I had a
really busy week! Elder Hatch and I have
been working hard! I am a little sore
from Saturday because we did service all day. For some reason I guess when a service project
comes up in Nashville it gets put on the Elders Quorum, which is basically the
missionaries and two other people. Needless
to say that puts a lot more on the missionaries. So this lady in ward needed help moving into
her new house. After about 5 hours, and
a lot of heavy lifting, we finally got it all moved. So I was really tired at this point, but I
guess somehow we got volunteered to help put in another members mail box. So an hour later we finally got
finished. We barely got home right before some severe thunderstorms came
through. Severe was the right word,
because there would be a lightning strike at least every five seconds.
Our
investigator is doing better and came to church yesterday. We did have an awesome miracle happen this
week too! There is a recent convert and
she has a daughter. We have
been trying to see the daughter ever since I came into this area because this Sister
really desires that her family to be sealed in the temple one day. One evening this week we ran out of things to
do. I felt inspired that we should go
stop the daughter’s house. So we stopped
by and the daughter wasn't there, but her boyfriend was there. We
got talking to him and he told us that it was so weird that we showed up right
as we did. He told us that they were
actually talking about coming to our church sometime and he had been
looking up on his phone about our faith. His phone died right before we knocked on the
door. We taught him the first lesson,
and he loved it! We left him with
a Book of Mormon and helped him download the Gospel Library. We stopped by later in the week and he said he
read the Pearl of Great Price, Joseph Smith History, and up to
chapter ten in 1 Nephi!! The best part was that he said that he had
confirmations that he knew it was true!
The next
time we stopped by the daughter was there as well. She said that she has seen what the
gospel has done for her mother in the past year and she wants that glow
that her mother has! It was amazing to
be led by the Spirit to see them at the right time! I know that they will join the church and I
hope to be able to see them baptized! This
week has just been awesome! This Friday
we are having a Zone Conference in Macon with Elder Zwick of the
Seventy, and I have heard he is really good. I hope to be able to get someone on a
baptismal date this week out of all the people we are working
with. We will see. Thank you all
so much!
Love,
Elder Hinrichs
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