On Tuesday I went on an exchange with Elder Isaacson. It was awesome! He is such a great missionary. We found 4 new investigators in one day which is pretty stellar! Haha a funny story about the exchange though. We were parked at a stoplight on our way to an appointment when Elder Isaacson looks over and sees a tortoise in the median. For some crazy reason, this tortoise decided that it needed to cross the 3 lanes to get to the other side. The grass must have been greener over there or something haha. So he starts his way across and gets almost through the first lane when the light turns green for the cars on that side to go but ours stayed red! We started yelling cheering this little guy on! He would walk a little bit then a car would drive over top of him and he would duck in his shell. He kept getting super lucky. Pretty sure this was one of the most suspenseful and intense moments of my life! About 5 cars passed over top of him without hitting him when all of a sudden he decided he needed to make a break for the other side (which he still had 2 lanes of heavy traffic to get through) we were jumping all over anticipating it to get hit any second! ....and it did :( all of a sudden the tortoise blew up as a car hit him! At that exact moment our light turned green. It was a little bit of a heart breaker. Intense though haha. Lesson learned: The adversary tempts us by showing us how great and harmless something looks when really he is just leading us into danger.
On a more happy note, we have a pet kitten living under our deck! We found him last Monday and couldn't find out whose it was so we just left him with some tuna and now we have a pet kitten living under our deck. I haven't heard him meowing in the last couple days though so maybe he moved but we leave tuna out and it always disappears. We named him Shearcon (Elder Breeden came up with it). We are moving out of this creepy old house in a few days and getting a new apartment so we'll have to leave him behind :)
Well we saw a lot of miracles this week! I went on exchanges with Elder Crismon, our Zone Leader, this week. We saw an awesome miracle from that. We had a planned lesson that fell through so Elder Crismon decided to go visit a member who he didn't know that was on the records. When we got there, the lady opened the door and was speechless. After an awkward silence she finally said, "Come on in. I know that God sent you guys because my husband is having surged in 2 hours and needs a blessing." She had cold chills as we walked in. The spirit was so Strong! I know that God sent us there because it was a random idea that turned out to be a heaven sent miracle. We gave him a blessing and were able to teach him a lesson. He is not a member of the church either so hopefully they will be able to teach him. It's tender Mercies like that, that make you realize there is no way there couldn't be a God.
Also this Friday as we were doing some planning, we got a call saying that Jessica and Natalie (Natalie is suppose to get baptized on the 4th of June) were moving this coming Monday to Kentucky. They said they couldn't pay for their bills and were basically forced to move. She wouldn't be able to come to church Sunday if they moved. Also we are teaching a man named Mike who was suppose to come to church but just wouldn't respond to any of our texts. It was looking like we weren't going to have anyone attend church this week. We were both confused because we had prayed super hard for help with that all week. We knelt down and said another prayer asking for some help. The following day which was Saturday, Jessica texted us saying she would be able to stay until the end of June and that they got things all worked out! That means Natalie will still be baptized on the 4th! As well, Mike also texted us saying that he and his wife were coming to church this week! They also set up an appointment for us to meet. We ended up having 3 people come to church when it was beginning to look like 0. Never underestimate the power of prayer! #TenderMercie
The main people we are working with right now is Natalie (baptism date June 4th), Aveon (baptism date June 18th but might have to be pushed back a few weeks), Mike and his wife, and the Wilton's. We are also seeing a lot of success with helping Less-Actives around! We had 2 less-active members at church who have been in several years! It made me so happy to see them there!
Well I hope y'all had just as good of a week as mine and I hope this coming week will also be just as great as mine will be here in the promised land of Florida! Love you all!
Elder Goff
There's a random toilet on the top of a doorway in one of the Elder's apartments so I had to climb up on it and take a picture! :)
