Week 68 Letter

Transfer Day

October 21, 2013

Okay so hopefully I'll be able to come back and write a longer email. My companion just got a call that we have to go and be with a missionary because his companion is getting transferred. 

 

I'm staying, I have a new companion, Elder Gordan. But i'm moving into a homeshare with a different address which I don't have currently... Sorry, it's in my planner which I don't have on me.

 

Sad story. One of our recent converts, mark. He was super solid and then randomly stopped showing up to church and not answering our phone calls. He decided to go back to his old (born again) church... We bore down in pure testimony in one of the most intense lessons I've ever been in, and told him that us and the prophets in the Book of Mormon would bear witness to him at judgement day that what we say is true. We challenged him to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it. A few days later he called us a few days later and basically just bashed (well it wasn't really a bash because he doesn't know enough to bash) with us. "I opened up the BOM and the first thing I read is that the Book of Mormon is comparable to the bible, nothing is comparable to the bible..." It's super sad.

 

Happy story: Adan and Maribel's baptism went great, they have been really prepared. The day before and the day of their baptism they were having a really rough time but it all panned out. I also had to dunk Maribel twice, I almost cracked her head on the side the first time and she didn't go all the way under. It was a little embarrassing. But she took it well.

 I have pics but I can't send them from this lame computer at the apartment complex, they've locked the tower in so I can't plug in my jump drive and It's probably too slow to send them anyway. 

 

Hopefully I'll be able to write more later, I have some cool stuff to share, and I remembered to bring the girls letters, but b/c of Transfer day crazyness it may not happen...  8(

 

Love you all soo much! 

Elder Bryce Johns