WEEK EIGHTY NINE - PEARLY

This week was great!

We had an interesting experience. We had pulled over to the side of the road to figure out where to go to tract. After a few minutes, a black Infiniti pulled up behind us and parked. We had decided on a place to go, so we started driving away, and noticed the Infiniti pull out with us. We turned left, and he turned left. We turned right and he turned right. Elder Gregory said, "Is he following us?" He started just turning different ways and went in a big loop. The Infiniti stayed behind our car the whole time, leaving no doubt that he was following us. We were getting pretty worried, so we flipped a u-turn at an intersection to shake him. As we passed him, I was hoping it would be someone we recognized, but the man was just staring directly at us with no expression. We turned quickly into a neighborhood and parked on a random street until we were pretty sure he was gone. We still have no idea who it was, but it was definitely weird. It's okay, we're protected.

We FINALLY had an investigator lesson! WOOHOO! Pearly is from Trinidad and Tobago and she is absolutely golden! She is totally amazing, but the only problem that she has is her husband. Although Doug doesn't hate us, he still hates church, and she's concerned about making him angry as she spends more and more time with church things. He's not interested at all, but Elder Gregory and his last companion got on his good side, so he doesn't have too big of a problem with Pearly taking the discussions. Their marriage has been on the rocks for a long time as well, and she doesn't want to do anything to compromise it more. She was talking to us about it last night, and I felt impressed to promise her specifically that if she prayed about the situation, Heavenly Father would provide a way to work with it. She said she would absolutely pray about it. It was such a great lesson, and the Spirit was super strong! I feel a lot more confident now as a missionary because I know the basic doctrines, so that means we're able to just have a conversation while teaching the core principles.

Things are going super great here in Queensland and Parkland! We're working hard, and hopefully I'll have more stories like Pearly for next week!

Love you all!

Elder DeWitt

 

 

Me outside in the snow (it wasn't a lot, but it was really wet, so that stunk)

Me cutting a board for a deck we built for a service project

Elder Chitano, me, Elder Hansen, and Elder Gregory with some heavy metal beams we installed to a home

With Elder Gregory in the car