Good Morning from beautiful Arkansas!
I absolutely love it here. It took some getting used to, but now I feel right at home. I guess there's something about 100% humidity that just gets better with time! The heat hasn't been to bad though and people are just the nicest. Even if they aren't interested in what we have to share, lots of people will offer bottles of water as we go. I'm sure grateful for it because it helps me stay hydrated!
This week has been a great one. One of the biggest things from this week is that we started teaching a group of friends! We have been teaching someone named Gail for quite some time now and she is just great. She is so intellectual and really is searching for the truth. She goes to Harding University. We visited her at work one day, because she said that one of her friends wanted to meet us. They were nice and we ended up saying hi and then going. A few days later we were texting Gail so that we could set up a time to read the book of Mormon with her. She said that she was busy doing homework at a coffee shop with some friends, but that we could come there and read with her and her friends if we wanted to. Of course we did! So we got on our way. It was a really cool coffee shop but we definitely got some questioning looks as to why two missionaries were in a coffee shop on a Sunday. We just smiled and waved as almost everyone's attention was on us as we walked through the doors. We sat down and had a great lesson though with Gail and two of her friends. They were both pretty interested and we exlained what the Book of Mormon is and why it's so important. We then planned a day that we were going to meet them at Gails house and read the book of Mormon and have a lesson with all of them! They said they would invite a few more friends to come.
So elder ogaard and I made fried chicken and Mac n cheese for everyone and met in order to teach and have a great discussion! It went super well and they all had a lot of interest. We have since then met with almost all of them and been able to answer some of their questions. It's been super cool to see all of them interested and progressing in the gospel.
Tonight we are all meeting at our bishops house for a family home evening with their whole family! It will be Gail and all her friends and bishops family. We are going to have dinner then watch the movie called Joseph Smith: Prophet of the restoration. We're really excited and hope this can be an amazing experience for everyone involved!
Really has been an amazing week full of miracles. The Lord is in this work and is guiding us as well as the people of Searcy to the truth. I'm so thankful for a loving Heavenly Father who wants all of His children to return to live with him.
That reminds me of a message we shared with a young family in our ward on Sunday. They have a 5 year old girl as well as one more on the way! It's an amazing family that is full of energy and want to serve. The mom is the relief society President and the dad is the ward mission leader! So we get to work with both of them a lot and they are such a blessing to us, the ward, and all those they work with.
We shared the message of how all of us lived with God before coming to earth and that we are all his children. We then encouraged them to share this message. The dad said that someone at work (he's a doctor) had been asking him about temples. We were able to give him a pamphlet explaining temples and has excited to share it with the other doctor he works with!
Overall a great week. There's so much more that I could share, but for now I'll leave you with those stories. The work is progressing and the Lord wants us on his side! It's our choice of if we will be a part of this amazing time.
Love you all so much.
Elder C.R. Anderson
1. Gail and Friends
2. The best view I've seen so far in Arkansas (there's not that many because it's super flat and there's TONS of trees)
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