One Year Down

Another Mitchell Street!

Buenos!

This week was pretty great. On Friday, I hit my year mark!! Yeah, kind of crazy. I can't believe how time just absolutely flies on a mission! To think that one year ago, I was going into the Mexico MTC is just crazy. Well, we didn't do much to celebrate, just put in a solid day of missionary work. But, I did burn a shirt, so that was fun. We had a pretty good week this week; we were able to teach a good number of lessons. We were also able to focus on a lot of less actives this week, so that was good too.

Tuesday was one of the best days this week. First off, it was 102 degrees outside...yeet. Plus, we didn't have a whole lot of people to see that day, so went spent about 4 hours tracting in the Georgia heat. But, despite the adversity, we saw some awesome blessings. The biggest one of those was Alberto. We tracted into A on my first day here, and he let us in, we taught him the restoration, and he committed to read the intro to the Book of Mormon. Well, when we came back and saw him, he had read the pamphlet we left him, the intro, the beginning testimonies, and the first FOURTEEN chapters of 1st Nephi...what?!?! It's hard enough to get people to read anything from the Book of Mormon, let alone the first 14 chapters. We asked how he felt about what he was reading, and he said "Well, I feel good, all the word of God is good." So, we asked if he thought that it was a book from God and he said, "Mmm, yeah!" Seriously, it was so cool; we can't wait to keep working with him! Also on Tuesday night, we went to go see a returning member, Hermano G, and ended up doing a little service. He was setting up a little roof area over his back porch, so we helped him put up the boards for that. It was fun.

Sunday was pretty good too this week. We were able to meet with D and O a couple times this week, and then they came to church! Also at church, we had A, our referral from Florida! We haven't been able to meet with him yet because he's been so busy, but we are hoping to meet with him this week and set up some things for his baptism. After church, we met a new investigator, I. We taught him a pretty solid restoration lesson, and when we were talking about the spirit, he was like, "Yeah, I think I felt that when y’all came in, you guys just have this vibe about you." It was pretty cool, and it strengthened my testimony that as missionaries, we represent the Lord, and we have a light about us that others can see and feel, even if we don't always recognize that ourselves.

My ponderizer this week is John 13:17 which says, "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them." We've been blessed with a knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, of the commandments, of the plan of salvation. If we will follow that gospel plan, we will be happy, it's just that easy. Hope y’all have a great week!

Love,
Elder Mitchell

Burning the shirt on his one year mark!

Helping Hermano G with the roof on his porch