Once in a while, we send Eric a survey to get him to answer some extra questions. We ask him to just finish it and then send it back in the mail. This time with the survey, we got a couple extra small letters, so I typed them up and put them in.
Also, the mission had a zone conference and I have attached a picture of all of the missionaries in the whole mission. Eric is on the back row. You can click on it to make it bigger.
Hi everyone. This is the written portion of my letter. In our ward, we do something called “outreach”. Once a month on Saturday, members of the ward, the missionaries, and the ward leaders get together at the church and go on exchanges to see less active members. We usually choose areas where there are less members that live in that area, because otherwise it is super hard to get people to go out of their way to see these people, but the ward works super hard. Many missionaries and others say it is the best ward in the mission. I can see why member work is unbelievable down here. I just need to take advantage of it. I went with Brother Keyser, the ward mission leader, and his wife. We went to four people’s houses. One person’s husband answered the door. He was very nice. His wife was a member, but he was not. He was very interested in coming to church and going to ward activities.
We had some investigators and less actives who came to the chili cookoff. It was a great event. We had a good experience when we went tracting in the Bradford’s neighborhood. We met a war veteran from the army. His name was bob Stytes. He is super nice. We passed by his house in the morning. He said that the Bradford’s had helped him with Genealogy a while back. We asked if he would be interested in continuing that. He said he would. We met with him at 2:00, a few hours later with Sister Bradford. He is very nice and we had a great conversation. His wife died not too long ago, and he has gone through chemo therapy for throat cancer, so he has had some rough times lately. He was very interested in continuing with genealogy, but he is not religious at all and doesn’t believe in God, so he wasn’t interested in hearing more about this message. But he did come to the chili-cookoff and he liked it a lot.
So I will tell you about the experiences I had with the spirit inspiring me to go certain places. The first week I was with Elder Chandler we went finding in the neighborhood that Jamani lives in. As we were finding , I felt impressed about two doors that were next to each other. I especially felt that way about the second door. Elder Chandler finished the finding session because we had somewhere to go after that, and I didn’t want to stop what he was doing, so I didn’t say anything. We were in the area again, and I felt the same thing. Time went on and I felt guilty that I hadn’t knocked. This week, we were on our exchange with McKendy, a Haitian youth, and on the way to an appointment, there were some Haitians in a conversation. We stopped and talked to them. They hadn’t heard about Mormons before and they had some questions. They agreed to sit down with us. We asked them where they lived and they told us that they lived in the corner house, the same one I felt very impressed to stop by. After that, I told Elder Chandler what I had realized and he told me that I should listen to promptings. We stopped by Junior’s, an investigator’s on that street from Trinidad. Then I told Elder Chandler about the other house I felt prompted to visit. We knocked and talked to a daughter and a mother. They weren’t Haitian, but they had both sat down with Elder George and Elder Shefford eight months ago. We have an appointment with them.
Elder Chandler told me, “I don’t care if we are going 65 miles down the street. If you feel prompted to go somewhere, tell me to hit the brakes!” I realize that I wasn’t doing the job, so I learned and knocked on the other one. I realized that I could follow the spirit and God would direct me if I asked and listened.
Love, Elder Seamons
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