This past week was great! I am feeling good about this area and am excited to see it continue to grow both in how many people we teach and how many miracles we witness. We received news from our president that we can now eat in members homes again. Of course we got right to it and have already had a few member lessons following a meal. The ward here was so excited to have missionaries in their homes again and it really made us happy to be able to meet and help them however they need.
The week was filled with various service opportunities and responsibilities as always. We taught a few great lessons with our new friends, one being Bryan. He received a copy of the Book of Mormon with a heartfelt note from a friend in high school and has had it for a while. We taught the first discussion about the Restoration and he had tons of questions. Sometimes that's a good or a bad thing but nonetheless the spirit was testifying strongly. He is a creative director/DJ at his church so was unfortunately unable to make it yesterday. Meeting with another guy Keith, we talked about his last commitment to read Ether 12. He noticed a lot of similarities to Paul's writing style and has a firm belief in the Bible. He had a few questions as well such as why we don't have the gold plates today. I told him it's simple, it would be too easy to know it's true if the plates were there sitting in front of us, no faith would be required. I hope he can read that chapter over again to solidify the topic of faith. He also asked us what scriptures changed our lives personally, and I was caught off guard because this showed true interest in his desire to change too. I gave him 3 Nephi 11 as I have recently been reading these chapters of Christ's arrival. Knowing of this event has changed me and I know it can affect him too.
On another note, I made about a billion cookies this past week and brought them to almost every appointment we had scheduled. People seemed to like them so shout out to mom for the oatmeal chocolate chip recipe. Little miracle there as I didn't have any salt so we went over to the neighbors to borrow some. No one was home but next door I recognized a father and daughter outside speaking Spanish. I asked him and he was sure caught for surprise. Talked to his whole fam and they're from Cuba so the accent was wild. Planning on dropping off some cookies to say thanks for the salt, we'll see where it goes. Anyways, go check out the video we made on Finding Christ in Knoxville and share it with someone.
Keep going and doing, chao!
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