Exchanges and Lots of Service

Howdy everyone!

This week, we had exchanges with Elders Hirzel and Barduhn on

Wednesday. I stayed in the area and received Hirzel (because the trend

of me never leaving my area seems to continue). During the exchange,

we taught a really good lesson to a woman named Ange, who was

incredibly touched by the message of the Restoration and wants to

continue meeting with missionaries. The only problem is that her

French is a lot stronger than her English so she should go to the

French branch and meet with the French missionaries. However, at the

moment, there are no French missionaries assigned to the branch to

refer her to so for the moment, we are at a bit of an impasse with her

at the moment. Hopefully things can be figured out though because she

is super cool and very interested! Other than that though, the day as

a whole was pretty slow as far as lessons were concerned but overall

it was a good exchange.

On Thursday, we were able to meet with Omosayin, a man who we had

delivered a Bible and Book of Mormon to about a month or so back but

he hadn't been able to meet with us since because of his schedule.

When we got there, we found out that he's been meeting with some

missionaries online that have been (and kinda still are) teaching him

the discussions. So we kinda had to completely change our plans at the

last second and teach him the Gospel of Jesus Christ using 2 Nephi 31,

which is something I haven't done in a really long time, but the

lesson went pretty well all things considered. Apparently he met with

the online missionaries last night as well, so we are probably going

to have to talk to the other missionaries and Omosayin about figuring

out what is actually going on at the moment because it's kinda

confusing... The good news though is that he was able to come to

church on Sunday and really liked it. He told us that he knows that

joining the church and being baptized is what God wants him to do and

so he plans to do so! I'm excited to continue working with him once we

figure out what's going on with the other missionaries!

The other big thing from this week was that on Friday, we spent pretty

much the whole day at the Renberg's (an awesome family in the Ward)

helping them clean up their yard (they have a very big and forestey

yard) for an Easter party they were having the next day. It was really

fun but a lot of hard work and both Elder Talbot and I were very tired

and sore afterwards!

And that was basically all of the noteworthy moments of this week!

Attached is a photo of a lot of the missionaries at the Cherry Blossom

Festival last week. I love you all! Have a fantastic week!

Sincerely,

Elder Sam Williams

8301 Ashford Blvd #606

Laurel, MD, 20707

Missionaries at the Cherry Blossom Festival