Hey
Everyone,
Happy
New Year!
It
is such a relief to be done with all the holidays. The people we teach are
coming back into town and everything is going back to normal.
The
holidays were great though. We had a good New Years Eve. Our neighbor down
stairs that had moved out said that we could break into her vacant apartment
and take the couches that she had left.
Allow
me to explain. About a month ago a member moved away, and they were going to
throw away some couches. We said that we could give them to our downstairs
neighbor who didn’t have couches. So they gave the couches to us to give to our
downstairs neighbor.
Now that the downstairs neighbor had moved out, she said that we could have the
couches. It was pretty fun for me to pick the lock on the apartment because I
got to use my lock picks on something other than a detached lock in my room. I
got the lock open in less than 10 seconds. I know that when I have a place of
my own that I will be buying much safer locks than you see on most homes.
New
Years day we got together with another zone and played a ton of sports. It was
pretty fun.
So
last week we taught a guy that lives in a pretty rough neighborhood. He also
looked like a pretty rough guy. Add to this that it was a drunk guy that told
us to go see him. Not much for to go on for instilling confidence in the
outcome of our visits. Well, last week we told him to read the beginning of The
Book of Mormon up to 1 Nephi, Chapter 4. When we came by this past Saturday, he
had read up to 1 Nephi, Chapter 8, and he knew what was going on. He had marked
a few verses that he wanted to understand better. He told us that he
"couldn't put it down." He said he reads it every night before going
to bed, and he plans to read the whole book. To be honest, I was pretty
surprised but also very happy. I expect that he will be joining the church
through baptism in a month or so. Giving up smoking will probably be the
hardest thing for him.
Well
I hope you all have a great week.
Elder
Kirk
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