Hello Family!
This week went by pretty fast! remember those kittens? There is 3 of them i One is named Elder, The other Jones, and then one of them is Smith. ...cute...
We had exchanges with the other Elders in our district and i think it was definitely needed. We had kept trying to do them in the past but something came up so we weren't able to. But it worked out and it was definitely a breath of fresh air. Not that anything is wrong in either of our companionship's but it just felt good to have a little change up. I was with Elder Brown and got to be in the south Elders area. Their area is the ghetto... haha the dividing line between us and them is where it stops and gets.. "better." but it was so fun to be in the ghetto! There are a ton of black people and the way they talk is so fun! I want to pick up their accent! haha
The other day we decided to go to the farthest town in our area and tract up there for the day. So we take an hour drive up to this little town called Stockland and we get there and it is literally the smallest town i have ever seen! it has like 20 houses in it and we tracted the whole thing out in an hour. And had no success other then this one guy we talked to but we didnt get a return appointment with him. It ended up being an unproductive day and i feel like we could have gotten more work done down in our area... Im learning.
We have this guy that we have been working with along with previous Elders. His name is Matt Jones and he knows the church is true and wants to get baptized but his family hasnt been accepting of it and they have bad marriage problems and they have been threatening divorce for a long time. So like 3 weeks ago we stopped by his house. and we walk in on him and his wife in a huge argument! (it was probably the most awkward thing ever) and while we were there his wife took the kids and stormed out. Afterwards we sat there and tried to help him out. Well the last three weeks have gone by and we havent really been able to get a hold of him. On our way back from stockland we got a message from the bishop talking about matt. We asked him yesterday about it and he told us that the Divorce is definitely going to happen. and we shouldnt bother him right now while it happens. IT. BREAKS. MY. HEART... To see a family be torn apart. He said after its all worked out he is going to get baptized, but the fact that his family is getting torn because of it Kills Me!
I know this Gospel is true. I know that families can be together forever. And i want everyone to experience the same joy I have felt, and continue to feel, from this Gospel!
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