Today was different from normal. President Schmitt's son Clayton was baptized. And we we had an investigator come and see it. Her name is Ella she has been progressing for a very long time about 2 months. She loved it! Her favorite part was the actual ordinance. Before the ordinance Pres. Schmitt taught about the gate to the strait and narrow and how it lead to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. It was really cool how he did it. He had Clayton stand near the front of the chapel alined with the aisle between the pews and he had two missionaries stand at the opposite end of the aisle. He said that Clayton was standing at the gate to the straight and narrow path and the two missionaries were Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. Pres. Schmitt then told Clayton that the gate symbolized baptism. told Clayton to walk down the aisle and said that as he Then after the ordinance the APs taught the restoration to everyone in attendance. Then we had root beer floats and Pres. and Sis. Schmitt met Ella and want to go to her Baptism! It was awesome!
September 3, 2015
We started out today by meeting with Celeste, an investigator who has not been keeping the Commitments that will ring her closer to God. She was not willing to progress towards Him. We had what is known to Missionaries as a 'drop' lesson. A drop Lesson is when you tell an investigator who is not progressing that you will be meeting with them less often until they have that desire to progress towards our Heavenly Father once again. It gives the Investigator time and space to think about what they learned and reflect upon it.After we met with Celeste we read the BoM with a 91 year old lady in our ward named Mary just as we do every Thursday afternoon. It was fun but I honestly had a hard time keeping my eyes open when I wasn't reading. 😅 We all make mistakes right.😄
After we read with Mary we ran an errand for an investigator who is more or less home bound just in time for her to cancel on us. So we finalized plans for the coming week until our ward mission leader pick us up for dinner at his home.
We had nachos and they were pretty good! After nachos and some get to know ya we headed over to have a lesson with Ella with our ward mission leader.
It was a great time.
September 2, 2015
Today was a very busy day. We had scheduled appointments from 12:30- 7pm. We started out with teaching Brian and Bridgette but Bridgette was busy with her daughter the whole time so we didn't really teach her. When we teach Brian without Bridgette the conversation can get very off topic very quickly. So next time our goal is to have Bridgette with us so she can bring in the conversation when it goes too off topic.
After Brian and Bridgette's we went over to Ani's. She is such a genuine good soul. Her intentions are so pure and godly. She is going though some rough times and really needs to rely on God and Jesus Christ so she can push through. We gave her some homework to help her understand the Atonement better from the Plan of Salvation pamphlet. As soon as she learns of the power of the Atonement she will have so much more freedom.
After a I we had dinner at the Dickson's. We had steak! Delicious! We had a great conversation about the Book of Mormon and how wonderful it really is and as we progress it become a completely different kind of wonderful.
After a wonderful time at the Dickson's. We decided to try a recent convert that we couldn't get a hold of earlier that day, Beth Daniels. We had a good meeting and answered a good bunch questions and helped her a little further down the path of righteousness.
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