This
week was a crazy week! A few of our investigators decided they didn't want to
listen to us anymore so all we really have close to baptism is Rabecca who will
be baptized this Saturday. After that we have nobody too close to baptism so we
decided we really needed to focus on finding this week. We do most of our
finding through meeting with Less-Actives who have non-member family members or
also through the people who have been
taught before that we check up on. We found a few people but we will see this
week how solid they are.
Last Monday we went to another elders apartment in our district. We talked Elder Breeden into letting us give him a haircut and style his hair because all of his life he has never used gel or anything or ever even styled his hair so he's decided to give it a try. Anyway we got out the clippers and the razor and gave him a pretty good trimming. Elder Breeden was kneeling down on the grass while I was styling his hair and the 2 other elders we were with were trimming up the sides. We made Elder Breeden close his eyes too so he wouldn't see anything we were doing. It turned out way good to be honest! I think I might become a barber when I get home haha.
Another funny story from this week: apparently the 20th of April is some day that everyone celebrates smoking weed. I haven't heard of it until I came here. Anyways, we went to this less actives house at like 8:00 at night and him and his buddy were in his foyer (we call it his weed room). They were high as a kite! It was terrible!! They both were wearing bright green shirts and socks and hats that had weed decals all over them. We are pretty close with this less active so we got after him for it. The next day we went to check up on a potential investigator we have been trying to teach, when we got there he wasn't there but his nephew was. We taught him and it was a great lesson right up until the end when this potential investigator pulled up in his car (actually his friend was driving and he was in the passenger seat). The nephew was like, "You guys gotta leave because if he comes over here and starts talking you guys, you'll never get out of here because he doesn't stop talking when he's drunk." We didn't get out of there in time and this potential investigator got out of the car and was like, "heyyyyyyyyyy wuzzup my friends?" He then told us how he was high on some no bueno stuff. We just walked away and said we will come back another day when you're sober. It was a pretty crazy couple of days! Satan really does have a strong hold on the world and he definitely is out there.
So I receive some exciting news this week! We had interviews with President Berry and guess what he told me.... I'm going to be training next transfer! I'm so stoked! It's going to be sweet! In missionary terms that means that I'm going to be a dad. The transfer ends on the 10th. I can't wait!
Last Monday we went to another elders apartment in our district. We talked Elder Breeden into letting us give him a haircut and style his hair because all of his life he has never used gel or anything or ever even styled his hair so he's decided to give it a try. Anyway we got out the clippers and the razor and gave him a pretty good trimming. Elder Breeden was kneeling down on the grass while I was styling his hair and the 2 other elders we were with were trimming up the sides. We made Elder Breeden close his eyes too so he wouldn't see anything we were doing. It turned out way good to be honest! I think I might become a barber when I get home haha.
Another funny story from this week: apparently the 20th of April is some day that everyone celebrates smoking weed. I haven't heard of it until I came here. Anyways, we went to this less actives house at like 8:00 at night and him and his buddy were in his foyer (we call it his weed room). They were high as a kite! It was terrible!! They both were wearing bright green shirts and socks and hats that had weed decals all over them. We are pretty close with this less active so we got after him for it. The next day we went to check up on a potential investigator we have been trying to teach, when we got there he wasn't there but his nephew was. We taught him and it was a great lesson right up until the end when this potential investigator pulled up in his car (actually his friend was driving and he was in the passenger seat). The nephew was like, "You guys gotta leave because if he comes over here and starts talking you guys, you'll never get out of here because he doesn't stop talking when he's drunk." We didn't get out of there in time and this potential investigator got out of the car and was like, "heyyyyyyyyyy wuzzup my friends?" He then told us how he was high on some no bueno stuff. We just walked away and said we will come back another day when you're sober. It was a pretty crazy couple of days! Satan really does have a strong hold on the world and he definitely is out there.
So I receive some exciting news this week! We had interviews with President Berry and guess what he told me.... I'm going to be training next transfer! I'm so stoked! It's going to be sweet! In missionary terms that means that I'm going to be a dad. The transfer ends on the 10th. I can't wait!
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| Elder Hilton!!! I mean Daniel haha |
On Thursday I was able to see an old friend. Guess who it was! Elder Hilton!
...I mean Daniel. He was "Dad" (my trainer) who finished his mission
in December but came back to visit. We were able to meet up and actually go
teach a lesson. Some background on this first, Elder Hilton served in Minneola
which is the ward right next to ours that shares the same building. It's
cool how God knows us so well because
the person we were going to teach has been investigating for a super long time,
and he was actually first contacted by Elder Hilton while he was serving in
Minneola! We showed up for the lesson and it was
like they were already friends. I know that God watches out for us and has a
purpose for everything.
This wasn't the only tender mercy that the Lord showed us this week. Like I said earlier we have been trying really hard to find people to teach. We were suppose to have a lesson with a less active but when we got there, he met us out front and told us he had lost his house key and was headed back to find it. We decided to go help. When we got to the store he had been at, we met an older couple who had found his keys. They gave them to him and we started to walk off when I felt something almost commanding me to turn around and go talk to them. As a missionary when you get that feeling you learn to not even hesitate. So I turned around and before I could even get a word out to speak to them, the wife was like, "Did y'all know that I used to be a member of your church?" We were like "What!?! Were you baptized?" They said no but that they were even married in our church building and used to meet with missionaries all the time until they moved. So now we are going to be teaching them. It's cool how God has a purpose for everything!
We also received some bad news last night. Nelson's surgery did not end well and he is now in a better place. It's really hard to see him leave but it is also very humbling to know that the Lord knows us personally enough to guide us through every situation. We didn't know last week that this was going to happen but we did know through the spirit that it was urgent that Nelson was baptized so we listened and now we understand why it was so urgent. God really does love each of his children. What a tender mercy to have been part of this.
Love you all and remember God has a purpose for everything. My favorite scripture says, "Trust in the Lord God with all thine heart. Lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths." - Proverbs 3:5-6
Elder Goff
