Shout Out to the Forefathers!!!
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| Mikey and Elder Hess 4th of July |
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| Super long alien worm that tried to make it's way into the crib to infect me and Durrant but we stopped that right in it's tracks! |
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| Brotherly Love! Hess, Durrant and Mikey on Pday. |
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| More Haircuts by Mikey. Doesn't this look like the WORST blanket to use as a cape, haha!!! |
Well Well Well here we are again!!!
haha another week in Mena!!!!
Last week was a little rougher as
you heard and this week we were on the grind!!! I think I learned a very
valuable lesson last week and something that my main man Rick Davis was telling
me was that missionary work is the absolute hardest work you will do in your
life. You are trying to talk about a subject that nobody likes to talk about
and have people change their lives. So if you aren’t involving the Lord of
course you won’t be able to find people and of course you won’t see success.
That is something I really have been trying to be better about is instead of
just relying on myself and my own thinking of what we should be doing I need to
pray more and ask our Father in Heaven. So Elder Durrant and I did that this
week and things actually got better. Funny how that works.
This week we were knocking so many
doors but making sure that we were praying first to know where we needed to be
and we ended up finding something like 8 new people that wanted us to come back
and that included one family as well! On Sunday we were set to have something
like 12 investigators at church!
So we call and guess what? haha None
of them want to come or they don’t pick up the phone etc. etc. haha So me and
elder Durrant and Brother Davis all head out to the one person who actually did
pick up and say that he might come and so we drive to this guy’s house and he
had fallen back asleep since we called and woke him up haha. But he comes out
and actually ends up coming to church haha. He woke up at 9:55 and was at chuch
by 10 haha it was awesome but man Jason ended up loving church and we discussed
baptism and he is going to work towards being baptized soon. He also told us to
go see one of his friends and make sure that he comes to church.
While door knocking too we found
this guy named Michael but he goes by Web hahaha which is a long story, but he
told us that he wanted to come to church so we got his number and said we would
call and then be there to pick him up on Sunday. Well he didn’t pick up when we called but we swung by Web's
house and he actually couldn’t come to church because he had to go to work at
KFC and he actually just recently got out of prison and we had a good emotional
talk with him. Later that day Web texted us and told us how he never expected
us to actually come and try to pick him up for church and that nobody has ever
cared enough to try to take him to church and it was just super cool to see how
excited he was!
Tasha is doing pretty well and will
be baptized, she just has a couple of steps to take before we can really get
things moving for her and her daughter.
We are still pushing hard haha I
have started to keep track of the statistics of when I door knock because I
want to record it so I can see myself improve in letting people feel the Savior’s
love when I stand at their door. After praying about where we should go and who
we should see this week was just a ton better and Elder Durrant is awesome at
following the spirit and I am super lucky to have him as my comp!
I love you all happy 4th yesterday
I had an awesome day!!! We got together as a zone and it was super fun!!!
Congrats to Lori and Lee on the
marriage love you guys and miss you! Also I realized I never shouted out Anna's
birthday on here and can’t believe I spaced shouting her out! I miss all the Livingston/Messervy
crew and Anna! 2nd family right there :)
Love you guys take care have a
great week!
