Elder Garrett Michael Graybill

Oct 1st 2018

The transfer is over, and I am going to train next transfer and I am a little nervous. Anyways, life is going well. We had a lesson with Arturo, a man we are teaching, and it went fairly well. We went in with the plan of teaching the Restoration, but the Spirit lead us to teaching more about the Plan of Salvation and the Family Proclamation. I felt prompted to share Moroni 10:4-5 at the end. He read it out loud and I told him to think about what it meant. We sat in silence for 5 or 6 minutes. He finally answered and said he needs to pray and find out if it is true or not. This is exactly what the message is. He then said "everything that we had talked to him about earlier was going over the top of his head, but after reading that scripture, he felt peace and comfort and that he needed to listen." It was really cool! We struggled on finding new people. We had 14 lessons set up with people with interest and they all fell through. But we worked with some less actives this week and saw a lot of success. Javier was baptized like 4 years ago, but he hasn't been to Church in like 8 months. And before that it was 2 years. He came this last Sunday and he said he really felt the spirit and wants to keep coming to Church. We also met with another less active and she invited us to keep coming back every Saturday. So this next Saturday we are going to go and watch the first half of general conference with her. Then we will go over to Javier’s and watch the second half with him. Also Elder Heiner is going home along with Elder Beard (my first comp) and Elder Stringham. So that's really sad for us here but happy for them, they've been great missionaries and are ready for the next step in life. Since our area is huge, 2 stakes in size, we had some long drives with nice country side scenery. It's truly amazing how beautiful this Earth is. God has blessed us.

Today for pday, Elder Heiner and I went to this old school bowling alley, and it was so cool. It's like one of those that you see in the movies. Then we had lunch with the Woodburn Elders.

That's it for this week! Love y'all