July 7th, 2014- Fourth of July Fireworks & FOOD!

Hey everybody!  How was everyone's week?  My week was pretty awesome.  Earlier in the week we had a great lesson with a new investigator named Beverly.  We taught her the restoration and she seems very prepared.  But of course there is always opposition... She told us a couple of days ago that she was having some shoulder problems and on top of that she has shingles.  No fun...  So we aren't sure when we are going to be able to meet with her again.

We saw Daniel on Saturday!  He is still very interested and actually was off work on Saturday night so we asked if he wanted to come to church!  Well his wife got baptized in another church yesterday and he wanted to be there to support her.  We talked with him about baptism and gave him the invitation.  He understands that it is a big commitment and is going to really ponder and pray about it.  Which is awesome! That's what we want!  

We picked up another investigator a couple of weeks ago named Brad.  Super cool guy.  He was introduced to the church by a friend in Atlanta.  He went to church in Atlanta with him and the missionaries there started teaching him.  He is going to be baptized on the 13th in Atlanta.  I guess he should be baptized here but he already has all the fellowship and friends in Atlanta.  I'm so excited for him but we are trying to transition him into the Fort Payne branch since he lives in our boundaries.  He was supposed to come to church here yesterday but texted us before it started and said he wasn't going to make it.  He said he had been praying and there was something he needed to do, and that he would explain more the next time we meet with him.  I'm not sure if that's good or not haha.  I can't wait to meet with him next week and find out what the heck happened!

That's about how my week went!  Other than a fun 4th of July!  We were able to go some fireworks Thursday night that Fort Payne put on and the next night we went to see a part member family who were actually having a cook-out.  They invited us to stay and have some food so that was pretty sweet!  These people know how to grill out! haha we really lucked out that night.  We even had a pretty good gospel discussion with Jeff (the nonmember) and we cleared up a lot of misconceptions he had heard about us so it was great!  

Well I love yall!  Hope that you have a great week!

Elder Whetten