April 24th - Looking for the former investigator

Well it's good to hear that Nana is alive and not dead. That tumor thing looked gross. What a miracle!

 I'm emailing today because yesterday we had a brown-out/no electricity from 6 AM to 10 PM yesterday. 

On sunday we had 3 investigators come to church. One of them came for the first time and we'll be following up on her more later tonight. She has a great potential to be baptized. The other girl that came should be baptized for sure on the 14th. There was also a long time inactive old man that came to church. He used to be a counselor in the bishopric here. Our lessons with him are always a question and answer session about how many spirits did God create, why satan exists, why are there 3 degrees of glory, what life is like in the highest kingdom, what it looks like, why Thomas S Monson a true prophet cause the Lord said to beware of false prophets, and just questions like that. He still wears his garments though so he's still a believer.

This past week we were looking for a former investigator. We asked a member that knew them where they lived and so we followed the direction. We actually asked the member about this family 2 or 3 weeks ago but we never went to look for him. So this past week we decided we were for sure about it. So we follow the directions and we find a guy with the same last name but with a different first name. Turns out he really was a former investigator but not the one we were looking for. We tracted his home before but his wife was the only one there. The night before we found him, he and his wife got into an argument and so he drank to get his mind off of things. He then told us that that same night he prayed to God asking for a sign and something or someone to change his life. Next thing you know we are right there at his home. It would've been picture perfect but he still isn't sure about baptism, unmarried with 10 kids, and doesn't show much of a desire to change.

Later that afternoon we actually found the former investigators we were first looking for and they are a great little family. They are truth seekers and want to prepare for baptism. Church attendance is the only problem due to work. 

Other than that we're still excited for this transfer because we feel a baptism coming up soon. Hopefully more than one. 

Love,

Elder Brown