3 months in...

Things here have been going quite well since last wednesday. The big news on saturday was transfers calls. I'm getting transferd and thats about all that i know. I leave at 1045 on wednesday morning which leaves me basically a full day to travel wherever i am going. Chances are i wont go to Grants pass or Klamath falls because they normally leave on Tuesday night. But.... Who Knows?

On thursday we had an awesome day. We spent about 1 or 2 hours tracting and found 2 new investigators. One of the doors we knocked on had tons of pictures of christ and crosses all over the door. Even one LDS one from one of the pamphlets we prosylyte with (the restoration one with the picture of Christ holding a lamb, by Greg Olson). Anyways, The guy who opened the door was wearing at least 6 crosses around his neck and cross earings. We knew it was going to be interesting. He first asked " are you guys mormons" we replied yes and he promptly invited us in. We began trying to teach him but all he wanted to do was bash for about 20 minutes or a half hour. It was really frustrating but we both kept our cool and just sat and listend. He then told us some CRAZY anti mormon stuff. I wanted to get up and punch the man named paul. Well when he was done we i began telling him a bit what we believed about the book of mormon and a few seconds into it he began bashing again. We showed him John 10:16 about "other sheep" and we told him that we knew that the book of mormon was a record of some of the other sheep.
He was really mad and tried calling his pastor to battle it. luckily the lord had a hand in it and he didnt answer the phone. We then told us that he "was warm and cold and had goosebumps" ... we showed him the scripture about the fruits of the spirit. He then believed what we had might be true...

We began teaching him about the restoration and we were able to answer all the bashing questions he had with scriptures out of the bible. (his bible). The spirit was very strong when we taught and he felt it as well. i think it was stronger than i ever have before. He began apologizing and really felt bad that he was so anti. We set up a return appointment and we went again on saturday. The other one was a really good lesson and he now has a decently strong testimony. All because of the spirit.

Well from that story you can see that i am somewhat sad to go but i'm excited to get to a new area withe a new companion and have some new people to work with. I dont know how the spanish thing'll work out but i found out i know more than i thought. Tracting the other day i was able to use a little bit and was able to bear a simple broken testimony and set up a return appointmet with the spanish missionarys. It was really cool.