Hey Everybody!
The week has been wet. It has now rained for a week and a half straight!
Luckily we only got caught out in it twice. The second time was a doosey
though. It was crazy. We had walked pretty far down this road out in the
country and were pretty far away from the car and didn't think to bring the
umbrellas for some dumb reason. And we could see some very dark clouds in
the distance and it started to do the weird mist/light sprinkle thing it
does here in New England. So we stopped and I prayed that we could have a
breeze or something to move the storm around us so that we could talk to
those and finish what we needed to do on that road at that time. And no
kidding pretty much right after that a pretty good breeze came up from
behind us and the sprinkling stopped! So we kept working and the clouds
started to cirlce around to the left and when we reached the last house we
could see on the road, cuz it was pretty booney, the thunder started to
roll. There was an older gentleman working out side in his yard and we
started to talk to him about the Plan of Salvation cuz he was telling us how
his wife had passed away a couple years previous. He was telling how he
almost just felt like giving up sometimes. By that point the thunder was
pretty crazy and it started to rain. We were hoping that he might invite us
in but he just started heading for the house. We ran across the street and
thought about taking cover under the trees but knew that would only last for
so long. So we started for the car. Then the rain started coming down in
sheets and the wind was coming the opposite direction than it was so it was
on our backs again, and the rain was cold. We tried running with the wind
but it didn't help much, just got mud up our backs. Other than getting
soaked it was amazing! And you could almost feel the thunder. I know that
the last man we talked to on that street is sensitive to the gospel and I
look forward to the time when we can go back and share more whith him.
The car in this area is pretty famous. It's been through all sorts of stuff,
but the best is that it was actually struck by lightening! I always thought
that cars were safe. So last year they had a really bad storm so the Elders
took refuge in someone's home and heard this way loud crack. When they went
back out to the car it was filled with black smoke and every thing inside
was pretty much fried and most the dash was melted. How crazy is that, and
you think they would've totled the car but they fixed it. So we were pretty
happy to see we still had a car when we finally got back to it.
But now I have some very wet shoes so I've had to resort back to the boots,
which it's way too hot for. Hopefully they dry out soon.
Other than the rain the week has been good though. Peter Ballard is getting
baptized next week, which we're pretty excited for. Especailly since he's
been investigating the church off and on for like 10 years now! So that'll
be way cool, and he was meeting with the Jehova Witnesses as well but
decided that he didn't feel comfortable with the things they were teaching
him.
Oh yeah, how could I forget! Yesterday, later in the evening, we were out
tracting on this dirt road out in the boonies and we saw a bear! It was just
walking down the middle of the road, a pretty good size black bear. And it
was mayde 20-30 yards away. I got some pictures before it ran off into the
woods. Elder Williams thought it was going to eat us. It turned and checked
us out for a second then took off. :) How sick is that!
And today we're going to help some less-active members of the ward on their
organic farm. Every other Monday they kill chickens. Elder Williams has
never done anything like that before so he's pretty excited. So we'll see
how that goes.
We also started teaching the lessons to another less-active that we found.
He's pretty awesome, and we're pretty sure that we're going to be able to
help him come back to church. He actually asked us for a reading assignment
at the end of the lesson. That never happens; if only all our investigaors
were like that:)
Well I'm out of time but I hope you all had a good 4th of July. Love Ya!
Love Elder William Campbell :)
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