Hello friends, family, and everybody else,

This week has been very good to me and Elder Thompson. We were able to re-establish contact with a few people and some of them have been reading the Book of Mormon (to our honest surprise). It has been amazing for me to see how some areas of the neighborhood we receive a positive greeting, while in others we will get nothing more than a "not interested" through the door. Elder Thompson and I are always praying and looking for those areas that we will feel are best prepared for our message.

The two most exciting things that happened this week are:

1) This has been a very spiritual week for us; we have been able to learn by the spirit at what seems like an accelerated rate. During our companionship study we discuss what we have each learned and then we learn from each other about a wide array of gospel topics. One of the members here has had a lot of great experiences and he has been able to teach us a lot of things as well.

2) Yesterday while we were tracting, a car stops next to us and three teenage girls yell at us "who are you". I replied "were the missionaries". We walked over to their car and we ended up talking with the three of them for almost an hour. We gave them two Books of Mormon and two pass along cards with our missionary phone numbers on it. We made it very clear to them that we were not eligible for dating and that prank calls would not be tolerated. But we did encourage them to call us if they ever had any questions about the Book of Mormon or our beliefs. Most of the questions they asked us throughout the hour were where are you from and what do missionaries do? They did ask a few questions about our beliefs. But this is where the story gets really interesting: as Elder Thompson and i were getting ready for the next day (back in our apartment now) we received a call from one of the girls asking if we could meet them and the local pizza place (we live right next to it). So we went down stairs and the three girls were there with two giant cupcakes, they said that we were cool guys and they wanted to give us a gift. So...Elder Thompson and I enjoyed two giant cupcakes last night.

That’s all folks, until next time :)

Love, Elder Luymes

 

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Rewards of my labors

 

Our local chapel for our "twig"