Preachin' In The Skreets

Hey guys, I'll try to make this one short. This week we had a funny experience literally preaching on a street, we got some girl scout cookies, and found some new people to teach.

I'll start with the important stuff. We had a cool miracle where we were out in the middle of nowhere driving to a member's house and we saw a sign by a house that said Girl Scout Cookies. We had to stop and get a bunch. We stopped and walked up, but before we got to the door, a guy answered and told us to turn around and leave. We said we just wanted the cookies, and he let us come in. Turns out he was an inactive member of the church. They turned out to be super nice. We ended up getting orders from the a few people in the zone and we bought over 10 boxes of cookies.

On Saturday I was with Elder Grant in downtown Sanford. We were going to do the baptismal interview for Natasha. We parked the car and got out and there as a guy with a mic and speakers set up on a cement pad next to the road. He told us to come over and he started asking if we were preachers, and we explained what we do. He asked if we could preach for a little bit right there and we said we can. There were about 10 people sitting down on the other side of the street watching us. I offered the opening prayer and then Elder Grant got up and preached from John 3 about baptism. He did great and the people enjoyed it. He was about to open up the Book of Mormon and read from Mosiah 18 which also speaks about the covenant of baptism, and then invite all those that wanted to be baptized to meet with us, but then Natasha came out and told us to come in and do the interview because we were late. We were kind of bummed. We wanted to see what the audience's reaction would be to us inviting them to be baptized and us reading the Book of Mormon, but oh well. I guess it wasn't meant to be.

We have a couple new people to teach that are pretty solid. We had a lesson with a guy with no religious background whose girlfriend was a member of the church. It was very unique for me because almost everyone here in Florida knows something about God and Jesus Christ. We will see how things go with him.

This week we will have exchanges and then a baptism on Saturday. It should be a good week. Talk to you all next week.