Sept. 4, 2013

This week was pretty good.  We had our usual meetings and went and made some visits.

Thursday evening we tried to visit some possible investigators and they were either not home or were not able to meet with us at that time.  Since none of them were available we decided that we would see if we could meet with some former investigators.  We still had no luck.  No one was home.  We decided to take the long way back to our car and see if we could find some people to talk to.  While we were on our way to the car we saw a couple of members of the YSA branch.  We went and talked to them for a while.  We set up an appointment to see them the next day.  While we were talking to them a lady walked by and asked us if we were Mormon missionaries.  We said we were.  She said that she had almost joined the church but couldn't give up smoking and caffeine.  We told her that we could meet with her if she wanted us to but she said that she was moving in about 3 days.  While we were talking to her she told us about some of the things that had happened to her including being hit by an 18 wheeler.  While talking to her we felt impressed to give her a blessing.  She said that she would like that.  The member we were with offered his apartment as a place to go to give her a blessing.  We went up to his apartment and shared with her a message about pressing through hard times, then Elder Greenwell gave her a blessing.  It was a powerful blessing.  The spirit was strong and she was crying by the end of it.  I was close to tears as well.  She thanked us for the message and said that that was just what she needed.

On Friday we had an appointment that went pretty well.  We talked about baptism and how getting married  will bless them.  We also showed them a video, which he mentioned was very powerful.

Saturday we had another baptism, which was awesome.  He bore his testimony after his baptism on Saturday and then again on Sunday during Sacrament meeting.    That was pretty cool.

We didn't really do anything for Labor day.  We played volleyball and basketball and had FHE