Oh man. After door contacting and being run off by an anti-Mormon and his swamp wife we offered to help them clean up their yard because we saw some tools around back. They made a few comments, but we just walked back there and picked up some gloves and started working. They watched us move rocks and cut down their little sapplings for a second and then joined in. During the 30 minutes we spent with them they really warmed up to us, they told us about all of their religious background that left them not going to church, a lot of the really intimate and personal trials they were going through, and then for 10 minutes the wife raved, "Oh my gosh, I looove Alligator Boudan (Boo-dAhn). You know that show swamp people, that's total BS, I'm from the Louisiana swamps and there is nothing better there than Alligator Boo-dAhn." Some of the time it felt like the couple was trying to tell God, by means of us, why they felt like they should be excluded from having to go to church. It was a silly 30 minutes.
We got transfer calls last night. We're both staying another transfer! Actually the whole district is except sister Beaumont who is going home, so sister Pectol will receive her second trainer.
We rescheduled James Richards date to the
18th of October. Bishop Pinto came to the lesson last night and we explained priesthood power, his potential to receive it, and hopefully helped him increase his desire to quit smoking. He's at about a pack a day, as opposed to 2. So it's good progress, but it could be better. We'll keep working.
I like the Alma 17-24 missionaries, because when they started teaching people they asked them outright, will you believe everything I tell you? The 2 Kings said yes, and whey did they say yes?! From the example of Christian living they saw in the two missionaries. From the service they offered in their Kingdom. From the tremendous power by which miracles occurred in their lives. From the confidence they lived which derived from their understanding of the plan of salvation. From the Love they showed to the people around them. The evidence of the Restoration of Christ's church is found in the lives of the members. I am working to better my self so that others recognize in me the attributes of one who is living the restored gospel. So when I tell them that by abiding by these precepts theirs and the lives of their family will be blessed beyond any other means the evidence is seen in myself. They'll believe it and they'll see it in who we are - before we ever tell them who we are.
May we live so ourselves.
I love you!
Be the Salt of the Earth!
Elder Tyler Meidell
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