Cool Experiences in the Ward

Pilot Butte

The week here was good. We were able to continue to find a lot of people to teach. The Lord has been blessing us with a lot of people to talk with. We found a guy last week who was walking with his son. He told us we could come by sometime. So we stopped by this week and he was with his girlfriend and they let us in and we had a good conversation for about 45 minutes! They invited us back and we had another really good lesson with them about the Plan of Salvation. She had some questions about it, but at the end she told us that everything made perfect sense and that she felt really at peace about it. One of the miracles of it all was that she does people’s nails for work, and she was talking about us and what we were teaching with a customer of hers. It turns out that that customer was a member of our ward! So she was able to meet her and talk a little bit about the church. 

We had another cool experience this week. A boy in the ward was getting baptized, so the family asked if we would speak at the baptism during the part where the boy and his dad were changing out. He invited some nonmember friends, so they thought it would be a cool idea. We were able to speak and, essentially, teach the first lesson about the Restoration of the Gospel. We showed a video as well, and it went really well. Not only was it a good opportunity to help share the gospel with non-members, but it was also a good way that we were able to build trust with the ward. 

We also had interviews this week, so that was fun! It was really good to be able to see President and Sister Tateoka again and to have some time to talk with them. I really appreciate them, they do a lot.