Staying Busy in Mena
heeyyyyy
friends and family!!!!! Hope you’re all doing excellent!!
Elder Durrant and
I had a super good week this week and the work is starting to pick up. It is
sooo different from downtown Tulsa where I was with Elder Nau and always having
investigators to teach. So Elder Durrant and I spend a lot of time just finding
people or at least trying to. We knocked doors for at least 4 hours every day
haha and I can see the Lord's hand in blessing us.
This week was a
little rough because there was a town fair called Lum&Abner. So nobody was
home on the weekend as we tried to knock doors. A couple investigators told us
they didn’t want to see us anymore and it seemed like the odds were stacked
against us. But then on Sunday we had a huge miracle and 8 people came to
church!!! They all loved it!!! It was crazy. The Saturday before Sunday we
literally had people coming up to us and asking us where our church was. A girl
named Terri literally knocked on our front door one morning and asked what time
church was hahahha super cool!!
There is this
family out here named the Lowry's and they were baptized by Elder Nau and man
they are the most amazing people and I love them so much. Anyway they have a
bunch of kids that are all super cute and funny and we are going to baptize two
of the kids on Saturday.
A sad story
that happened was Brother Lowry (Lowry dad) called us one night and said to
come over and that his sister was there and needed our help. His sister's
husband had just walked out on her and left her all alone with no money and two
kids. We went over there and comforted her and read her some scriptures and
gave her a blessing!!! The ward then all came together and helped us get food
for her and her kids! Then she came to church on Sunday and I think will also
be baptized soon :)
I spoke this
week in church on how much God love's his children. It really is weird as a
missionary because you don’t really ever worry about yourself, it is always
about others and just seeing the way that the Lord will put us in somebody's
path at the perfect time to meet them is a testimony to me that the Lord loves
his children. He will never give up on any of us and there is always a way back
to the straight and narrow path. Remember what Christ says in the Sermon on the
Mount, wide is the gate that leads to destruction, but narrow is the gate which
leadeth unto life. There are a ton of ways to find sadness, misery, and hurt.
The gate is wide for those things. But life everlasting can only be found in
Jesus Christ! Love you all!!!!
Have a great
week
Elder Green
