Dear Family and Friends,
Elder Godfrey is my new companion here in my new area of Roseville South! It's the East side of Detroit if any of you wanted to know :) Elder Godfrey is great, I've loved serving with him the past week, very competent and sharp Elder, we're getting to work here in this area! The apartment is nice, but we live in the hood! Hahaha we met these 3 G's in their driveway and they were like "You don't live in da hood?!" We responded "Yeah we do! It's great!" One of them holds out this plastic cup with some concoction of who knows what in it and is like, "Here, take a swig bro!" I'm like "Nahhhh" then another guy pulls out this joint and takes a drag and holds it out to us and is like, "You can't tell me you've never smoked a joint befo!" Hahaha anyways we ended up teaching two of them and they want to improve their lives. They've grown up in the hood and they know that, they were using it as an excuse saying that "You didn't grow up in the hood, we different! Ya'll keep da 10 Commandments an' dat's cool ya know, we try too! But sometimes we've gotta break some of 'em to survive out here!" It's interesting how the adversary blinds peoples' eyes sometimes and tries to get them to think they cannot change how they react to certain situations in their lives.There will be lots of good stories to come! It's an adventure every day, something out of the ordinary always happens.
Met the Bishop here in Roseville on Tuesday and he's got a great vision for missionary work in the ward, I'm excited to be here to assist him with his work. The North Shores Ward actually shares a Chapel with Roseville so I got to see a few families I knew a whole year ago in my mission when I was there in North Shores, that was pretty neat! Cool to see them again.
It's been an interesting week adjusting back to being a Zone Leader! We went on an exchange on Friday down in Belle Isle, the East side of downtown Detroit and we were on bike! But then the other Elder's bike that I was riding broke and so we just walked. Talked to soooo many people on the streets, lots of them drunk or high so we weren't able to teach too many of them. But we did find a few solid people and were able to teach them, it was a good exchange down there in Belle Isle.
Elder Godfrey and I are doing all we can to help our Zone improve and progress, I'm looking forward to our workload this transfer! It's going to be good, I can feel it! :)
We had some pretty sweet miracles this week. The first one we knocked on a door and this gangster walks out, hoodie, hat, sweats, the whole shabang. We start talking with him and it turns out he has 7 kids, AND he is married!! He just got out of prison last September (don't know how long he was in but it was a while) and now he's getting his life back together. He's withdrawn himself from the street life by choice, he knows it's not conducive to family life and it won't get him anywhere. He's already turned a new leaf and he wants to involve God more in that change! After the first lesson we had with him we came back in a couple of days and taught him about the nature of the Godhead, being God our Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost. He was blown away about them being separate beings, all working for one common goal: our salvation. Taught him how to pray, and he's starting to recognize that he feels the Holy Ghost when we come over. He wants us to come over every single day to see him and help him understand more, solid guy! It'll be a long road to Baptism but we're determined to get him there.
Another one happened just last night. We had an appointment fall through at 8pm so Elder Godfrey and I prayed about where we should go and we drove to a certain street. As soon as we got out of the car I looked at a house across the street and felt the smallest prompting to go try it. So we get to it and a lady named Vicky answers the door, we start talking with her about if she believed families could be together forever and she said "No, I think family relationships are only for this life." We talked a little bit about some things there and about how Christ bestowed upon Peter the power to bind on Earth and in Heaven family relationships, and that God does not intend for our beautiful families to end at death!! She invited us in and we taught her The Restoration. She revealed to us that she has been praying to know which Church was teaching the truth, since she had lost confidence in the words of the Bible because of it being translated so much. We helped her understand that God has restored His truth to the Earth and that He's provided evidence of that, being the Book of Mormon. Seeing her again on Tuesday!
I know God sends us to those He has prepared to receive His Gospel! We knocked doors for a while before we went to Vicky's street with no success, but Heavenly Father let our 8pm appt. fall through so we could meet Vicky instead. How good is that!?? I love being the Lord's instrument every day. It's incredible to see how He orchestrates situations for us to be in just the right place at just the right time to give His children the opportunity to accept the restored Gospel. I'm grateful to be serving a mission! I love The Lord and His work, we're sprinting here in Roseville! No time to mess around. We've got moves to make! Souls to save! People to love and serve. God bless us to magnify our callings wherever we are in the world and in each capacity that we serve Him in.
Elder Goff
Saying goodbye in Livonia-Pictures below
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