Hello!
One of our investigators that we picked up a few weeks ago is from the
south. She grew up as a southern baptist and has the strongest southern accent
haha. Its hilarious I love it. She is so awesome. Each week we do a trade. Elder
Growcock has a deep fryer so we deep fry a bunch of cut up tortillas to make
chips and she makes a ton of really awesome salsa and we have eaten chips and
salsa together for the last 2 Thursdays and have a lesson. Its so great!
Thank you for all the birthday wishes everyone! It was a great birthday. We
spent a good part of the day doing our weekly planning, then had a few lessons,
then went to our ward mission leaders house for dinner, and guess what he made
me for my b-day! A GIANT t-bone steak, tri-tip, bbq'd chicken, and all this
other food, then a brownie cake and ice cream with trick candles in it so it was
a little challenging to blow out haha. But they had a few other families from
the ward over too so it was a good size party and they all sang to me. It was a
great day. And mom I got the birthday package Thursday night! So I waited to
open it until Friday morning, so it was great timing! Thank you so much!!
This week was kind of rough, but full of miracles at the same time. We have
been trying this new thing with people while we tract where we explain to them
that as representatives of Jesus Christ, part of our calling is to leave
blessings on people, their families, and their homes. Elder Growcock and I had a
few good experiences with it this week as we put it to practice. We prayed with
a woman named Donna this week, and we prayed for her husband Steve, that he
would be able to recover from his recent back surgery, and while we did we all
had such an amazing experience full of the Spirit, that I am sure Donna wont,
and cant forget. We then talked about how another part of our calling is to
teach people and help them come closer to our savior Jesus Christ and asked if
there would be a time when we could come back and talk about that with her, and
she was like, "Yes of course!" So we left her a Book of Mormon and we are going
back this week!
There are so many other things that happened this week with investigators
coming to church, and experiences that are happening to them that build my
testimony of how great our Heavenly Father is and how much power he has, and
also how much power the adversary has. Satan is trying so hard to drag down
those people we are teaching and keep them from reaching their baptismal dates.
Its scary! But it is very cool to see the faith that these investigators have. I
wish I could tell you all about these experiences but time just does not permit.
I am sorry! But I love you all very much and I am so happy that you are all in
my life. Talk to you next week!
Love,
Elder Brad Dillard
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