Week 2 in Andover

This past week has been good. We had an investigator drop us, but that is OK. We had an FHE with a family who has been investigating for a year now and it went great it was so much fun. We met with that same family on Thursday and committed them to work towards a baptismal date of Oct 18th. The dad has had a couple baptism dates in the past and hasn't made them, but we are sure he will make this one. We are doing all we can to help him stop some bad habits so he can make it and be baptized with his whole family. He really wants to be baptized because his wife died a year ago and he wants to be able to have his daughter do her baptism in the temple. So we are doing everything to get him to that point. I am sure he is going to make it this time.

So Ron and Heather didn't show up to church again it is frustrating because they sound so committed to coming in our lessons, but then they don't show up hopefully we can get them there at least once soon. That will help them progress so much more then they are right now.

The Liberian food at Harry's wasn't too bad he toned it down from super spicy to just a little spicy but he gave us so much to eat. I would finish and then he would say, "more, eat more". I had so much rice and soup that night it was crazy. We had a dinner appointment at a member's right after that. We had roast beef, mashed potatoes, and pie we were so full!!! I thought I could eat a lot, but oh my gosh that was too much food! 

Harry is coming along so well. We had only read the introduction and all the testimonies in the front of the Book of Mormon and he already said he knows it is all true and that Joseph Smith was a prophet. It is all so crazy amazing. He said he would get baptized but he is old and is super concerned about if he is healthy enough to get baptized. We think he is, but we will see. Hopefully he realizes it is better done sooner rather than later. 

I had a pretty cool experience on Saturday night we were seeing where we should go tracting and we hadn't been having much success tracting this week. We choose a place and prayed about it and then each of us opened to a random scripture mine was Alma 26:22 which reads;

"Yea, he that repenteth and exerciseth faith, and bringeth forth good works, and prayeth continually without ceasing—unto such it is given to know the mysteries of God; yea, unto such it shall be given to reveal things which never have been revealed; yea, and it shall be given unto such to bring thousands of souls to repentance, even as it has been given unto us to bring these our brethren to repentance."

After that we knew we were suppose to go to that place to tract. While we were tracting there yesterday we found a couple potential investigators and one new investigator who we taught the Restoration to on the door step. We got a return appt and she has a young family which is like the type of people we really want to teach. 

All in all this week has been pretty good. I do love it out here. The members in the Ward are really nice and the bishop said they are going to be revamping the Ward missionary work so that the members will be asking us to go with them to appts and for us to get more referrals.

Love,

Seth 

P.S. The picture is the view from my apartment