Wow this week has been crazy,
First off transfers... i get to stay in Huber for another one.... and they finished the other appartment so i actually get to live in my area! Instead a of 6 miles outside of it...
However my luck has not stopped... i get a new companion... hahaha... a lot of missionaries count transfers or months, i count companions. I mean i have had a new one every transfer so far. So its basically the same as counting transfers. With the mission merg all but one companionship got broken up from the columbus mission...
I will also be a district leader as of tomorrow... its gonna be interesting
Now time for the fun stuff.
On thursday we had interviews with our new mission president... we were there from 11 to 5.... we were instructed on different rules, and my companion didnt take them so nicely... we had a very long conversation that night... and the nights afterward... so that was a little different from the last few weeks. But all will be well over time.
Now in contrast the next day i prayed harder then i had in a long time to have something happen to comfort my companion because he wasnt doing well and we were spoon fed miracles, miracles upon Miracles. To start the day off before we even leave the appartment, i get a facebook message from Deanna, the mother of the family of 8 who read anti, she told us that she had fallen on some bad luck lately and that her kids have been askingnfor us to come back because we bring peace into there home, she also realized that we are the only church that her kids have ever desired to go to. How can she denie a church that gets her kids to want to go to church... we set up a time to meet and mowed her lawn because she has to many kids to be able to do it herself... at the end of our visit austin the 1 year old who just learned how to walk chased us out the door and went to our car because he wanted to keep us there... i love this family, so greatful thst God prepared a way for us to, clear up the problems she had.
But that was only the start of the day. We then did service for ben and his neighbors. And a less active member who is friends with ben thanked us for all we have been doing and said that seeing us around so much has really been making him think about coming back. But then he said ignore what injust said...
So he is making progress slow progress but still progress
The afternoon should be described as a verse of scripture "knock and it shall be opened unto you" we had 4 lessons and all of them happened and then some!!!
First Tammy, tammy is a new lady i found at the beginning of the week we taught her the restoration and she accepted everything we said and asked us to come back another time, well she bailed on that appointment. But she called us on friday and asked us to come over! We started to teach her the plan of salvation and she expressed so much love for what we do and absolutatly loved the idea of it all, the restoration, the world wide message, the love we bring. We were about to leave and the spirit took over and had me invite her to baptism. And she was so supprised, she even cried i didnt know that i could be.... augest 18th here we come, only problem is she is moving so we have to hand her over... its quite the refferal though, i mean she already wants to be baptized lol
After tammy we go off to David, who came to church last week. Well in our last lesson emily his wife stood in the background and just mumbled saying i dont believe that. I will never be mormon, this time she welcomed us at the door, gsve us water and stood in the background making lunch for the kids. She thanked us for coming by and we asked her to participate in the next lesson and she said she would! We were so supprised, it was a night and day difference from the too lessons. David is ready for the gospel, and emily is well on her way! I am so excited
Then we had the lesson with Deanna
Then a lesson with Jean, and she was more worried about transfers then she was about her baptism... it was sad that she was crying but it is outstanding how ready to recieve the gospel she is. She has litterally changed the ward and changes anyone who gets to meet her. Ill talk about her baptism latter
We had one more miracle thwt night, we hsve been trying to meet with a less active part member family( two of the kids are members, when the kids were baptised the parents wanted to but were unable to do to comandment concerns and the wife was offended and says she tried it but its not for her), well guess what they bailed on the lesson.... but Jakob is errin and buddy( the less activesl cousin who do to circumstances we will be staying in there house unable to leave for a good while, was home alone. And he is extreemly prepared to recieve the gospel. He explained to us how it was devine design thst just as he was looking into religion we found him.
We had another lesson with him latter in the week, and he is at the for front of making changes for thst household, we met with him and erin and paula( erins older baptist sister) joined in and all agreed to read the scriptures again, and erinn was apologized for blowing us off and asked us for help with some things she was struggling with!! God really blessed us to be able to find Jakob
Now to the big event, Jean got Baptized! And it was a powerful one... there were 100 no memers there with about 40 members...
She is working hard to baptized as many of her friends as posible as soon as possible.... at the baptism i gave the first talk and preople were already in tears... sadly the jean lives in another missionaries area and so do most of her friends so we just gave them refferals galore and then some....
A lot of people srove over 6 hours to come to jeans baptism. It was amazing, jean is the best person ever. And we finally got to meet her husband!
Thats all i got time to write,
Love yall
Elder Jarvis
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