10/11/2011

Hey All Y'all,

Man, Philly is just doing great! It has been a really good week. We now have two people with a baptism date, both for Oct. 30th. Stacy basically reconfirmed his date last week. We haven't seen him since last Tuesday, but he has told us he has been praying and that he really wants the Lord in his life. It's music to my ears!

We were at Diego's last night, and I lost my name tag. We found it after a looooooooooooooong search (okay... so I lost it while tearing off the plastic off of a couch he had sitting in his front room). It had ended up falling inside of the couch. We had given up and gone back to our apartment, and we remembered that Elder Belden had filmed me tearing off the plastic. We were able to see it fall onto the couch, which lead us to tilting the couch up on it's side again and shaking it until we found it. The Lord answered our prayers. He truly cares about us and the things we care about. He is great and greatly to be praised, so come let us worship the King!

Thursday was a bit of a bummer, as everyone canceled on us, and that was okay. We figured other things out. Saturday we helped out Sister Nickles with some service she "needed" us to help with. It was mainly just a way for us to get to know her less active brother and nonmember sister-in-law. We made some good impressions, and her sister-in-law was very impressed with us.

Sister Oaks is progressing closer and closer to baptism. We had an awesome lesson on baptism, repentence, the Holy Ghost and the Sacrament. It was really good! And She has been studying baptism lately too, since her bro-in-law sent her some scriptures and information about it.

We got a media referral that we were able to contact last night. She requested the Joy To The World DVD. She saw an ad on Facebook for it. We delievered it and talked about the Book Of Mormon. She is interested in it and is going to read the copy we left with her. More and more blessings.

Needless to say, the Lord is really blessing Philadelphia. It is just so awesome and amazing to see His hands working here. Please keep praying for us and the people here. And also continue to look for opportunities to share the gospel over there. The Lord needs us all the spread His message in anyway we can. So please do so! :)

Transfer are a week from today, and Elder Belden's end is drawing near. I am excited to see who my new companion will be and if I am actually training or not. We should get the phone call this next week.

I hope you all had a happy Columbus day yesterday! As a missionary, I didn't like it. It means no mail! Oh well! :D

I love you all and wish you the best week possible! Keep on keeping on! Kia Kaha as they say!

Love,
Elder Dwight Mendenhall