Wednesday we had a district meeting. I trained on working and improving cooperation with members. I think it went really well. I hope it helps them in some way. Wednesday night we taught an investigator, Bill Kinsella. He's an older man living in a retirement home type thing. I think he might be crazy. Haha! He has a lot of random and crazy ideas and thoughts. We'll keep working with him but I'm not sure how far he'll progress. We'll see. Haha! That night we also so Ali Haught and her family. She is the 9 year old that will be baptized on February 28th. We gave her a "battle plan" the Sunday before. A "battle plan" is something for her to do each day to have spiritual experiences to "battle" Satan's plans to stop her. Most of the days are just short scriptures to read. She is awesome! She has been doing it every day so far! The battle plan goes until her confirmation day. Then she'll have the gift of the Holy Ghost to help her battles!
Thursday I went on exchanges with a missionary in my district, Elder Davis, from the Chapel Hill area. He is way awesome! He is from Draper, Utah. Only a few miles away from my house! Haha! We were in his area. That night we had an amazing dinner! Steak and potatoes... very big steaks! Brother King, who we had dinner with, was the manager of a steakhouse restaurant that close down a few days earlier. When it closed, he took more than $2,000 worth of steaks home with him! The steak I had would have cost someone $35.00! It was very good! He is probably going to become the owner of the place and re-open it. They were a cool family! We had some pretty good teaching appointments while on exchanges. Friday, while we were still on exchanges I had to do 2 baptismal interviews, because I'm the District Leader. Those 2 people were going to be baptized on Saturday. Friday morning as I was pondering over the baptismal interview questions, God really impressed upon me the importance and seriousness of the responsibility put upon me. He put an image and a thought in my mind. I wasn't "carried away by the spirit" or anything. It was more like a daydream image. The impression came across pretty powerfully though. The image was of a beautiful gate in heaven with a sentinel standing before the gate. The impression I got I guess was the interpretation. The gate was the gate that lead into the Kingdom of God, or baptism. The sentinel was the one who would ensure the worthiness and readiness of anyone that wanted to enter into the gate. The sentinel was a man dressed in white. That's the only description I have. The impression told me that for these 2 people, Rachel Sullins and Venus Ordonez, I was the sentinel before the gates of the Kingdom of God. Through the interview I was to ensure their worthiness and readiness for baptism. It was a very humbling and sobering thought, to say the least! It was a small thing but it helped me to see more fully the importance of this work. I'm grateful for it! I did the interviews and they were ready. :) They were both baptized the next day!
Friday night after exchanges we taught Monica Saunders, an investigator, in a member's home. The Capner family is so amazing! They were the ones that referred Monica to us. They live in Mormon Village. Bro Capner is going to Cleveland College with Monica. We taught the Restoration. It went great!
So guess who I went out to lunch with on Saturday! Ok, I know you already know so you don't have to guess... Anna! Ya, that was pretty crazy! Haha! We went to a super nice and fancy Italian Buffet. It's called Cinzetti's and it looks like a castle! Haha! They had really good food there. It was good seeing Anna again. We had a good conversation and just caught up on things. She told me about how Bethany is now officially engaged. Weird! We didn't talk too much about church stuff. I didn't want to preach to her. It was short but we had a good time. My mom also sent some more adderall and some contacts! I'm pretty excited about that!
Saturday was a beautiful day outside so we went and raked the Haught family's backyard. There were a ton of leaves! Haha! We also fixed their fire pit back there. Sunday night we went over and cooked s'mores in their fire pit! That was awesome! Very fun! That morning we came over at 8:30 to get them up and get them to church... and they came! We were very excited! Well, that was pretty much my week.
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