Good Morning Family!
Soooo ya, poor Elder Guthrie. Right now we are just sitting inside doing nothing. Thankfully we both have Gospel Library on our iPads, so we will probably be doing a ton of studying.
Anyways though, we had a pretty cool experience the other day that I forgot to mention. So we had this investigator that we were really excited to teach, like Extremely Excited! She is apparently the second counselor's niece and asked him how she could get in contact with us and be baptized! Really awesome stuff! So of course we set up a lesson and prepared for it. Eventually Saturday did come, and we headed over to our lesson. Unfortunately.... it didn't go exactly as we had hoped. Apparently, she had some huge concerns that she had failed to mention and used this opportunity to basically tell us that we were going to hell, that our church hates families, and that we were all devil worshipers, and so forth. Basically this went on for about an hour before I finally just raised my hand to talk, then offered a prayer, bore my testimony, then said that we had to go. As Bro Bryant (our second counselor) walked us out of his house, he told us right before we reached our car that that had been a test! He knew that she might express some concerns (though not quite with the ferocity or extremeness that it happened though) and wanted to see how we would react and handle the situation. He told us that we passed with flying colors and that he had a few referrals for us! It was a crazy experience.
Anyways...ya, it's been a crazy week.
So, let's see, I'm going through your email right now... Sorry for the lack of stories, I'm pretty bad at that, even looking through my journal it's fairly lacking in stories, I'll try to include more. :)
Do I get many opportunities to sing? Thankfully we sing a hymn every morning to start off companionship study, but really that's it. Elder Guthrie doesn't really like to sing so we don't :/
My favorite members are probably either Elder Guthrie's family or the Smyths. The Smyths live in uptown and are just the most hilarious new family ever! They have two young kids and make the best food!
Other interactions with church members? Not really much. :/ The occasional service project for some but that's rare. The members here are a little more scared than most to get involved, so we don't get to interact too much. We try but they usually refuse.
Well, I'm out of paper :) Love you guys! I love this work and you all!
Never Give up, Never Surrender!
-Elder Berrett
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