Transfer time again

Last week of the transfer was a pretty good one, here’s the highlights. 

Lozano-Garcia family:

We went by with a Spanish speaking couple in our ward on Tuesday and taught them the Plan of Salvation, which went very well.  Their 12 year old son shouted out "ahí es donde quiero estar!" Or "That’s where I want to be!" When we read about the Celestial Kingdom. It was a great lesson. 

Helping Hands:

With all the flooding here in the Knoxville area, the church sent a disaster relief supply truck to the stake.  So on Friday we went over to one of the building to help unload a Semi Truck full of supplies.  Our main job after that was to assemble the Wheel Barrows, haha. It was really fun, actually.  We got put into teams of 3 and I was with Elder Love, one of our ZL's, and President Pickett.  All in all I would say there were close to 75 built by about 10 missionaries. 

Saturday:

Saturday was weird.  It was supposed to be a big long day of service from 9-5, so that’s what we were planning on. So we show up to the same church building and there are tons of members and missionaries there, which was cool to see, all in those yellow 'helping hands' shirts.  They were sending people out to different projects, but we, as well as about 25 other people, ended up getting told they didn’t need us because there wasn’t enough to do. It’s a good problem to have I guess. 

The new AP was also there. His companions had left to the Nashville temple with a recent convert. The plan was for him to do the service with us until they got back, but instead we just took him back to our area for the day. 

Church of Christ MTC:

Well one day I guess I was feeling pretty bold because we walked by some apartments on a little campus of a preaching/missionary school, and we decided to knock a few doors. We talked to a few people that were pretty shocked that we were there, haha. Most the people there have families and stuff, and they just go to the school for 2 years to get their degree.  

I think it was a good thing, although a couple of the conversations went down the more 'Bash' road. But it feels good when the spirit backs you up when you are going toe to toe with a trained preacher.  We ended up giving one of the guys a Book of Mormon. After clearing up some little misconceptions, he was more open to the idea. So it ended up being pretty good. 

Transfer calls:

Elder Sowby is going to be headed out on Wednesday, and my new companion will be Elder Vinyard.  We actually came out together, but were not in the same MTC district because he learned Spanish, so I just know him a little bit. But I am really excited.

Hope y’all have a good week. 

Elder Roden