"...we are just trying to invite as many people we can to come to church and take book of mormons. It was a lot of fun this week in a couple different ways. The first experience this week that was crazy was when Elder Cowling and I were out knocking in St. Clet. We had book of mormons in the trunk in different languages and normally we carry just French and English bofms. Well there happened to be an italian one in the trunk and elder cowling accidentally grabbed it and forgot to put it back. He told me he had an italian bofm and I thought that we would see one tracting but then I just forgot about that thought. Turns out that a little while later we knocked on this door and started talking to the people at the house. We end up discovering that he was one of the few english people in that town AND an Italian! We were beside ourselves! Ha We were trying so hard to give him a book of mormon and he was trying so hard to refuse it. Ha it got to the point that he was so frustrated he just said 'A Bible! A Bible! I've already got a bible!' Ha no joke! Ha it was ridiculous and I wanted to show him 2 Ne 29:3 but then I just decided to not show him but use the next few verses from memory to form my next question. I ended up asking him if he liked the words of Christ to which he obviously said yes, but then I asked him why he was against having more words of Christ. To which he didn't really respond exactly to my question and kept calling the bofm a bible and we corrected him on that - alas he never accepted the Book of Mormon but it was crazy how he fulfilled prophecy and how God uses us to reach out to his children and just how mindful he is of us.
"Second cool thing that happened this week was this sunday when we passed by an investigator's house and were able to get in and talk with him and his family. It was Rob and Suzanne and their 3 boys Mackenzie, Robby, and Jesse. They are such an awesome family and it was really cool when we were talking to them because we were all in the kitchen and Suzanne was preparing some food and then the 3 boys were sitting at the center island by Rob and all of them were just talking to us and having fun as a family. It has been hard getting in touch with them because Rob travels to South Africa a lot for business and so they're just busy, but we were able to get in yesterday, share a spiritual thought about easter and then set up a return appointment for this friday! They seriously would be such an awesome family in the gospel.
"Third amazing story this week was when we tried passing by a potential yesterday. So about a week or so ago we knocked on this house and a kid around our age answered the door. He was bhudist and we worked really hard to get him to accept the book of mormon - we even said a prayer for him to want to take the book of mormon - eventually he did and we were able to then get his number. So we left and tried getting ahold of him a few days later, but we weren't able to contact him. So we just decided to pass by yesterday. Turns out he wasn't there but when we knocked on the door, another guy answered the door and said 'Guys! What's the good word? Come on in!' We ended up talking to him and he was just asking us about the church and told us that our visit was really timely because just the other day his wife and him had been talking about God and how they want to kind of start going back to church and things along that line and then we show up. It was funny at one point because Elder Cowling was doing most of the talking with him and I was trying to listen to them while also listening to his six year old daughter Everest as she was trying to get me to play with her and her puppets. Ha It was funny because then he, Manny, asked everest, 'everest what did we tell you to do when adults are talking?' To which she answered shyly 'to raise our hand' "That's right' And then she asked, "But, but you were talking to that one (pointing to E. Cowling) but I didn't think you were talking to this one (pointing to me)" Haha it was so funny and everyone was laughing. You've got to give her credit for her reasoning! Ha so then we kept on talking with Manny and he was wanting to know when and where church is. It was just an amazing story - turns out that the guy that we talked to before, Simon, was from nepal. The way they know each other is because Manny climbed Mount Everest and one of the guides on that trip became like a father to manny. So manny told that man that if he needed anything to let him know. So a couple years later he gets a call from that man and was asked to house his son Simon while Simon went to college. So manny said yes and now simon is apart of their family. We had given simon a book of mormon and so we mentioned that with manny and were able to give manny a book of mormon too! And Manny asked us if we had any specific assignment for him and so we gave him one and he committed himself to reading it that night! And he kept saying that we would see him at church this sunday! Amazing story. I hope it goes well. He told us to call him saturday and go from there."
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