HEYYY Y'ALL!!!
Well it
was another great week here in Georgia! I swear, I love this place more and
more every day! The people are amazing and there's nothing like hearing
someone cuss at you in their southern twang and using "y'all" every
other word while they're doing it. Gotta love the South baby!
We had an amazing week! On
Sunday, I had a really cool experience I’d like to share with you. I decided to
fast to find a new investigator who Elder Flake and I could start teaching,
because we really needed one and we have been struggling to find them all week
long. So, I fasted for it and all during church I just felt like it was going
to happen. After church Elder Flake and I were driving home to do our weekly
planning before going to an appointment, and I don't know why but I felt
prompted to look at him and say, "Dude, forget the planning I feel like we
need to go follow up with some people right now." He didn't argue, so we
stopped by this neighborhood right by the church where we had tracted a few days
earlier. While there, we met a lady named Robin Massey, and at the time we were
talking to her she didn't seem very interested. She was nice and everything but
didn't seem like she wanted to hear more. She didn't give us her number, but
said we could stop by sometime on the weekend if we wanted. We decided to
follow up with her, and while we were walking up the driveway I thought to
myself, "I can't believe we're even going back to this lady's house."
We knocked on the door and her boyfriend, Justin, who she's been with for
twelve years answered the door. We had barely finished introducing ourselves
when he said, "You guys wanna come in?" So we walked inside and
started talking to him. He told us that
he was in the army and that he and Robin hadn't been to church in awhile and that
it was really starting to have an effect on them. Like I mentioned, he said
they had been together for twelve years and they have a nine-year old daughter
together. At the time we were talking to Justin, Robin wasn't there but after
about fifteen minutes she walked in and said, "Hey! I was just thinking
about you guys. I was telling my husband how amazing you were." Elder
Flake and I looked at each other and we were thinking, “Where was this enthusiasm
three days ago?” We started talking to them about the gospel and the Book of
Mormon, and without even asking them, Justin said, "Ya, we'll be at your
church next week. We have no excuse not to be there." We were thrilled. Ya,
baby!! It was a really cool experience. It showed me that God will answer our
prayers as long as we're willing to go out and work for them ourselves.
This week I also found out that
someone I baptized in Hickory Flat was able to receive the priesthood and
baptize his wife a couple weeks ago! They wrote me a letter and told me they
planned on getting sealed for all time and eternity in the temple a year from
now! The happiness of the gospel is real!
Happy Cinco de
Mayo everyone! Go eat a burrito or something.
Love you all! Thank
you for your endless support,
Elder Roddy
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