Every time we go to Hillside Manor, the rehab place, we teach more and more people it is awesome i am not sure if I already have told you thins but a few weeks ago the Sisters from another area were told by a member in their ward to to go visit this less active guy who was this ladies brother, but since he was in our area we went with them. When we got there we taught him and his friend came, Lee Snell, and then this last time Lee was with his friend Tamie outside so we invited her to come in and listen to the lessons as well and so she did. It's like a gold mine here it is awesome. Then yesterday we were able to have a mini sacrament meeting there with them, the Spirit was so strong and Tamie said she wants to get baptized at the beginning of next month. So it is exciting.
A while ago when I was on exchanges here in Missoula I went to lunch with this less active lady who only wants to meet with us is because her daughter is on a mission and she wants to understand more of what her daughter is doing. this lady was baptized when she was 8 but then her parents got divorced so they stopped going to church. She remembers primary songs and that's about it. She said when missionaries have gone over there in the past they sang songs or shared a scripture but we felt like we should share the message of the Restoration so we did and that was the first time that she had heard that. So it was awesome and she said she was going to start reading the Book of Mormon again so hopefully she does!
We taught Stephan this week and we wanted to read King Benjamin's address with him because we thought they would relate since he used to be an ex preacher. But he was talking way too much and for some reason it was just super hard to understand him. so we didn't get very far and towards the end we were finally able to read like 10 verses from it, and he said he would finish the first part of it before next time, so hopefully he does.
we finally got to teach Amber, someone the missionaries who had tracted into a while ago but they/we haven't been able to get back to her because she has been busy or sick or something else came up so we were finally able to teach her the Restoration. She said it was really weird ha but she said that she would learn more and read and pray about the Book of Mormon, so thats all we can ask! pretty cool.
elder horsley and I made a lemonade stand haha it has been way hot so it was a good idea. we were in an alright place by the church and across the street from a pool, so we thought more people would come but only a few members showed up and some kids haha oh yeah I guess a couple less active people showed up, but they weren't in our ward, we invited them to go to church so hopefully they went! oh yeah so obviously we couldnt sell the lemonade so our sign said FREE lemonade ha and this lady stops traffic rolls down her window and says "are you making any money with your free lemonade sign? it is hard to make money when your sign says free" haha it was like well yeah we arent having a lemonade stand to make money haha people are so funny.
We built some character and got some blisters from raking up tons of pine needles for a less active lady and riding our bikes all over. they're gnarly. its been toasty and most of the people we have found we havent been able to meet with again, so that blows we try and try but no cigar, so hopefully this week we can find them or find new people. It is so funny when people come to the door and you can see them and they can see you and they yell to their spouse or parent and then they walk away and try to hide thinking/ pretending we couldnt see them haha ah man too good
love you all hope you have a great week!
love always
Elder David Witt
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