2/3/14

Dear Everyone,

I hope you are all doing well. I, on the other hand, am Happy! There are a lot of reasons to be happy, but being a missionary you have them all! It has been something I have observed with everyone I meet and especially within the church. Those that are keeping the commandments and doing what they are supposed to are happy, but the families that are the most happy to the point that they are glowing, are the families that are anxiously engaged in doing missionary work.

There are some pretty cool highlights for this week. One of them has to do with that miracle that I shared last week. I was able to finally meet with Dad's referral! She and her husband were very nice. Yes...she is married which is amazing for Western New York. They are both way nice and have a definite interest in learning about our beliefs. They are both immigrants from Ukraine, He has an accent she does not. The meeting that we had with them was awesome. We approached the meeting in a very friendly manner not wanting to be forceful or anything. Which turned out to be the best way. After a while they began to ask all the questions which led us to teaching them about the Restoration. It was a very pleasant experience. We will be meeting with them again next Sunday. 

Another highlight took place while at Pep boys. We had to go get new tires for our Subaru Legacy (pretty sweet :) it has the flappy paddle shifting) and of course it takes pep boys 3 hours to change tires out. So we had three hours to walk around in the -20 degree howling wind. It was brutal. We found some bitter sweet success as we were walking around doing OYM's (open your mouth) but the real success came as we stumbled upon one of the sister missionaries investigators. He is a thug (remember this). He recognized us and started to talk to us and tell us that he had some bad news. He told us that he was going to "drop" the sisters. Come to find out. The reason why he wanted to "drop" the sisters was because they took him to a choir concert and he HATED it. Hahaha My companion and I started laughing at the thought of this guy at a choir concert. Anyways we told him "Don't worry about it...they won't mind" (don't feel bad for the sisters because this guy is technically in our area:). So we invited him to come play ball at the church with us, of course he accepted. I have a feeling he is going to become a pretty solid investigator eventually. 



There were only a few low lights this week and a good majority come from having 4 elders in the same apartment. Nothing bad has happened. It can just be hard to get everything done. I think my roommates are almost as bad as girls :) 

Thanks for all your support.

Love,

Elder Bevan