To kick it off, my 4th of July was pretty good. I took some nubs on a trip to Baltimore during the day. They enjoyed it, nothings changed there, and its all pictures you've seen before but I'm the one in control of the content of this email anyways.
Camden Yards is always my favorite.
At Poe's grave someone left on apple of top, assumedly for Ed to eat. But I figured he wasn't going to need it anytime soon so I helped him out.
On Wednesday I was on exchanges in Columbia. Elder Larson and I had a pretty good time. We did some officey stuff like helped load a trailer with some furniture for missionaries. We did teach a woman the Restoration. That was super good.
On Thursday it rained a lot so I was glad to weekly plan for a time. We had a dinner with a family and we knocked on their neighbor's door on accident, the woman was really nice and said we could come back another time. That was a surprise, especially because I didn't know what the members looked like so I didn't know what was going on at the beginning of that conversation. Worked out well. Also on Thursday night we taught a guy named Charles the Restoration. It was super good and Charles said he'd get baptized if he came to know if it was true. We'll be seeing him again this week and he will likely come to church too.
On Friday we had a long missionary meeting from 10AM -4PM so that was most of my day and the drive home took like 2.5 hours because we swung up to Pennsylvania. It felt good to be in that State again. But that night we taught a guy named Ray who listened to us and as we told him that we were either the kingdom of God or a complete sham, he said he'd read the Book of Mormon.
Saturday was a crazy day. I was going nuts with talking to everyone, but I wasn't nuts, there is a difference. But essentially we got like 8 potential people who said they'd be interested in meeting with us again. It was crazy. Another guy named Cyrus was on his porch just by chance and I asked him about his solar panels, then we taught him the Restoration. It was epic, he was super excited and also said he'd get baptized if he knew it was true. I've been trying to do better at testifying and it's been helping a lot. I've told every one I can our claim that we are God's Kingdom on the Earth again, and that every person should read the Book of Mormon, because its either the most important book out there to read, or its fake book made up by a guy. Cyrus is awesome. At 8:30 we were walking around our neighborhood, we randomly helped two people bring mattresses into their apartment. I asked them if we could then share our message with them. We were already in their place so it worked out great! They accepted the challenge to read the Book of Mormon. Saturday was nuts.
Sunday was a great day, Logan came to church again with his kids. Sacrament meeting was wonderful. I on the spot taught Gospel Principles, it was decent. In Elders' Quorum we play 20 questions for new folks. Elder Campbell reminded me of a question we were discussing earlier. I laughed too loud so the one being questioned said what is it? So I asked, If you could take one item out of the Word of Wisdom what would it be? There's really no good answer for it but it got a good laugh.
After church we got another investigator named Tarik, he is a nice kid. He didn't know too much about the Gospel so we really had to start from the basics. But it was cool and we'll see him this week and keep teaching him.
Last thing, I tracted my mom's house she grew up in. The guy was nice but was trying to sleep, but he took a picture with me and took a pamphlet!
The End. three more of these emails and we'll be done. I'm having a wonderful time here in Randallstown/Eldersburg. Just working hard and its working out well.
Elder Simmons
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