September 24, 2019

Hi everyone! This was a good week, more challenging than the past few but that's okay👌🏻 We did a lot of knocking Haha! But we had some really great lessons. We were able to meet with Paul, our neighbor. We had a super spiritual lesson with him. He has such a desire to learn more! It's incredible! We taught him the restoration and he just thought it was the most amazing thing ever. We also had a Book of Mormon referral. His name is Zac and he was just really curious about it. So we dropped by and gave him a copy and he was really excited to start reading it! It was awesome and refreshing to see so many people this week that had that fire and curiosity. That's how everything starts. Before Joseph Smith became the prophet of the restoration, he was just a kid with a question. We also have been trying this thing where we ask a member to pick a street in our map, then we go and knock that street. We did that with sister Kempton and we found a guy named Draven who was curious to learn more. Sister Kempton was so excited that we found someone on the street she chose! We asked her to write her testimony in a copy of the Book of Mormon and then we will take it to him next week. Members are the best! When members get actively involved in missionary work, miracles happen. We have also been visiting the Mullens a lot. Sister Mullen is a member but her husband is not. They are awesome:) They had us over for dinner and made us German food. Oh man it was so good. We have been working with Brother Mullen. He is so funny. He doesn't have an interest in learning more about God, but I know that the Lord is working on him. I felt that a lot this week. That there are lots of people that the Lord is preparing. More than we think. I think I forgot that promise for a while but the Lord reminded me this week that no soul is forgotten to him. Every person is so precious and he is preparing each one. I am excited to see those people come into the flock when their time is right. I really do know that the field is white and that there are people ready right now. I can't wait until we find them. Nothing brings me more joy than seeing people's lives compmetely change as they come unto Christ. It is the most beautiful thing to me. I know that this is his church. I know he leads it. I know he is leading this work too. I am grateful to be in the ranks!:) I love you all!! Love sister Bates