the process. I would try to explain it but it would be impossible! just know my mission has just done a 180 for the better!
Friday: Ya I'm still sick today. Today we had zone meeting and they basically just covered what I learned the day before in the special meeting except not nearly as well! I wish everyone had been able to go to that meeting cause it was just so awesome. So Kim had her baby today! We went and saw her and she is soooo cute and I wanted to hold her so bad but alas I'm a missionary and can't... maybe in 2 years I'll come back haha. We went and saw Jeremy again and went over the questions again and helped him with whatever he needed. We are so excited for him to be baptized this Sunday! Then we went to the Haneys and last night we literally practiced what we learned on Thursday for like 2 hours, just role playing it over and over. And when we got to the Haneys, last week we had taught them the plan of salvation in a 40 min super detailed using tons of scrips and proving everything way, and as we were talking to them we realized they got nothing out of it. So we taught it again using the new way we had learned and we couldn't stop looking at each other in like shock at the difference. They were engaged and understood and had truths testified to them that we didn't even bring up. It was incredible! I realize now why. Before we were teaching to prove our knowledge. We were throwing out all the doctrine and really being just prideful and not letting the spirit teach. With this new way we hardly talk and the spirit takes over and it is absolutely incredible! I am so happy we got to go to that meeting!
Saturday: Still feeling sick and have thrown up last night but I'm not contagious so we went out. We started off with breakfast at Momma Janes and it was as always delicious! We went after and picked up the district leader and took him to Jeremeys and he interviewed him for his baptism tomorrow and he is good to go! We are so excited for him! We went over to the Haneys next and taught the restoration again using the new way and it brought up a big concern of theirs, and that is the book of Mormon. We were able to testify of it and commit them to read it by just saying to ask god, and bearing our testimonies. We didn't try to convince them with facts and all that, we just relied on the spirit as we have been shown to do and once again it made all the difference.
Sunday: I was feeling awful this morning but we had a baptism so there was no way I was letting it get me down. The baptism was really cool. I had the opportunity to do it and as he came up he just kept saying wow! haha. And as we were changing he said he was a brand new him. He could feel the change and it was such a cool experience. After church we went out tracting and had a really cool experience. We had planned to tract in this holler called Mitchel heights but as we were approaching it I felt like we should keep going and so we did and we drove like 8 miles and we both felt we should turn into this random holler, so we did and started driving up it and like 2 miles in we felt we needed to turn around. So we listened to the spirit and turned around and got all the way to the beginning of the holler again and felt we needed to stop here. So we stopped, got out, and started walking. We walked past a couple houses cause they didn't feel right, then we saw a man working on his truck. We both knew in a instant he was the person we were looking for so we walked over and started talking to him and I started throwing around old car guy slang like I knew something, and he got a good laugh out of that cause I was talking about a like formula one car cause that's what I heard elder clawson say, and his truck was some old dinky thing so it was just funny to him. Anyways we asked if we could have a couple mimutes and share our message with him. He said sure and brought us inside. His 13 year old daughter came in and sat down with him and his wife was asleep so we just taught those two and once again we taught the restoration the new way and man the spirit was so strong and they even agreed to be baptized! Our testimonies in this new way of teaching are just so strong now! And as we're leaving he said, you know I haven't prayed in a long time but I did this morning and asked God to help me straighten out my life, so thank you. I'm so glad we were able to listen to the spirit and be in the right place at the right time.
It's been a great week and I can't imagine a place I would rather be.
Love Elder White
Love Elder White
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