Sing, Sing, Sing

Welcome back to the Elder Williams email block!

This week was a pretty good week! On much of Tuesday and Friday as

usual, I sat around in the office attempting to keep myself sane, but

the OTHER days of the week (and even during those days) great this

happened!

On Wednesday, we had interviews with President and Sister Johnson,

which went really well! I'm super excited to serve with them! Sister

Johnson was also made aware (and is now very aware (more on that

later)) of my singing, so my life should be fun for the next year!

On Wednesday and Friday, Thorpe and I got to meet with the

investigators that we found last week. Wednesday morning, we met with

Rodney, a man who was found by the Chinese Sisters and was interested

in meeting with us. He had a grandma pass away recently and we

therefore taught him the Plan of Salvation, the Spirit was very strong

and he was very accepting and excited about everything we taught him.

After the lesson, he said that he'd read the Book of Mormon and come

to church after this week! I'm excited to continue working with him!

On Friday, we got to leave the office early and teach Betkadu, an

Ethiopian immigrant who requested a copy of the Book of Mormon and was

interested in hearing more about it and the difference between our

church and every other church. So we went over and taught him the

Restoration and answered a bunch of questions he had about that very

topic, by the end of the lesson, he was excited to read the Book of

Mormon and continue meeting with us! I love seeing all of these

miracles happen here and feel so privileged to be able to witness

them!

On Sunday, I got to sing a solo in sacrament meeting! I sang "A Poor

Wayfaring Man of Grief" and it went AWESOMELY! The Spirit was super

strong as well! It was great! Why I Believe was also yesterday and I

got drafted to sing in a group of all of the departing missionaries

during it (I got a lot of weird looks and questions that night, it was

pretty great)!

Also on Sunday, my Ward (technically Thorpe and I but not really) had

a baptism! A man named Victor, who was taught by the Spanish Elders

but has a wife and kids in our Ward, was baptized, which was awesome,

yet confusing to figure out!

And that was my week! As I said, it was pretty awesome! I love being

able to use the gift of music to help people feel of the Spirit! I

just love being a missionary in general though! I hope all of you have

a wonderful week!

Sincerely,

Elder Sam Williams

Washington DC North Mission

11700 Falls Road

Potomac, MD, 20854