I’m not sure how many people
still read these, I try and keep them interesting, but sometimes the
mission letters seem to be a little dry. But trust me, I’m doing my best
to make things interesting, you never know what Elder LeBaron is
getting himself into next, trying to keep ,self unpredictable you know?
This
week flew by! Holy cow, it seems like time is just flying right now,
even though things have been pretty slow around here. Me and Elder
Collings have been continuing the crazy amounts of teaching that we’ve
been doing. It’s actually pretty cool, we picked up a guy this week
named Marlon, he was looking pretty scary to be honest when we first saw
him. There weren’t any street lights where we were. Marlon is this
black guy from Alabama, he was sagging his pants super low with his hood
up, it was just super sketchy, but me and Elder Collings have made a
goal to talk to every person that we see. We pulled up to him on our
bikes and and offered him a pamphlet, after a few minutes he opened up
and he literally talked our ear off. We picked him up on Friday, taught
him again on Saturday, we invited him to church, and so we saw him on
Sunday again. He stayed all three hours, and then one of the high
councilors asked him if he wanted to go to a fireside with Brad Wilcox.
Marlon looked at us and just said, “well I might as well dedicate the
rest of the day to the right?” And so he did. The fireside was out of
our mission, but we called our president and got permission to go. It
was so cool! Brad Wilcox is such a good speaker, I think that we were
the only missionaries there. There were some topics that came up such as
blacks and the Priesthood... me and Elder Collings winced a little when
Brad started talking about that. He was pretty bold when talking about
how this was the only true church , he made other churches seem so dumb
for some of their beliefs. I was pretty scared that Marlon was going to
stand up and walk out, we don’t know too much about his background. He
ended really liking the talk and said “the spirit really confirmed some
things to me” me and Collings just looked at each other like who is this
guy? We have another lesson with him on Tuesday it seems like we might
set another baptismal date soon for the month of October, good things to
come!
We picked up a few other people that
seem promising. I’ve just been amazed at how our efforts have taken us
so far. I’m not expecting to double our baptism, or for angels to come
down, but I’m starting to see the little miracles God preforms for you
when you are trying your best. We’ve been trying to meet goals, and set
plans. I’m pretty excited to see what we can accomplish, we just gotta
keep it up. Anyways I hope all of you have a good week!
As always, keep on keeping on,
Elder LeBaron
614 West Foothill Blvd, Arcadia, CA
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