This week was a long one! We had a challenging week for sure but it ended in a really rewarding way!
We started the week off good. We had a fun p-day; we went fishing and went and ate at Taco Bell. Unfortunately, we didn't catch any fish last week but it still felt great to just be fishing and throwing a line out there! We usually go and walk through part of the river where we catch the fish, but this time we stayed on the shore. I love the New River, it’s the big river that surrounds Radford. It’s beautiful and one day I will come back and get to hopefully float it like all the people here do!
We picked up two new investigators this last week. The first one we picked up is Lois Marsh. She is a nice lady and is very Methodist. She is older but still has a lot of potential! We taught her the Restoration and she really enjoyed it. It’s hard for people to understand sometimes that we needed to have the restoration so we could have the priesthood back to the earth. But it was a great lesson and we committed her to be baptized on Oct 25th! We were pretty excited for that.
The other investigator we picked up is Shyann. We are teaching her boyfriend. They are both in high school but they ask some good deep questions and are excited to learn! We had a good lesson with her and with Josh, her boyfriend. Hopefully we can get them on date for baptism soon!
We are teaching a young man, well a kid my age. haha He is going to school at RU and he is the son of a Lutheran Pastor. I found him and we have been working with him. I think He let us teach him so he could try to prove us wrong. But amazingly enough, we were able to teach him the Restoration and we came back and watched the Joseph Smith movie with him. He said that his church always told lies about Joseph Smith growing up and all these years, he had a misconception of who he is and what he did. It was an incredible lesson and we put him on date to be baptized in the end of October. I hope he can hold in there; it’s going to be hard for his family to accept the fact he is taking lessons from Mormon missionaries and preparing for baptism. One thing I have learned is that if it’s meant to be, the Lord will always prepare a way for someone to follow Him.
Well I took my boy Elder Williams tracting. He hated it! Haha We went out two different days and knocked on doors. It was disappointing because we couldn't find anyone that is interested. We have been trying very hard to find a good solid normal family to teach and baptize and we have been praying for it, but so far we haven't found them. In our area, we have a college and a family community. It’s a fun mix. It is so easy to talk to kids in college and find ones that are interested. We have been very blessed to find a lot of people from RU. The only sad part is that the closest YSA ward is in Blacksburg where Virginia Tech is. It’s about 30 minutes away. So Hopefully we can start getting them to the family ward!
We are going to have to move apartments this week. We share a house with a terrible family that lives in the basement. The house we live in is not meant to house two different families. The people we live with are not married and have two kids who have both been kicked out of school and the parents are not allowed on any school campuses in Radford. But the worst part is that we complained to the land lord about them and they got upset at us for it, so they have been spreading a lot of rumors to the ward members that they know saying we throw parties and all this bad stuff. So President Salisbury is coming down today to take us house shopping. I will let you know if our address changes.
Well that's just about all of the exciting stuff that has been going on here! I appreciate all of the support and encouragement. We have seen many miracles and are very excited to see what this next week brings us. I love you all! Keep the Faith!!
-Elder Kaleb Bingham
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