So I got some exciting news. We just found out on Friday that Elder Holland is coming down to Houston on August 26th and he will be talking to all 3 missions in the area (includes us!) and his meeting will start at 5 p.m. and will go for 90 minutes. I am so stoked! Elder Holland is one of my favorites so I can't wait to hear what he has to say. Plus this is taking place in downtown which will be great to see since I haven't been down there since December!
Well this past week we felt the record heat that have been 100+ as we have been tracting all day everyday and Elder Ulugia and I got discouraged one day during the week (my bad on my part I should have been a better example at that point) but we had been tracting all day in this crazy weather with 0 success at all. Well eventually the day finally ended and we got home, but I remembered a thought from President Pingree. He said that as we are faithful and obedient the mission will be blessed. Now the key word there was the mission, not the Wheatstone area. So as Elder Ulugia and I are faithfully trying to find people to teach, the Lord is blessing our hard work to the whole mission where it is needed. So I shared this with Ulugia and we were back to cracking jokes and having a grand ole time. But we did receive a blessing yesterday. We had a return appointment from tracting earlier in the week who told us to come back on Sunday so we could sit down with him and his family. So we showed up and he gladly let us in. Elder Ulugia and I went in prepared to share the Restoration message but Lenny (the father) had a lot of great questions he has always wondered about. He asked about prophets, families, the Bible, the Book of Mormon, marriage, etc. So Elder Ulugia and I were bouncing all over the place trying to answer his questions as best as we can. But then he asked us about our view on the heaven and hell theory we told him about the Kingdoms of Glory while using 1 Corinthians 15: 40-42 and they really loved it! They believed that we have a loving Heavenly Father and He wouldn't be mean enough to just put people in either one or the other. They believed that was unfair to a lot of people so the Kingdoms of Glory really made sense to them. It was really neat to see the scriptures teach them. So we have Lenny, Servia, Angel, and Lauretta as new investigators.
It is great to hear from y'all especially Dallin wat it do brah! I love y'all and pray for y'all!
-Cory Barton
