HEY! I apologize for the late e-mail. Yesterday was national black
day- I mean Martin Luther King Junior Day, and we had to go out and work. It's
only a big deal here in the south apparently. To celebrate, My companion and I
got some fried chicken.
Sooo this last week... has been nothing but knocking on doors. Every time
we get a new investigator they fall through the cracks or we can never get back
in contact with them. Pretty uneventful, so this e-mail might be short like last
week, so I apologize.
The weather here is very... stupid. Although I don't miss the miserable
cold of Utah, I do miss the CONSTANT miserable cold. Here everything is
unpredictable. One day it's just kinda cold, then the next it's cold AND rainy.
Then sunny 4 hours later. Then the next day is like 10 degrees and yesterday was
75! It's crazy! but I did enjoy the sunny september weather in January.
Apparently it's supposed to drop 40 degrees and snow today, so yeah I kinda hate
it.
Luckily we do have two very promising investigators. Tedarreus Ezekiel and
Bill Tucker.
Tedarreus: About 3 weeks ago we were trying to find an investigator E.L.
(Elder Leishman) was teaching before I came. He dropped off the face of the
planet, so we went next door where some guys were hanging out. One of those guys
was Tedarreus (TD is his nick-name). We talked to them about the restoration,
and TD expressed a lot of worry about some religions that say there are only a
certain amount of people that can be saved. We have been meeting with him pretty
much all week, and he just soaks everything up like a sponge. No arguement, just
"Oh I didn't know that before". He loves talking to us and he says he's been
more positive and happy since we've been meeting with him. He already knows he
has to stop smoking and we haven't even mentioned the word of wisdom. He came to
church with us this last Sunday, absolutely loved it (all the talks seemed to be
things he needed to hear), and we've scheduled for him to be baptized on Feb.
8th. Hopefully everything will work out.
Bill: Bill is an old man that used to be in the army. He's come to church
with a very close friend of his in the ward, and he knows a little about us
through him. We've only just started talking to him, but he's very promising. He
says everything we teach is similar to the standards he already holds that he
learned from serving his country. He's scheduled for Feb 15th.
Please pray for these gentleman. Not only does the church need them but
they need the church. Pray for their needs. Even though you may not know their
needs, the spirit does.
With Love,
Elder Matthew Gardner
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