Dear Mom, Dad, Lauren, and Ian,
Wow, it's already the last week of the transfer! It has
been a pretty tough one, but I learned a ton from it. There's a good sized pool
of people we are teaching now, and one of them is coming to church now! A boy
named Joel. We're teaching a lot of his friends too, but he has been at every
single meeting we set up so far. He's also reading the Book of Mormon now as
well! His friends are as well! Joel and his whole group of friends are between
15 and 19 years old. Joel is 17, I believe. But yes, a lot of them are starting
the Book of Mormon now, and they like it so far. We have a few others that are
yet to progress, so we will continue with them!
Stake conference was yesterday! The talks were great.
President Corbitt also spoke to the congregation, and had a great talk about
the missionary work. Said that the members have just as big a responsibility of
missionary work as the missionaries do, and he's right! Out here it's a little
tough to get references from members, not because they don't want to give us references,
but mostly because they aren't looking. There are those few members who are
just golden and help us out however they can, though. And then Elder Zivic
spoke to us as well! He had a lot of time to talk, so he talked about different
things but a big focus was the Book of Mormon. It was perfect because our
investigator Joel was there to listen to it! As a highlight, Elder Zivic talked
about an intended Anti-Mormon sign he saw when he was traveling through Tampa,
Florida. It said ''Don't pray about the Book of Mormon; it's how they
get'cha''. Lol! He then proceeded to talk about how that is the only way we can
ever know if it is true. If not, we'll never have a strong basis or testimony
of the Book of Mormon. He said a lot of other stuff as well, and Joel was
listening very intently.
Boy, this area is finally starting to grow. It took a LOT
of work, and a companion that was willing to put in that work, and now things
are happening. It just like how you always tell me; “When you give your all and
then a little bit more, miracles happen.” Thank you so much for helping me with
all your counsel and advice and love! I'll try to see if they can fix the
photos problem here. Until next week! Love you all! Thanks for everything and
the package! Send my love to everyone at the Celebration of Life thing!
-Elder Froude
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