We Pulled Up Our Socks!

Apparently that's a Canadian term, that I thought was hilarious. 

Tuesday- We most cleaned and Elder Fullerton packed. We managed to go say goodbye to Thomas. 

That's Elder Fullerton for you!

Wednesday- We got a lift from a member down to Greenville, picked up Elder Lewis, and drove back. We hit some traffic, but managed to get to our dinner appointment on time. We left and went to another appointment with Justin. We talked briefly about Repentance, then left. 

Thursday- We got to work. We did weekly planning, then we did some tracting. The 4th door we knocked on let us right in. He said he used to meet with missionaries. We talked with him for a while, and he gave us Sprites. His wife had some really good questions, but we had an appointment we had to get to. We answered a couple of them, then got going. The appointment fell through anyway. We tracted at several areas, and found a couple of people who invited us back. We did some walking around in Weldon, and we taught a guy the first part of the restoration as he sat in his car. We saw Thomas again after that, but didn't get to teach him. We set up a church tour with him for Sunday.

Friday- We drove down to district meeting. It's all about becoming consecrated missionaries this month. After we got home, had lunch, and finished studies, we hit the pavement. We were led to tract this complex called Carriage Hill. We found several potentials there and were able to give out a lot of Books of Mormon. We made it a goal to ask for a lot of referrals, and we got a couple. We had dinner, then went to Food Lion to talk to people. We had 31 I/O's today!!

Running to or from?

Saturday- We were running all over the place today. We went to help a member take the cover off of their pool. Won't get to swim in it though ~_~. We went back to Carriage Hill and finished tracting it. We got a couple more referrals. Bishop's wife owns a dance studio, and they had a recital, so they had us stand there, so people could see us. Kind of a PR stunt. We went and taught Andrew and Chelsea. They're working on quitting smoking. They're off cigarettes, but they both have e-cigs. They're slowly working their way down. They're doing really well. 

Sunday- We went to church, did studies, and got to work. We went back to Carriage Hill and tried to contact our referrals. We got another referral from the sisters, so we went and tried to contact that. He wasn't home, but we talked with his neighbor. She has a BOM and reads from it pretty regularly. We invited her to pray about it. She suggested we visit a place called Lincoln Ave. We only had a short time before our Church Tour with Thomas. We stopped at a random house, and a man came out, and we started talking to him. He asked us questions about why the Bible was incomplete and why there were books taken out. We told him why, and then explained that the Book of Mormon brings back those lost truths. He was excited to read it. We have an appointment with him on Tuesday.

Sticky note fu manchu!

Spiritual thought- To go along with Consecration, there's a scripture in Omni that descibes it pretty well. It comes from Amaliki. It's in verse 26, "Yea, come unto him, and offer your whole souls as an offering unto him." Our whole souls simply means what it says in D&C 4:2 "Serve him with all your heart, might, mind, and strength." Consecration is a whole offering of self, putting our desires and our old life in a box on a shelf for two years. That's the biggest thing I'm working on right now, and it's produced a lot of miracles this week.

Love you all, have a great week.

Elder Dumont

We just found out that a son of a long time acquaintance just joined the mission as a Spanish speaking elder. Exciting!