Oct 25th 2024

 

♡ Elijah is a gem and is an elect soul who's ready to be baptized along with Nico, Bobby, and love 

 

♡ Cirlio and his friend Kevin need to be invited this week to be baptized 

 

♡ even as I am by maxwell is the best book besides the b.o.m I've ever read. I borrowed it from the library and will now be purchasing one ASAP. I highly recommend. 

• Striving to become like Him is a special way of bearing, and sharing our testimony of Him 
• But sincere followership of the living God- who urges us to be like Him in love, justice, kindness, mercy, and purity- can redeem both the individual and mankind. 
• Jesus Christ is our only constant and without him we couldn't bare this life. Monday we had a good little Harry Potter family home evening activity. Our friends loved it!!! We had a good little switch up for tvs and I headed to Madison Lake again, but with sister Coonce. We had a long day. This was day three without a soda. Pretty brutal. We had some good success with teaching some new friends. Got forced into eating an egg salad sandwich but wrapped in a weird see through wrap that you soak into water and it becomes flexible and chewy. There was some tears swallowed with each bite. As day 4 settled in without a bevy I was on my death bed. I think the withdrawals began to hit.

• Had a spirit filled district council followed by a lesson with our new Muslim friend named Ibrahim. He is a king! Very interested and opened. We had Celeste with us and Jibriyl our recent convert was on campus "just sharing the gospel" and decided to join us as well. Jibriyl then proceeded for another hour to share the gospel on campus and testify to anyone we found. He is an absolute dawg. I ran into my friend Taylor again who I met on tvs awhile back. She decided she wanted to enter into a covenantal relationship, so we put together a calendar :)) after all the yapping we needed food.. about 10 minutes in and this fella walks in and says I want to become a member of this church….. choked on some tortilla and jumped up…. So basically, he was meeting with missionaries two years ago and knew it was true but felt it wasn't his time, he's been reading the b.o.m ever since and decided today was the day to walk back in and try again. 

 

You could say this is what every missionary prays for. God is truly providing so many miracles and is continuously working on his children. Bobby is a real gem who is ready :)))) gave me hope that my friend Kwaku will do that one day down the road. Leo our other king came, and we did a quick little lesson, and he is so so, cool. We will invite him to baptism next lesson. 

 

Snuck over to loves and taught her the psal (plan of salvation). She ate it up and makes me laugh so hard. She was very against the idea that she signed up for this life. We zoomed back for Elijah and he is READY. He will be moving out of his house so he can be baptized!!! His girlfriend lives with him and his parents, and he decided the best option was for him to leave. Elijah truly has sacrificed everything to follow Jesus Christ. He's inspiring! We caught up with Jibrily and had a good chat about the priesthood.  

 

Switched for tvs and me and sister Knudsen went to OSU wooohooo!!! We really had a hoot teaching and finding together. I got humbled in front of A huge crowd after deciding to be bold and invite the whole line to church…..I  will not be doing that again. Between the dead silence, the no’s, and the stares I think collectively it was not a hit. Ended the night with a good institute class.