A Week of Miracles

 It was an amazing week. We had two exchanges and we picked up two new people to teach. We also got Denise on baptismal date for Sep 5!  It was actually pretty cool how it happened.  Elder Bennion had pushed pretty hard to put her on date on trade offs, but she didn't fully commit one way or the other.  Last night we were meeting with her again. We were asking how her week went and she said she received an answer that she was ready.  In her exact words she said the holy ghost told her if not now then when.  She agreed to September 5 and all we need to teach her now is the commandments and get her to church a couple more times!

We were also referred to this fellow by the name of JR this week.  He has been a wild ride to teach to say the least.  He has read almost all of the Book of Mormon and he said this book more clearly explains Jesus Christ than the Bible!  That was pretty sweet, but he got caught up on 2 Nephi 6:9 because he believes in the Trinity.  He thinks we have two "Jesuses".  We are now working to overcome that concern.

It has been incredible these past couple of months figuring out how to do missionary work from the apartment. We usually spend the day making videos and posts and then 6-9 we message people over Facebook. It has been incredible seeing the miracle that have come from Facebook.  I was actually able to place my first Book of Mormon the other night using Facebook! We are even starting to get people to church that were found on Facebook.  I'm honestly kinda bummed I'm leaving just as we are getting this Facebook thing figured out.  The goal pre-quarantine was to have 10 meaningful contacts every day and it's still the same thing in quarantine. It's just over Facebook and doing calls. I'm betting we will soon be having people baptized and confirmed who were found through Facebook!  It's definitely not come without the bumps along the road, but we are figuring out a new way of doing missionary work!

Pictures.

-Elder Bennion burned his fingers cutting peppers so he put them in milk trying to cool them off.

-Elder Bennion and I with the whole green screen set up!