This week has been quite the week. Good days and bad days, but every mission is full of those. We have seen many miracles and had some great laughs along the way.
The biggest laugh was getting hit on by a baptist preacher. The contact started out alright but he ended up asking some inappropriate questions and spitting dip juice at our feet, so it didn't end up amounting to much. He said if he ever got married, it would be to me...so ya that was awkward. Other than that, the week was pretty awesome.
On Monday, we went to the Churchill Downs museum and toured the track for the Kentucky Derby. SO COOL!! Our mission Leaders wife took us and it was a blast. We also did lots of service this week for one of our members having a yard Sale. We got some pretty shnazy things so we were super excited.
We had some amazing lessons and miracles happen to us this week as well. We taught Brian and trish (the couple we met late at night while he was cleaning his truck) twice and they have been doing amazing! Trish has been reading the Book of Mormon to Brian and they been loving it!! They were talking to us the other day about how they really feel the Spirit when they read it, to the point where Brian almost started crying (and he is a pretty tough guy) and how it is so much easier to relate to and understand. When we taught them the plan of salvation, they just ate it up! Trish said that this answers questions that not even her preacher could answer when she was growing up. They loved it! Brian kept saying over and over, "God knows me so well. He just knows me." We have such a strong bond with these people and really feel like they are going to make it. We were super excited too because for the last few lessons, they have told us over and over how they won't come to church because they are afraid of being judged. After teaching to doctrine behind that concern, they both agreed to come next week. We are so excited. They are the best!
We also had a miracle with our other sweet baptismal date. She is the daughter of the less active family who is the only one not baptized in her family. We met with her this week and taught her the restoration and cleared up a few misconceptions that other churches had tried to teach her. When we went back to teach her on Saturday, she had finished 1 Nephi (complete with sticky notes and everything!) and prayed about the Book of Mormon. We moved into the plan of salvation and she had some amazing questions, along with her other siblings. Her mom was able to help us teach her which was amazing because it included her more in the process. After the lesson, we set her baptismal date for July 1st and she told everyone at church about it. She is so prepared!! And, to put the icing on the cake, her little brother received the Aaronic priesthood yesterday. This family is really taking a turn for the best in their lives and we are so happy for them :)
That same day, we had another miracle. We were walking around, trying Potentials and formers in a neighborhood since our two lessons there had fallen through and happened upon a potential that had been tried a few times by sister Hoyt and sister Hafen. We knocked and she let us in. We taught her the restoration and she absolutely loved it. She had some struggles with other church she had gone to so when we taught her the apostasy, it all made sense. When we shared the first vision, she was like "Wow! I have never heard that before." We extended a baptismal date for July and she accepted! She is so sweet. We are excited to teach her and help answer more of her questions. We met another guy later that day who expressed that he had a lot of questions that no one could answer (kinda like Trish) so we promised him that this gospel will answer his questions and he was pretty excited as well.
So, just another good week in the "go". We were given a new nickname--the Go-Go Gladiators so I guess you could say it's getting pretty serious...Life is good. The church is true. The book is blue. And Jesus is a Mormon. Love y'all! Have a great week.
Sister Hoyt
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