On Monday we started teaching a part member family and we had a good first lesson. We're going over tonight. Also saw the Liberty Dam and went Rock Climbing.
Went on exchanges on Tuesday to Westminster. We tried the house of my mom's ex-boyfriend but he moved out. So imagine my surprise when I expect to see this alleged potential dad, and see a Indian man (dot not feather). That night was an interesting night when we visited an investigator who had some problems with evil spirits. Inquire in person on that one.
Wednesday we did some Meals on Wheels service, had lunch with Frank, and knocked some doors. I feel like we're fairly ineffective in the afternoons here and its not the most fun. But we're trying that's for sure. I did talk to a guy at 7-11 who took a pamphlet. That salvaged the day I suppose.
Thursday we weekly planned, then saw Kevin and Rita. Rita put herself on date and told us she'll get baptized August 19th. Good for her!
Friday was good when we went over to a guy named Paul's house. He's about to move so it became apparent that we weren't going to be able to give the generic Restoration lesson. Instead we showed him LDS.org and got his address for other Elders to get with. It was nice to give people some resources and bare testimony.
Nancy wasn't interested, but we got a train picture at least.
On Saturday we tracted in the morning then tried some people in the afternoon. One house of an Apostolic family was kind and we talked to the dad and son outside. Matt and James were their names. We listened for a while about what they believe then we were able to talk about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. A good question they asked was, how do you know Joseph Smith was an actual prophet. Then we told him how the apostles, who they love so dearly, came to Joseph and gave him the power Christ gave them. They also related well when we told him Joseph Smith is either a prophet or a phony, they said Christ was either a liar, lunatic, or what he said he was. James the dad, already had a Book of Mormon and Matt took one and said he'd read. That felt good.
Sunday was a great day. A introspective one for me for sure. The Linger Longer after also helped to make it a better day. That night we had a Stake Priesthood meeting, I enjoyed it a lot.
I got to see Elder Dyer who will be holding my hand on take off and landing next week.
Excited for my last week and also anxious to find my place in the real world again. So its been a weird birthday.
Elder Simmons
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