For the week I missed, the craziest parts were that we had a few of our friends tell us they want to get baptized, but they're just not quite ready yet. So we just gotta keep working with them! We had a CRAZY 3 and a half hour meeting with 7 Baptist pastors. They were very disrespectful but we stayed calm and shared our beliefs and testified of Jesus Christ. I think they were very mad that every time they attacked us, two 19 year old boys stayed calm, brought the spirit and testified using the scriptures and personal experiences. They were very angry that they couldn't "beat" us haha, but it's because we weren't trying to "beat them" we were just testifying of what we know to be true. Even though they had a lot of outlandish claims about our church and our beliefs differed. The spirit was not there as they were attacking and talking, and it was a huge testimony builder for me that our church is true, and that's all that matters haha.
We went to a restaurant in Amarillo called The Big Texan. So sick. It was delicious and it was built as an old fashioned Western Tavern thing. Super cool.
So on Tuesday we had exchanges and I was with Elder Allen in Dumas. He's from Kaysville so that's fun. We had a lesson with Elisabeth and Daniel that night and they told us they've been reading the book of mormon! They said they wanted to learn more but we didn't have time. They said they feel so good when we read the Book of mormon so im excited for them!
On Wednesday we woke up and it was -18 degrees outside and a good foot of snow. It was FREEZING. Our house doesn't stay warm either so our house was in the 50s. And we couldn't go and exchange back because of the snow we ended up doing a 48 hour exchange haha. We made a lot of contacts and had a lesson with an inactive member and his non member girlfriend, and she said she wants to be baptized! But her mom is some type of pastor so she kind of wants to be baptized by her. But then she said she would read the Book of mormon so we'll see.
On Thursday it was still FREEZING and snowing but we had to drive down haha. So we drove all the way down and exchanged and came back up and it took most of our day haha.
On Friday we had to set up for a funeral and we visited a member who takes care of his parents with dementia. He looks the scientist on back to the future and lives in a bomb shelter. Like a literal one four stories in the ground. Way cool. We had a way cool talk about finding peace in christ and he's very faithful but can't leave his parents alone to come to church.
Saturday wasn't too crazy but on Sunday we finally got two people to church! It was our friends Elisabeth and Daniel! We had to translate for them (we translate every week) and they loved it! It was such a spiritual testimony meeting, everyone just bore their testimony on Jesus Christ. Everyone kept it so simple, and it was so perfect. Pretty much everyone was in tears. They loved it! And also our friend Nydia texted us and she read the chapter we gave her and that she loved it!
Love yall!
Love, Elder Ryan
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