Moments from a Missionary

Saturday was by far the busiest day with the promised 10,000+ People attending...the Glk. family was nice enough to buy us dinner who doesn't love some good fair food. ​The Glk family also shared our table with us for dinner and played the game. So one thing over the week with so many visitors from around the country for the Greenbriar Classic and around the State for the Alderson 4th of July Celebration, there was also a lot of members from other wards etc. that knew us as missionaries it was neat to be picked out and people wanting to take photos with us and just happy to see us and all..it shows how much the church really is growing...#TheMormonsAreEverywhere This is T. the awesome new investiagor we met at the last moment before we packed up at the Alderson 4th.  A Ton of people...we didn't stay for the fireworks but I was told they were spectacular, the whole event is r...

Dearest All We have been working hard this week to reach and teach the impressive load of new investigators from the Ronceverete River Festival this past week. I am over joyed to report that 5 of those investigators have turned into progressing or will shortly be progressing. I cannot talk about each but these are some I must mention. The Gn Family - Family with six children their third oldest son met us at the festival and invited us to his home to teach him, on our second visit with him (which was unscheduled and following a prompting of the spirit in doing so) To discover his entire family home and his dad was immediately interested in what we had to say, we read a chapter from the Book of Mormon with them and followed it up with a simple and precise restoration lesson, they are between churches, have met with missionaries before and are EXCITED to learn about the Plan of Salvation tonight and you know president we were excited in teaching and we let them see that we are excited ju...

Dearest All, well how grand a week...with 10 new investigators...which is simply incredible! Which will give us plenty to do while the G.'s are on vacation for a week! I have so many photos so I am going to let them tell the story...enjoy ​H.G. was excited when the L.s loaned her four great and entertaining LDS films for them to take on their week long vacation at smith mountain lake in VA We taught M.H. and his sons "The Gospel of Jesus Christ" with chalk again, we have found this to be a really great way to keep younger investigators engaged in the lesson and it helps them to retain it. ​I also had Elder Thompson come with me on an exchange here in Lewisburg and we finished putting the details on our Mormon Game show...for the Roncevete River Festival...which was a huge Success! ​Our Booth location...all set up  on Friday ...this was a  Friday - Sunday  event... Thursday  was spent a lot of pl...