First Zone Conference

This past week was sort of a crazy one, so I'll get right into it. 

Tuesday- We taught a recent convert named Tommy. Tommy is so great. He's got schizophrenia and he's a little shy, but he loves the gospel. After that we had a lesson with Terry. Terry is a 40 something year old black man. He has a baptismal date. All he needs to do is quit smoking. We then went and talked with a guy named Gregg. He's suffering from memory loss, so they were teaching him for several months, but we extended the baptismal commitment and he accepted!!! So excited for him. He just needs to quit smoking. That is seriously a huge problem out here.

Wednesday- All of our appointments for the day cancelled!! We worked on getting the Spanish Elder's car cleaned up for inspection on Friday (they drive us around a lot, so it was only fair). 

Thursday- The Zone Leaders asked me and Elder Terril to go with them to another Zone to do their car inspection. We thought it was only going to be a couple hours, but it ended up being all morning. At was hot, but at least the wind was blowing. I did get to see Elder Siddoway, so that was good. On our way to an appointment, we found this guy washing a car. We stopped and talked to him. He is golden. He says that had quit drinking 6 months ago with no therapist except Christ. We gave him a BOM and got his number down.

Friday- We had our zone conference today. It was very good. I got a lot out of it. My favorite quote from it was "Faith is not knowing God can do something. Faith is knowing God will do something." Powerful!! That's pretty much all that happened.

Zone 

Moses came for a visit

Saturday- I had my first taste of North Carolina barbeque today. It was delicious. The barbeque over here is vinegar based rather than ketchup based. I was skeptical at first but it was very good. We saw so many miracles today. First we talked with this lady at an assisted living center (we have an investigator who lives there). She wasn't supposed to go into work today. We taught her about The BOM and a little bit about the Plan of Salvation. Something really clicked with her. Then as we were biking home, we ran into a guy we were trying to get into contact with. His phone had been turned off, and we were heartbroken. We saw him on the side of the road!!! We touched base with him and got everything figured out. We had an interesting experience. We were talking with this guy by the McDonald's by our house, when this super anti guy drove up. He basically said that our message was from the depths of Hell. He said that the only way to be saved was through the confession and repentance of our sins and to rely on the blood of Jesus Christ. We agreed with him, and that really seemed to confuse him. He's like "You two are Mormons, and you agree with that?" Haha it was awesome. We went to a baptism and it got me thinking a lot about Issac. Dude, you need to get baptized. It will bless you life so much!!!

Sunday- More miracles. We were originally planning on contacting a referrel from our ward mission leader. On our way to their house, we talked with this guy. He told us that he was going through so stuff and he felt that he really needed somebody like us in his life right now. Then a little further down the road, we talked to some people outside their house. We taught them the restoration. Something clicked and they were eager to learn more. Two houses down, we met a lady who had just gotten engaged. We talked about how she could be with her husband to be for longer than this life. We gave her a BOM and set up an appointment. Heavenly Father has really blessed us these past two days.

Super crazy week. The weather is getting hotter and super humid. We're trying not to get heat stroke but it's tough. Anyways, Love you all. Keep to the faith

Elder Dumont