WAHOOOOO! First Investigator at Church! The Ecuadorian came! He
was originally going to ditch Ohio (and move to Connecticut or back to Ecuador)
and buy a plane ticket to leave today. His life was in the pits and he had
nothing to stay for so he was planning to run from it all. But, Elder
Brown and I sat down beside him, on a curb outside his restaurant, and bore our
testimonies like never before. I don't think I have ever so earnestly, so
sincerely shared my testimony about the Atonement of Jesus Christ than
sitting there on the curb. He smoked while telling us of all this
pain that he'd been suffering. And you could see it in his face, he was
exhausted, he was quitting, he wanted to just run. But we told him that the only
way to be fully healed is the Atonement, is Jesus Christ. I bore testimony to
him, and then we sat in silence for a few moments letting the spirit work on
all of us. He sealed his commitment to come to church and we left him with a
word of prayer. Such a cool experience. It's vivid in my mind. LOVE IT.
Missionary work is awesome; it's unreal.
Before I forget to tell you, after transfers
we found out that we are staying put, which is just what we expected. We get to
keep working in the Dayton area! They are also splitting the mission right
through Dayton so if I’m still in this area come July it will be a toss up
as to which mission I end up in (Cincinnati or Columbus). We also just
found a promising investigator. She seems pretty prepared and we're so excited
for her! We've been trying to visit her recently to invite her to a baptismal
service that's soon, but every time we've been over she's had music on so loud
that she couldn't hear us knocking haha. So we've been leaving post-it sticky
notes and she's been replying through the sticky notes. One of these times
we'll hopefully catch her in a quiet part of her music.
Well I'll talk to you all this next Sunday! Love you all!
ADIOS.
Elder Kevin Graf
