Monday, February 9, 2015
Hola,
This week has been a great week. It has been super crazy! We have been working really hard to find new investigators and to teach a lesson every night. It is tough but it is definitely rewarding. I have a really cool experience to share:
We have an investigator named Miguel. He is in his late 50’s. He has been meeting with the missionaries for 6-7 years. He loves talking with us but he just doesn’t make or keep commitments. We were thinking about dropping him but we decided to not give up because you only fail when you stop trying. We decided to take him on a church tour. We had a member there with us which always makes a lesson good. We walked around the church and talked about all the pictures on the walls and focused on the Restoration. We showed him the baptismal font but we ended up in the chapel. We sat down and we asked Miguel to pray to know if the things we were talking about were true and then we would wait until he would get an answer. We all knelt down and he offered an amazing prayer and we waited. and waited. for about 5 minutes when he said he felt peace and joy. He said he knew that the things we had taught him were true. We then got him to commit to a baptismal date. It was such a cool experience and the spirit we felt in the chapel was super strong.
Keep Miguel in your prayers as we help him prepare for baptism!
This week has been hectic though. Our car is still in the shop and they lost the paperwork and found some additional problems in the engine from the previous missionaries pushing the car to hard so it will still be in for a while. But I am getting pretty pro at walking. We walk everywhere.
Other than standard missionary work, nothing else really happened. We did go out to eat after zone conference on Thursday to Buffalo Wild Wings and my companion Elder Olsen did the Blazin’ Wings Challenge and finished with 30 seconds to spare. We also ate out at a new pizza place right next to our apartment called Baby Bro’s Pizza and Wings and the pizza was slightly disappointing but they had amazing garlic fries! It is crazy all the local food places that there is out here. I am on a quest to find a delicious pizza place.
I love being out here!
I love being a Missionary!
Stay Fresh,
Elder Bryce
P.S. Dad, I have a quick question. I found a talk by Joseph Smith talking about the death of King Follett and I was wondering if it was the King Follett that we are related to. It was a really cool talk and it said he died.
[Answer from Matt’s Dad: Yes, this is your 4th great grandfather. He died at Nauvoo in a well-building accident on March 9, 1844. On April 7, Joseph Smith delivered the “King Follett Discourse” to about 20,000 people at a general conference held shortly after his funeral service. (King was a close, personal friend of Joseph’s.) It is one of the greatest sermons delivered by President Smith and introduces the doctrine, “As man is God once was.” It is published online by the Church here in the Ensign. King’s obituary is found here as published in the Nauvoo Neighbor newspaper.]