Today was my first P-Day out in Michigan! Time is moving pretty fast. Tonight I was like drumming with two of these pens that a kid gave me at the MTC and one of them exploded all over my white shirt... so there are brown ink stains all over it, hopefully I can get them out next P-Day with some bleach. It was a short sleeve though so I won't be missing it too much in the Winter and Spring!!
September 30th, 2014
Today we went over to Brenda Ellen's house at 11:00am and we mowed her 8-ACRE LAWN. Yeah SHAN RODGERS 8-ACRES hahaha I'm givin' ya a run for your money. It took 2 hours straight of mowing on this crazy 3-bladed 0 degree turn lawn mower. I felt so accomplished when I finished it. Holy cow. Other than that though, I felt like today was a waste of time. I want to get out into the area and just TALK to people! But we didn't spend our time very wisely today. We got a referral for the Howell Elders (a small city next-door to Brighton) but that's it. I'm ready to start working hard and opening my mouth wherever I go!
October 1st, 2014
Today we went over to Sister Price's and mowed her lawn which was about 2 acres, again, throughout my mission I think I will have mowed more lawns than Shan has in his life! Haha. Then after that we had District meeting at 11:am. Then we made a delicious stir fry dinner with my fantastic Mongo's skills, and went to the church at 7:00pm for correlation with the ward mission leader, church tour for Mark and Susan at 8:00pm, and Roger Bacon's baptism at 8:30pm. Our investigators Mark and Susan came to Roger's baptism and they loved it!! Then guess what... MARK INVITED US TO HIS HOUSE ON SATURDAY TO WATCH THE AFTERNOON SESSION OF CONFERENCE!! Hahaha it was awesome, we are pretty pumped about that. Anyways, we forgot to turn off the water to the font so when the baptism was about to start we had to hurry and turn it off, drain a lot of the water (it was like half and inch from overflowing), and hurry back into the room. All went well though with the baptism, but then Roger forgot a towel, so it took him like 20 minutes to get ready for the confirmation since we had it on the same day due to conference the next sunday. It all worked out, but was pretty stressful at the time. It was an amazing experience though. Mark and Susan felt the Spirit for sure, and they were so happy.
October 2nd, 2014
Today we tracted a bit, not much success though. HAHAHAHA we went to this one apartment and this guy probably in his later 50's answered the door. We told him who we were and he just looks SO PEEVED at us and he says, "Yeah I know who you are." I said, sensing he really didn't want us to be there, "Could we leave a card with..." He interrupts, "I understand when you come around in the day time but it's 8:30 at night. This is MY TIME." He walks back into his apartment and says audibly, "Jack A's!" Haha that was a funny experience. We have like 3 hours of tracting planned for tomorrow, I hope we can be productive and see some success, little or small!
Octobder 3rd, 2014
Today we went tracting for about an hour, and we did that until about 5:00pm because we had an appointment with a lady named Tina and her family. We taught them the Restoration, and left them with a few pamphlets to read in detail and pray about. They said they are looking for a church to go to so that's awesome!! We are going back to their house on the 12th to help them move, and we might be able to teach the Plan of Salvation to them. At night we went to the Wellings and we gave them some cookies, and helped them assemble a huge kitchen table. The Wellings are SO AWESOME!! Hahaha Mom you would love Sister Welling.
October 4th, 2014
Wow, conference was amazing today. We went to Mark's house and watched the afternoon session with him. He told us that he turned on the TV and started to watch the morning session, and couldn't turn it off because it was so good. He told us that he knows that the Apostles are men of God, and that he can feel the truth of what they are saying. It's so awesome!! We hope he watches Sunday too, he said he would!
October 5th, 2014
Today we watched the morning session in the Jone's home, and the evening session in the Aeschbacher's. They both fed us great meals as well. Because of the time change here, conference starts at 12-2, and then from 4-6, and the Priesthood session went way late last night! Today Mark watched conference at his house and this is what he said about it: "I watched both sessions, it sure was a blessing for me to watch those great men speck." After conference (about 6:45pm) we went out tracting down this road that neither of us had seen before or been on. We were going to go to this apartment commplex right next to it but then we decided to just go down this road. Coincidence? Nope. We hit every house and we came up on the last one, and I had this distinct feeling that we weren't going to get bluntly rejected at the doorstep like we were at most all of the other doors. Sure enough, this guy answers the door and invites us in before we really have a chance to say anything. Turns out he is a preacher for the Brighton Christian Church, and he told us that if he ever has people/missionaries come to his door, he invites them in because he respects what they're doing even though he might not believe personally all that they are teaching, he knows that they have faith in their message. So we talked with him for about an hour and a half about certain doctrines of our Church and The Gospel that he had questions about. He was completely respectful and sincerely wanted to know our beliefs, it was way cool! I left a Book of Mormon with him and he said he would read it, skeptically of course, but he said he would read it! Elder Holland and Elder Bednar's talks in conference were my favorites. No surprise because they are my favorite speakers.
I love you all and thank you so much for supporting me! I know through confirmation by the Holy Ghost that The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the only way to obtain true happiness. I'm so glad that I have the opportunity to share it with everyone that I come in contact with here in Michigan. I testify that I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten of the Father, suffered for our sins, and infirmities in the Garden of Gethsamane. That He died on the cross, and overcame death so we could also. I know these things to be true, and I know that anyone who truly wants to know for themselves can find out through the power of prayer as well. I love you all so much. I say this things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
-Elder Goff
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