One Confirmed Kill

Hey hello howdy hey! (Maybe if I keep using various greetings, I'll

seem friendlier)

This week turned out to be pretty interesting and awesome! Monday

night, we were sitting around in our apartment wondering what to do

for proselyting hours when suddenly, we got a call from, Sonia, asking

us to come over as soon as possible and help her and Scott with some

yard work. It turns out that we ended up spending the rest of the

night there as she invited us to have dinner with them and share a

quick spiritual thought with them! It was awesome being able to

finally teach them after almost a transfer of trying to set an

appointment up! They even invited us to come by that next Wednesday to

help out with some other stuff and share another message with them!

Tuesday was spent visiting brother Swarzak and chilling so Harrison

could pack up to go home.

On Wednesday, the deed was done and Thorpe and I said goodbye to

("killed") Elder Harrison. As it turns out, President Cooke wants to

get rid of the office elder position, therefore Thorpe and I are

staying together without being in a trio and in order to phase out

going to the office, we only go to the office two times a week and

spend the rest of our time proselyting! Which I'm super happy about!

Though the time we do spend at the office is fun. Thorpe does his

financial secretary stuff and I lift heavy objects and do the jobs no

one else wants to do, which is actually pretty fun! Though I am glad

it's not a daily job!

That evening, we went over to Sonia's again, helped her with more

house work, and once again had dinner and a lesson with them. The

lesson turned out really well and the spirit was very powerful, I even

felt the conversation shifting towards challenging all five of them to

baptism, until Andrew, her oldest son started insulting people in the

middle of the lesson. It turns out that Sonia's ex-husband is kinda a

scum bag and has convinced the son that his mom is evil and that he

needs to make her life miserable until she snaps and the dad gets an

excuse to call CPS on her to take away the kids (she has full custody

currently, I don't think the dad even has visitation). It's a really

sad situation and I just hope that things will work out for them and

that the spirit will soften his heart and help them come together as a

family! I know that the Spirit has the power to do that as long as

they are willing to accept His message and follow Christ!

Thursday was the first zone-district meeting of the transfer and to

celebrate, I made no-bake cookies for the district, which were very

well received! After that, we met with Brother Swarzak again (we read

Alma 7 with him, which was great!), and I made dinner for the

apartment as a "happy new transfer!" Celebration thing. It turned out

really well actually (pictures included because why not). That night,

Thorpe and I decided to go around and try to get in contact with some

people that we hadn't been able to meet with for a while. As we did

so, we finally got in contact with Igor, a recent convert who was

confirmed the week before we got in the area and then vanished off the

face of the earth. Turns out, he has been super busy with work and had

been all over the place until just before we stopped by! We were able

to reteach him the Restoration and ended up having a super spiritual

discussion with him about our Heavenly Father's love and the blessings

of the priesthood (since getting the Aaronic priesthood is the next

step for him).

On Saturday morning, Celine, who we hadn't been able to get in contact

with the last few weeks, called as and asked us if we were able to

come by that night and visit with her. Therefore, that night, we got

to visit with Celine and share with her the Gospel of Jesus Christ,

which (and I know I say this a LOT about almost everyone) was EXACTLY

what she needed to hear at that very moment to help and strengthen

her. This gave me another confirmation that the Gospel truly is the

word of God that is given to us from a loving Heavenly Father to bless

all of His children if we will just listen to the Spirit and follow

Him!

Yesterday night was Why I Believe. President Cooke and his family

spake as a "last hoorah" before they leave at the end of the month.

I've loved having President Cooke as my mission president and will

miss him very much, though I am also excited to be able to meet

President Johnson and serve under him for a little more than the

second half of my mission!

I love you all! Have a fantastic week!

Sincerely,

Elder Sam Williams

Washington DC North Mission

11700 Falls Road

Potomac, MD, 20854

Dinner is served.

How missionaries travel in large number on P-day (there is a guy in the trunk as well)

More travel shenanigans!