Jan. 13, 2013

This week was a super busy week for us. Today we got transfer calls and luckily Elder Wedam and I are going to be staying together another transfer because he's really only been here for 3 weeks due to his emergency transfer. We met 4 new investigators this week and they are all super nice. One of them actually came out to church on Sunday which was really cool to see. The big main miracle that we saw this week actually happened yesterday. On our way to church we were stopped by a man asking about where a certain church was in the area. I responded that I had no idea where it was but that we were from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He said that he had met missionaries in the past and asked when our church meeting was. I told him that we were actually on the way to it and if he would like he could join us, but he declined and said that he was going to go drinking instead. I then asked him if we could have his phone number so we could call him later, but he declined that too, so we just gave him one of our pamphlets with our number on it and asked him to call later if he had any interest. So while we were in sacrament meeting I received 2 calls, but couldn't answer it because it was sacrament meeting, so after the meeting I called the number and it turned out to be him. He told me his name and said that he would try to come out next week to church, I told him cool, and then hung up on him. Then in Elder's Quorum I got another call from him saying that he wanted to come to church, I told him that there was only 15 minutes left and there wasn't much of a reason, but he insisted so we told him that we'd meet him outside. Anyways, he shows up to our church with 10 minutes left, and I explain that there are a bunch of meetings going on, but if he would like I could show him the chapel. He said that he would like to go in so we went in together and then he sat down and just started praying, which I thought was a little weird. While he was praying though, he just started to cry and ball up so we knew that something was happening within him, so we patiently waited for him to finish and then talked with him a little after it. He told us that he was an alcoholic and that he is trying to overcome his alcoholism, so we explained briefly about how in our church no one drinks or anything like that and he seemed to like it. Anyways, after the meetings were done we went back to his house and taught him about the Book of Mormon and the power and guidance that he could receive from it and promised him that as he did so that he would be able to overcome his addictions and he accepted a baptismal date for the end of February which will be really exciting. We are going to meet him again tomorrow so hopefully he's read a little bit of the BOM by then!