Following Promptings -- July 21, 2014

Hey Everyone! 

This week was really good! We were able to find more people to teach and set up appointments for this week! It cooled down a lot here, thank goodness! It’s been in the 60s here and it has made tracting a whole lot better! It usually is really hot and humid all day and you feel like you are walking around in an oven! 

   

Elder Lopez and I had some really cool spiritual experiences this last week. We were tracting one afternoon and we were having no success at all. So after praying very hard, I got a prompting that we needed to go across town to a park by the river here. Elder Lopez didn't want to go to the park, but we ended up going. We got there and started talking to people that were walking along the river and we meet two families that might be interested in hearing more of our message, so it was awesome!  But I kept noticing a college kid that was following us around the park. He kept his distance, but he was kind of stalking us in a way. So we kept talking to everyone and when we were walking back to our car, the man met us there.  He asked us where we were going.  We then told him and he asked us if we could sit down and talk, so we did.  We went to a park bench and started talking to him. His name is Blake; he told us that he is a convert and he got baptized last year. He has been having a lot of troubles and is very sick with crohn’s disease. He told us he needed a blessing and there wasn’t anyone he knew in Radford that could do that for him.  He then told us that he was prompted to come to the park after he had been praying for help in his life. We were able to give him a blessing and share a good message about our Savior with him. It was so cool to see the Lord work through me and guide me to this man. It was an experience I will never forget. 

   

We still teach Jesse and his family.  They are all investigating now and we go over and see them about every other night.  We have grown very close with them. They have like a multi- generation household. Jesse, his sister Lois and her daughter Thae, and her kids sometimes stay there. We hopefully will be able to get them to church and be baptized. Jesse has treatments every day for his lung cancer and he also drives two hours away to the city of Roanoke to visit his wife in a nursing home. He loves listening to the Book of Mormon.  He is such a great guy and he tells us when he is healed and his life is less crazy and hard, he will come to church and be baptized. 

    

I’m starting to learn to love missionary work more and more. It’s hard, but it is getting easier through a lot of faith and a ton of prayer. Thanks so much for all of the encouragement and all the prayers. I love getting letters and all these emails.  I love you all and hope you have an awesome week!

Keep the FAITH, 

Elder Kaleb Bingham

My District--Love them!