So we were tracting, as usual, and this lady came out of her house to let her dog out. And we started talking to her and she was so prepared for the gospel, she seemed like our best friend and she seemed really genuinely interested in the gospel, she has been going through some hard times and she was just the perfect investigator, we gave her a Book of Mormon and she told us to come back the next week. So we came back the next week, and just as we were walking up to the house her husband came out of the house to let the dog out and we talked to him and taught him the first vision and gave him a Book of Mormon. He seemed even more interested than she was and we set up an appointment to come back and teach them. We showed up for our appointment and Sister van Overbeek says "How crazy would it be if they let their dog out again when we show up" And sure enough just as we approach the house the lady lets her dog out, and then she turns and sees us, and she yells at her dog to come back in and she goes back inside and closes the door. But we still went and knocked on the door and rang the doorbell twice and she never answered. That my friends is why everyone needs to share the gospel with their friends so that the missionaries can actually have people to teach, because when someone has a friend in the gospel they are way more likely to meet with missionaries and if they have questions then they have a friend to ask their questions to. That is why we should all be praying that we can have missionary opportunities, and looking for missionary opportunities and acting upon them when they arise. Because there is a better way to do missionary work than knocking on doors all day and that is through your friends. We have the truth, the means to salvation, we need to share it with those around us.
On a lighter note, the 16 year old girl that we are teaching is supposed to be getting baptized on September 16th, but it is kind of up to her Dad, so we will see if he allows her to be baptized.
On Sunday the spirit was like hey you should go see that one potential investigator. So we did and turns out that they wanted to come to church that day but they weren't sure where it was at or what to wear. So they are planning on coming to church next week and we set up an appointment with them to teach them. They are a cute native couple with a little boy and I have high hopes for them. She already has a testimony of the Book of Mormon and the Priesthood because some elders in the past gave her little boy a blessing a while ago when he was really sick.
Labor day was just a regular proselyting day, so we tracted a lot, and the ward had a picnic for lunch, so we went to that and that was pretty fun. We have had 3 new families move into the Shawano ward in the past month, so basically the ward doubled, which is great!
I hope you all have a wonderful day and a wonderful week!
Love,
Sister Koyle
Life in Gresham . . . nothing too exciting
This is where we go running every morning
Roxy
and pigs . . .
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