Hello All!
Greetings from the Frozen land of Orillia! It was -16 all day yesterday. That's a bit on the cold side. But we braved it anyway, and got to work. We had a good week. We didn't get bombed quite as much this week. We had appointments that went through (which I was very grateful for), and we were blessed by the Lord to receive two new investigators. The first is Mike Calligaris. We tracted his house about a month ago, but with the holidays and the weather (He is a snow-plow driver) we had not been able to meet with him since. We met with him on Wednesday night. He originally told us that his son, Taylor (6yrs old) had been asking some questions that he could not answer, so he invited us to come back. I think his intention originally was to have Taylor ask us questions and us give the answers. That is how the lesson started. it developed, though, in to a great first lesson. We got into answering questions and then Mike asked, "So what do you usually share when you visit with someone?" We explained that the questions that Taylor was asking were very common questions that a lot of people had (Questions of the Soul - Where did I come from? What happens after we die? etc.). We continued on that theme and tied it in to a first lesson. It was great. We left them with the Book of Mormon and they committed to read and pray about it. We met with them again on Friday. We gave them a chapel tour with the Witlox family. We were talking to him after and he told us that he would be at church. We were very excited for that, but it snowed pretty hard Sunday morning and he had to go plow snow and couldn't make it. We stopped by and set up another appointment with him for Friday evening.
The other New investigator is Kim, the girlfriend/wife/fiancé (We are not quite sure yet) of Justinn Coombs, a less active member. We stopped by and met with them. Justinn had been talking about how he wants to start coming back to church. Kim likes the doctrine and pushes him to go to church. It is great. They have a 3 month old son, Deacon, and Justinn told us that that has opened his eyes. He wants to raise his son right. We taught through the Plan of Salvation, and they were going to come to church, but Deacon got a rash and they took him in to the hospital Sunday morning. We stopped by and checked with them last night, and they are doing fine. They got it taken care of. We are meeting with them on Friday also.
We have also done some work with some of the less actives in the branch. There are a few who receive us and will visit with us regularly. Andrew Johnston, Liz Schell, and Cheryl Atkinson are the three that we have worked with the most. We have been reading from the Book of Mormon with them and trying to get them back into the habit of doing so. We hope to start practice teaching them as well. That would help us improve and help them as well to bolster their testimonies.
So yeah..... I was excited about the last week. It went well. Hopefully we will be able to keep our momentum. But anyway....I love you and miss you all! Have a great week! Keep on Keeping on!
Your Obedient Servant,
Elder Austin James Ashcraft
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