"Bits & Pieces" from August 2013

August, 5 2013....
"This week has been a great week for us!! the hard work finally paid off and our prayers were answered! So first off there are two elders they call the traveling AP's they're not the APs just a little different but they go to elders and do 48 hour exchanges and that is what we needed!! They helped us out so much and we got 12 new investigators this week! and committed 4 people to be baptized this month!!! I hope everything goes well and right but its awesome to see the change in people! there is a guy named Antoine that has been investigating for 3 years now and we finally got him to a date for the 17th.  I'm praying that it works out and he doesn't back out! but we have been working and tracting a lot but I love it no matter how tired I get I'm always smiling and having fun!!"

August 12, 2013....
"This week was a good week we did a lot of service this week because we had so many dropped appointments.  but the temple was such a great experience and the cool thing is now we get to go like 8 to 10 times a year!! It used to only be twice a year so I'm excited about that. zone training was good I love president, He's such a cool guy!! and pushes us so much! listen to the much from mulan called "I will make a man out of you". Thats his theme song haha. but some of the people I'm teaching... Antoine is about 42 and has the biggest testimony in the world of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. He has been investigating for 3 years and still hasnt been baptized cause his wife is baptist and wont change. its been way hard on him cause she said she got a different answer about the church.. which cant happen. but we are working hard with him.   Dezwan is 22 got out of jail a little bit ago and wants to change his life he is very open just has some issues we have to work on he told us he was going to go to church but didnt come.. which sucks but we will get on him for that.  Kathy Meyers we got from the Cartersville elders she is awesome and knows the church is true we know she will be baptized for sure on September 7! so that will be good she is an older lady. and theres some others but we don't see them as much. There are a lot of people in this ward that  Ilove so much. Ones name is Sister Jones or Heaven Jones and there is only one Heaven Jones!! She is a southern black lady about 45 years old and so black!! She converted in 1999 from catholic. but every testimony meeting she gets up and starts singing like gospel music like a baptist church and is pretty much preaching and yelling as well!! its so awesome I love it. She has the biggest testimony we are also helping her with moving a lot of her stuff. But thats about it. I dont know if Ive told you but it has rained about everyday that Ive been here.... its nice but sucks at the same time. On Thursday it was sooo bad but me and Elder Goss wanted to have fun so we decided to go tract in it!! it was so fun!"

August 19, 2013....

" ya its still raining here i cant believe it people said it hasnt been this way for like 20 years! but its good cause its not hot we just get wet haha. but this week was really good and bad at the same time. bad news first we have had to lose a lot of our investigators cause they dont want to change there lives so they dont want to hear us tell them to change so we have lost quite a few. but the good news is that kathy myers is amazing! i think i told you about her last week and said her baptismal date was set for sep. 7th but our miracle this week was she called us on tuesday and said i cant wait any longer i wanna get baptized as soon as possible!!! it was music to our ears!! so she is now getting baptized this saturday!! the 24th im so excited she is so awesome and ready and cool story we were at her house last night teaching her and at the end of the lesson we asked her to pray and she got all nervous and said that it would be her first time ever praying out loud and infront of people! and it was so awesome to hear her prayer the spirit was way strong and i loved it. so she is our miracle for the week. but we tracted quite a bit this week and i dont know why we did cause it never works here in the south. we didnt find anyone new this week but we trying to get more referrals from the ward"

August 26, 2013.....
"the baptism was amazing! Kathy is so golden its awesome to know that you had a little help on having someone enter the gate through baptism and ultimately getting on the path to eternal salvation!! but the week was a little slower cause we were focusing a lot on the baptism but saturday was the craziest day so far on my mission! so the day started early and me and elder goss got to help a kid with his hiking merrit badge and got to walk 20 miles!!!!! it sucked so bad and the crazy thing is we did it in 5 hours but aint nobody got time for dat again haha after that we had the baptism which was amazing ill send the pics!.....

but my favorite member is brother seawell he is a southern guy and one of the smartest men ive ever met he helps us out a lot. and thats where i get all my southern food! but he actually has whole chapters memorized its crazy hes so awesome on sunday we actually had a lesson in his home! his daughter kind of went of the road and is doing her own thing but she brought her boyfriend named charles he's black and a nonmember and we got to teach them. he reminds me a lot of dad. and he just wants to improve his life we watched the restoration with them and he started crying it was awesome the spirit was strong and we left him with a book of mormon and he said he'd read it. and were having a lesson with him next sunday."