Laurel's Missionary Journey

Hey All! This week has been pretty unexciting, except for two investigators we are really happy for! One of them, Keith, is the man I talked about in my last email that we met on the side of the highway. We had another lesson with him and he has decided to be baptized in December! He even attended the baptism of a little 8 year old girl in the ward here, Autumn Finnell. He actually met Brother Finnell the day before at target, so you never know how the Lord is preparing his children. Another lady we are so excited for is a woman named Diane, who just started coming to church a few weeks ago. She even asked us for a Book of Mormon and scheduled an appointment to meet with us! I cannot stress how little this happens. Her best friend is a member of one of the neighboring wards, but has been coming to church with us because Diane lives in this ward's boundaries. Besides that, things are going well. The Burton girls are excited for their baptism and zone conference is tomorrow, which we...

Hello Everyone!! This past week was so crazy! It was my 6 month mark, which means I am officially 1/3 of the way through my mission. It is so insane how quickly time has flown. We did nothing for my 6 month mark except missionary work, which was exactly how it should be. Bad news, unfortunately we had to stop teaching Austin. He told his family that he was going to be baptized into the church, and they got very upset and told him that as long as they were paying for his school, he would be the religion they picked for him. He told us that he is still going to read the Book of Mormon, and in 2 years when he can start paying for his own school he will be baptized. He still comes up and says hi to us whenever we see him on campus too. On Saturday we did some service for a lady in our ward named Sister Gray. She is incredibly faith-filled, and she converted to the church in the 70s. She was raised very southern baptist, and while we were doing service for her in her lawn she told us about ...

I am running out of ideas for subject lines... sorry folks! Anyway, this week has been wonderful. There have been a lot of miracles that have happened, and even though we had almost no scheduled appointments the entire week, we still got a lot of work done. On Monday we were out talking to people and every person we talked to was not at all interested. We were headed home for the day, feeling a bit dejected and run-down with all the rejection and heartache, and right outside our apartment complex we met a man named Jason who accepted a Book of Mormon and wanted to learn more! We had a lesson with him this morning, and he is so sincere about wanting to come closer to Christ! He told us that he has an aunt that is a Mormon, and he has been going to church after church after church trying to find the right one. Imagine his face as we told him about Joseph Smith's experience! Tuesday was Halloween and we had no appointments or anything because it was a holiday and everyone was busy...