This week was a great one! It was long and we worked hard but it was also very rewarding! We had a few really powerful lessons that strengthened my testimony and felt really good to teach.
On Monday last week, after preparation day was over, we got a call from one of our investigators named Jesse Huffman. We have been working with Jesse for a long time, ever since I got here. He has been battling cancer for the last year and I’m pretty sure he isn't going to last much longer. It’s sad to see but, it’s also really cool to see because even though he hasn't been able to get baptized yet, he has so much faith in the Lord and He has read the Book of Mormon and he knows it’s the truth. We were able to go give him a blessing in the hospital that night and you could feel the spirit so strongly with him. It’s comforting to see someone with so much hope and endurance. I don't know what will happen to him from here, but what I do know is that Heavenly Father loves him and He has much in store for him in this next life. Watching Him has made me so grateful for the Plan of Salvation. This gospel is amazing!
After we left the hospital, one of our college investigators called us and told us she wanted to know more about what God has planned for her in this life. Her name is Liz Scott. We were able to meet up with her that night and she broke down and told us all of her life story. She has come from a rough back ground. Her parents were drug abusers and she has been in and out of foster homes. She now is a Christian and is strong in the Baptist faith. When we meet with her, she worked us over with questions. But luckily the spirit was so strong we had no problem answering them! At the end of our lesson we invited her to be baptized and she accepted the invite! So hopefully now she will put in the effort and live all the commitments!
We found a new investigator this week! This girl named Trendy came up to us on campus and she has a really cool story! She is from Africa and moved to America with her family when she was really young. Her Grandma was a Mormon and took her to church with her for years when she was growing up. When she was eight or nine she wanted to get baptized but her parents told her that she had to wait until she was a little older. So a couple years passed, but her Grandma died of cancer. It was really hard for her, before she died, her grandma told her to keep going to our church. So Trendy did. She kept going to our church with a family she was close to until she was about 10 or 11. Her parents one morning told her that she needed to go to their Methodist church. She went and she met with the preacher and talked to him. This Preacher took her into his office and he freaked her out. He told her all of these lies about the Mormon church and basically showed her all of this terrible anti-Mormon videos to scare her out of continuing to go to the LDS church. So she was so scared that she completely stopped going to our church. Which is very sad... but she found us and told us she has realized that what she saw and the things they told her were not true. She wanted us to come re-teach her everything that she has forgotten. We had a great lesson with her about the restoration and the coolest part was that you could almost feel her grandma’s influence there. We have some high hopes for her and are really excited!
We had a specialized training with President Salisbury last week! It was a really good one we learned a lot about how the spirit affects our missionary work and what we can do to improve our success and see more baptisms. He surprised us at the end and showed us the new church movie that will be coming out in theaters in a couple weeks called Meet The Mormons! It was a great movie and I would encourage everyone to go. It had us all in tears. Haha
Well all is still going well here in Radford. We will be moving apartments tomorrow or Wednesday! Our new address is.....
916 2nd Street Radford, VA 24141
I hope everyone has an awesome week! Pray for our investigators so we can get some of them hopefully baptized soon! I love you all! Keep the faith!
-Elder Kaleb Bingham.
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