This week was great! On Tuesday I got to go to a New Missionary Training in Manchester. I got to see all of my friends from the MTC and also learn a lot about what It takes to be a good missionary.
On Wednesday I had the chance to go on Exchanges to Concord NH. The Capitol city of the state. It was really good to get a change of scenery.
My temporary companion was Elder Buchanan. He has been out for the same amount of time as Elder Jensen and he is training one of the missionaries that came out with me. I had a really good time with him and we set some crazy goals and achieved a few of them as well.
During the exchange I got to meet with investigators for the first time! I got to teach the Restoration to a brand new investigator named Honore (honor-ay). Honore is a refugee from Africa (Congo I think) and he barely speaks English. It was really a really cool experience to have to find a way to teach him simply enough for him to be able to understand. Near the end of the Lesson I extended the invitation to be baptized and he said yes! He doesn't have a baptismal date yet but he will within the next week or so. It was just so powerful to teach in such a simple way. The spirit was so strong.
After teaching Honore we got to teach another African-American man named Jean Claude. It was another lesson where we had to communicate with them simply and decipher their answers that came in somewhat vague broken English. Jean Claude is getting baptized near the end of this month! it's amazing to hear how he has progressed. He used to be totally drunk every time the missionaries went over to teach him and now he hasn't had any alcohol in weeks. I have loved teaching these people and seeing their progress.
On Thursday I got to teach 2 more investigators! on Thursday morning I taught Rob, the only thing keeping him from baptism is the Word of Wisdom. I did all I could to show him the blessings that he would receive by living the Word of Wisdom and I got to give him a Priesthood blessing at the end of the lesson. After teaching Rob we had a lot of time in-between appointments and we had made a goal to hand out 10 copies of the Book of Mormon. We each took 5 copies and put all the faith we could muster our ability to get them handed out. after a long cold day of tracting and street contacting we managed to hand out 3. I handed out 2 and Elder Buchanan handed out 1. We felt a little discouraged but we had a lesson coming up so we didn't let it bring us down too much.
Thursday night we had a lesson with an investigator named Heather. Heather is fairly new but it was plain to see she had been prepared by the lord to be put in our path. In the middle of the lesson we discovered that she had attended a sacrament meeting once around 16 years ago. She explained that she has always felt an indescribable pull toward our church ever since then. I know that the Lord has been preparing her for a long time to receive the Restored Gospel.
On Friday we had the chance to exchange back and we got to meet with some less active members of the ward and I placed the remaining 3 copies of the Book of Mormon I had! It was good to see that if you put your trust in the Lord you will meet your goals in due time.
On Saturday I got the flu so I slept all day. It was good to get caught up on sleep.
Love you all an I hope you have a good week!
-Elder McKenzie
Luke 1:37
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