Oct. 12, 2015

This week was good. We taught lots of lessons to investigators and less actives. 

We taught Ben in the middle of the week and that was really good. He has some real intent. He is a chef and is going to culinary school to be a chef. Next week for FHE he said that he is going to bring some treats! 

 We went on exchanges with the APs on Saturday. We had a really busy day! We taught Ben again. He is really progressing rapidly. He has not attended church yet but he will have to before he is baptized. 

Yesterday we had a turkey dinner with a less active. He likes the missionaries. In the past the missionaries would go over to his house and visit him. He, like Ben, is a cook and he would feed the missionaries.

The knee is doing lots better. It was just weird that it happened.

Our other investigator Rodel, who we met with on Thursday, has to stop smoking before he is baptized. His date was on the 7^th, but he has continued to smoke. He says that he has smoked less, and he has to smoke outside because they have newborn twins. Before we went over, we were wondering what to teach him. We looked at his progress record and noticed that he has not been taught lesson 2, The Plan of Salvation, so we taught him that with a focus on the temple, Eternal Life, and the Celestial Kingdom as the end goal instead of baptism. Rodel and his wife are Filipino. His wife is a member. I really liked what his wife said during the lesson, which I think was an eye opener. She said, after the lesson, that it will not be a plan of happiness for her if Rodel is not there in the Celestial Kingdom, and if they are not sealed in the temple. I think that was really good for him to hear. 

    We helped out with this move on this acreage in the middle of nowhere! This guy had a junkyard! We filled a 5 ton, 3 ton, and 53' semi trailers! This guy had tons of junk!