What a week
it has been! I’m not sick anymore which is good. It was hard to tell Elder
Kleiman goodbye and help him pack for leaving home! We had a lot of fun before
he left. It was hard killing off a missionary but I think I have had the best
experiences so far with Elder Kleiman. I look up to him a lot--He was a great
trainer and an even better friend.
The night
before he went, we got invited to a college Christian group that has a service
every Wednesday night. We went thinking that it would be a calm little church
service, but little did we know that it turned into a Christian Rock concert!
It was a blast; there was a full on band and it was a good time. Elder Kleiman
and I got very Protestant--dancing and singing and all! Haha It was a great way
to end the transfer!
I dropped Kleiman off at the transfer train at like 6:30 in the morning on Thursday, and then spent the day in Blacksburg (where Virginia Tech is) with my District leader and his companion. It was fun; we did a lot of walking because they didn't have a car.
Around five, later that day, I was able to pick up Elder Williams! My Boy! Hahaha He is awesome! He is also 18 and just graduated from High school. He is from Grantsville, Utah. We have a lot in common and he is very teachable and already so prepared to be out here! I don’t even have to train him, he is already pre trained! He is a great kid and I love him!
I have been keeping us very busy! We taught ten lessons together last week and we picked up three new investigators. We started teaching a college girl named Liz Scott. It was a great lesson, She came up to us and wanted to talk about Jesus. Haha That’s what she said! I think she wanted to meet with us to try to prove us wrong but as soon as we started teaching her the Restoration her mindset changed quickly. It was a very Spiritual lesson and you could see the spirit working on her. We were able to get her to commit to reading the Book of Mormon and pray about it so we are excited to meet with her again.
I saw
one of the nastiest things in my life this week. We were mowing Mrs. Maguire’s lawn like we normally do (The old crazy lady we pulled out of the ditch.) And she was telling us how her cat had gone missing for over a week. Well after about
ten minutes, I was pushing the lawn mower and saw Elder Kleiman had found the
cat and was just staring at it. So I walked over to grab it and take it to Mrs.
Maguire and as soon as I saw it, I realized why it had gone missing. We think
that some kind of animal attacked it... It had a big bite out of its stomach
and the maggots and other bugs had been eating it for a while now! It was
disgusting--It looked like something out of the walking dead! And it was still
alive and moving around! It was so gross! And we had no idea what to do! So we
didn't do anything. Haha We were so disgusted. We told Mrs. Miguire that her
cat came home and we left.... I guess we will see what happened to it this
week! It was Nasty! I guess that was the weirdest part of my week. Haha
Training has been really good so far! I have been trying to find some more
families to teach. I have a goal that I want to have two more baptisms before I
leave Radford. Elder Williams and I prayed that we would find a promising
family to teach and we were going throughout our day and nothing really was
happening so I decided we would take a break and go to the store and buy
groceries. So we went in and we were in the cereal section of the store, taking
our time to decide what kind of cereal to buy when a very nice mom with a baby
walked by us, I started to talk to her and pulled the "Were Just 18 year
olds and just moved away from home" card on her. It worked! It turns out
she has more kids and she lives in Radford and invited us over to her house
sometime to visit with her husband and her family! It was a huge blessing and a
great way to exercise our faith.
Seeing Elder Williams come in and me training him really opened my eyes and made me realize how much I have progressed in the gospel. I know I'm learning things that I would have never learned if it wasn't for me being on a mission and serving the Lord. I love being a Missionary. I can finally say that I'm happy and loving this. I thank everyone for the prayers and all the support. I love you all and hope everyone has a great week.
Keep the Faith,
-Elder Bingham
So Kaleb wrote to his grandma Caryl and told
her that he is usually “A Fisher of men, but on P-days, he is a Fisher of fish!” Haha
(I’m glad he still has time to do something that he loves every once in
a while!)
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