This week was a successful week of re-contacting potentials that we had met in the last couple of weeks. Lots of miracles! One man who works a tire shop who live in Bessemer (40 min away) said that him and his family are moving to Homewood by the end of the month and he wants us to come over to teach/meet them! Wohoo! We also found out where a referral lived by chance and was able to meet a former investigator who lives in that same apartment who had been reading the Book of Mormon off and on, and had been really enjoying it. Then we tried to go give a blessing on this families home that we met last weekend, but they weren't home when we had set the appointment. the next day, I was with one of the English sisters and we were running super late to meet back up with sister butt and her companion, but I felt like we needed to go see if this family was home. The woman was- Amy- and she said come in! she felt bad that she had missed us yesterday and said she was hoping we would come back today (inspiration!) she speaks English and Spanish and so we taught her about what our role was and some basics about the church and all the concerns she had from the church she is going to were answered in what the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints could offer her. The spirit was so strong and amazing! We told her we would come back the next day to teach more. So Sister Butt and I went back, and she had done some reading and expressed more concerns on how she really wanted to grow closer to God. She said that she felt close to Him every time we came, and so we invited her to church, told her about the plan of salvation and restoration a bit, and invited her to be baptized. She said YES!!!! Wow we were super stoked. She is a 2nd Ingrid, so prepared and ready. We love her already.
Otis is still doing really well, we did a object lesson about repentance involving brownies and dirt- and how when you repent the Lord will give you a whole new brownie! He got super excited and shared that punch line with everyone before we good. We were proud of him.
Also, Sister Butt met this man one night who wanted to find a church to go to, apparently he came to church (she didn't recognize him because it had been dark) but he CAME! he said he wanted to attend services in English- so that he could learn more English and more about God at the same time. He said that we could bring the English missionaries by this weekend to help explain more. He really like that.
There are amazing people here who are ready! We just have to keep up with the Lord. He really his hastening his work! D&C 88: 73 which says, "Behold, I will hasten my work in its time." Which Elder Holland added, "It's time."
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