Obey God Rather Than Man

Georgia can be hilly!

Buenos!

Well, we had a fairly good week here in Dalton. This week we did a LOT of tracting, and we were able to find a few new people to teach. This week, we found this awesome couple, M and J. We had a solid Restoration lesson with them, and we are actually going back tonight to have dinner with them, so that should be fun! We also have a new progressing investigator, H. He really enjoys the Book of Mormon, and we had a pretty good plan of salvation lesson with him this week. He wasn't able to come to church this week, but he will probably be at church this week. We weren't able to see F or A this week, but we were able to have some members out with is to see our other investigators. This week we had a good Plan of Salvation lesson with D and O, and J came with us. He is getting ready to go on his mission, and he is absolutely solid. He will be a great missionary, and he was a great help to us. Also this week, we finally met with A! We taught him the last couple things he needed to know, but he's basically a member already, he just kind of taught us. The only thing is, he wants to wait until he goes back to Florida to get baptized. He'll be in Dalton for about 3 months doing a temporary job, and then he might get another job in Iowa before heading back home to Sarasota. So, we'll just continue to teach him, but he is already super solid.

Wednesday was a busy day this week. We drove up to Chattanooga for interviews with President Griffin, which were great. He was able to teach me a lot, especially about the spirit, in just the short time we had. It was pretty cool. After interviews, we had district meeting, and then after district lunch, we had exchanges with the Chatt Valley elders. Elder J went back to Dalton with Elder H, and I went with our DL, Elder P in his area. It was a good exchange, we did a little finding around Ft. Oglethorpe, and then we had ward council in the evening. It was pretty good. Then we switched back the next day.

Sunday was pretty good too. For starters, we were doing a mission-wide fast, and it was great, I think it really brought us in tune with the spirit. We had A at church again, and it was super cool because we had a really powerful testimony meeting. One of the members in the ward passed away this week, and he kind of died young. But, yesterday there were so many testimonies on the priesthood, eternal families, and the sealing power. The spirit was just so strong during that meeting, it was incredible. So yeah, those are the highlights of the week.

My ponderizer this week is Acts 5:29 which says, "Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men." We have the commandments, we have our gospel standards. The world would try to convince us to violate those standards to fit in with everyone else. But, as the scripture says, it is better to obey God rather than man. Well, I hope y’all have a great week!

Love,
Elder Mitchell

Out with J, who is getting ready for his mission

Not sure why Elder J is chewing on grass?