The General Epistle of Samuel (turn around)

This week has been crazy as far as people we are teaching. First off, we have people to teach. We started the week by stopping by the address a woman we talked with on the street gave to us to meet her at. When we knocked on the door a man answered and said, "You're mormons aren't you?" We affirmed him that we were and he said to come in. We went into the living room to find four other people. The woman we spoke with on the street being one of them. We were fired at left and right with questions and one young lady in particular had a lot of them. Once we got them all calmed down and explained our purpose as missionaries and that we can share with them a series of lessons that will help them come unto Jesus Christ we were able to say a prayer with them and set an appointment for later in the week. Since then we have met with them four more times and shared the restoration and the plan of salvation along with the word of wisdom(there is some work to do there). Their home has been somewhat tough to have the spirit present but many times we have seen it testify of the truth of what we were teaching to one of the individuals named Chris. They will join us for church on Sunday which we are quite excited about.

The second great experience we've had with teaching people was with a woman named Rachel. We met her on the street last week and shared about the Book of Mormon. She agreed to have us come by with a copy and share more about it. We set an appointment for this past Thursday and went on our ways. Thursday rolled around and we knew we wouldn't be able to go into her house if there wasn't another male there. We had done all we could to get a member to come with us but nothing worked out. We thought about rescheduling but had a strong feeling that we should go anyway. We prayed that it would be made possible that we could go in. When we knocked on the door the first thing she said to us was sorry about how cold it was in her flat because she had a bloke there working on the boiler. We looked at each other with a smile and followed her in. We had an incredible lesson with her and again we could see how the spirit was working within her and testifying of the truth of the message we shared. It all clicked in her head and she agreed to be baptised at the end of march. When we invited her for a specific day she said, "everything in my head is telling me to say no and not to put a date on it but I feel like I should say yes, so yes." We have been in contact with her since and she has been reading quite a bit of the Book of Mormon. We have been richly blessed this week! 

The coming week we will be working hard to help these people progress and to find more to invite. Well we have made plans and got approval to go to the castle in Dover with the Ian and Jo(she was recently baptised). We'll be doing that Friday. Elder T has a good camera so we'll be taking a ton of pictures. Thanks again for all your love and support!

Love,

Elder Dalton