Another awesome week in Kansas is in the books. This week was quite the week. I have had a cold and have been super sneezy but I'm doing better. Elder Colemere and I had been working super hard all week and we weren't seeing any success. In fact quite the opposite many of our investigators fell off. It was really frustrating to be honest. But we didn't give up. Saturday came around and the Lord provided. Saturday we met a ton of people that were pretty interested in learning about the church and a couple speak Spanish. I love it when we get to use our Spanish.
Then later Saturday night we had a lesson with this family, they hadn't been progressing very much. Missionaries have been working with them for quite some time. We brought our ward mission leader with us and it was awesome. He was super bold with them (in a good way) and the spirit was super strong.
Then Sunday rolled around and that was the busiest day of church ever. We walked into church and sat next to one of our investigators. A couple minutes later our ward mission leader grabbed my shoulder and said, "Elder, there is a family of four sitting in the back that came to check out the church, would you go sit with them?" We very gladly went a sat by them and got to meet them a little bit. After Sacrament meeting they gladly gave us their contact information and told us to give them a call and stop by sometime this week. We are pretty excited about that.
So like 2 weeks ago a inactive member called us and said he was on the verge of suicide and didn't think he could make it any longer. We testified to him and he said we could come visit him. We drove down to his house immediately. That was one of the weirdest lessons ever. He was super drunk and had the largest beer can collection I have ever seen. It was really hard to teach him when he was as drunk as he was and how he thought god wanted him dead. We were there for some time and before we left we gave him a blessing. He said he would come to church. But we weren't to sure if he would actually come. He ended up coming. And then yesterday he came again. He came up to us and said "thank you so much for visiting me a couple of weeks ago. Since you left I haven't had any desire to drink alcohol and haven't touched it since. I have also been reading the Bible everyday." It was so awesome so hear that from him. He is a totally different man now and he is happy. The atonement can change anyone no matter the circumstance. The church is so true.
Elder Johnson
Las fotos:
1-3) we were biking and saw a trail thought it would be a short cut.
Next thing we knew we were in a maze of this grassy stuff. It's was
really cool and fun.
4) Elder Clifford and I looking our best
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