Dear Friends and Family,
This week was absolutely fantastic, we saw so many cool miracles. And also had a couple of firsts haha
Here are some of the firsts:
1. We were knocking in the afternoon and we decided to knock this one door that had a nice little yard. We knocked and a little yap yap dog just started going off, but no one answered. The dog quieted down and so we decided to knock again and the dog started barking again. But this time a big lady came to the door and was not to happy. She started getting red in the face and screaming at the top of her lungs that if someone doesn't answer the first time you knock don't ever knock again!!!!!! And then slammed the door with quite some force. Never before has anyone been that angry because we knocked at the door, but I turned to my companion for the day and said. No more fear, there is nothing that we will encounter today that will be worse than that. And we went on our merry way!
2. We doubled in our area here in Clarksville which was a lot of fun. We had 2 companionships knocking for a solid 6 hours each and we probably had 2 people who actually wanted to talk. It was definitely a fun experience, but the 2 who did talk to us were super interested and so we are excited for them. We also went and knocked the biggest house in Clarksville just for kicks.
3. We were out in the boonies of West Virginia this past week knocking a good ole trailer park. And as we were walking a car pulled up and started yelling at us for soliciting, and we simply explained that we weren't. He kept on going at us, and we told him the house and the name of the people we were going to visit and he was still kept on yelling at us, and his wife was getting soooooooo mad. She eventually just got out of the car and started walking, so he drove off picked her up and went to his trailer. Crazy people
But even though there was a lot of persecution this week, we saw a bunch of miracles too. We had some cool lessons with the people we were teaching like our friend Viviana. We did a book of Mormon read with a member and she was all over it! She even invited the member over to swim and her house and also to read some scriptures together as well!!! Member present lessons are the key.
We also had a follow up lesson with a lady on exchanges that turned out soooooo well! She read the pamphlet the missionaries gave her last time and she actually understood it and the the purpose of a restoration! The crazy thing is that contact before she was super closed off and didn't want to talk because she was catholic. People's hearts can change if they repent and keep commitments!
I love you all! See you soon!
Elder Jorgensen
