This week was super cool! We went down to Bentonville for a missionary meeting and it was quite a good experience. I learned a lot about motivation and general missionary skills.
We have been knocking on a lot of doors outside of the city, it's always interesting to see the people who live out in the boonies. Also sometimes very effective, not a lot of the outlying cities get tracted.
We met some really open people!! One guy just moved into this town of approximately 481 people, with his wife and small baby. He has gone to church at different denominations, but it never seemed like home to him. He has since been looking for a church that will feel like family to him. We were able to talk about how families are super important to us and explain a bit about what we do as missionaries.
We tracted into a lady in that same town, she looked pretty rough around the edges, but as we talked to her, she explained to us that it's her daughter's birthday, and she had just ran away with a boy. We could tell that she was experiencing a lot of internal struggle and pain, and so we shared Alma 7:11-13 with her, about what Christ has done for each of us. I think it consoled her, and she accepted a copy of the Book of Mormon.
I know that the Lord has a plan for each one of us, and as we try to follow what He wants for us, we will be blessed.
In that same town, we also talked with a drunk man, as we were walking down the street late at night, on Saturday. We saw something stop at the intersection that we were walking away from. (Most of the people in this town use golf carts or side-by-sides to travel in the city.) He called out to us, and so we walked over to him. You could smell the alcohol on him, and it was hilarious to talk with him. He gave us some very nice remarks about how sharply we were dressed, told us that he's not going to quit smoking or drinking (we didn't say anything to prompt that response), and that he's more in tune with God than most preachers "round these parts." He offered us a ride home on his golf cart (which had a large supply of alcohol on the seats, which would have prevented the three of us to sit on the cart), I kindly declined, and gave him a pictures of Jesus with an invitation to order a free Bible on the back. He loved it so much that he said he would put it on the window of the local Barbecue joint, (he worked for the owner). It is so much fun to talk to everyone you see:) haha
Well, there are lots of pictures, so I'll shut up.
I love y'all!!!
