Dear Family and Friends,
How has everyone been doing! It's been a fun time here in the city, but the city's been a little depressed these past couple days since the ravens lost! But it's a perfect time to teach them about Jesus and how we can find joy regardless of our circumstances!
This week has been a good week though. We've been able to talk to a bunch of people because it actually warmed up a lot. Its was 70 on Saturday which was really nice. But it was quite the contrast because it actually snowed on Tuesday! Pretty crazy!
We've had a lot of small tender mercies that happened this past week:
We are visiting this lady who had been inactive, but ever since we started visiting her she has been coming back to church, but we've tried to put a big focus on her husband. And ever since I've been here in Baltimore we have tried to set up a lesson with the husband, but he keeps avoiding us everytime. So this past week we kinda showed up unannounced at her house, and she came out and said that she was about to leave and another day would be better. But then her husband came out and whispered something in her ear, and she told us to come in. So we went in and they fed us and we taught them the Plan of Salvation and it was so cool. It was so cool to see how the Lord truly softened his heart and we were able to help them out.
We stopped by Brad and Darleen's house this week at 7 on Monday night and she told us it was much too late for that and she said we could come by Friday in the afternoon. So that's what we did. And she opened the door, a little surprised that we remembered, and told us that she doesn't have time and she would let us know when shes ready for a message. We then talked for a little more and she completely opened up about some trials she was going through and she started breaking down crying and she asked us to come in and say a prayer for her. So we did and then we shared some scriptures with her and you could see the burden that was lifted off of her. As we were leaving, she asked why we didn't pray to Joseph Smith if he was our main guy. I then told her that Jesus was the main guy of our church and we pray to the father through him, and that is why we are called the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. She then felt really bad she called us mormons and said that she knew God sent us to her house that day! I really love being on the Lord's errand!
Sorry this is short but I love you all and I hope you all.have a great week!
Elder Jorgensen
