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July 11: Fireworks and a knock knock miracle



Hello everyone!

Last p-day was pretty eventful. In my weekly report I talked about how difficult tracting is and how little success I've seen from doing it. Well...just a couple of hours after writing that email we went tracting and found 2 potential investigators. I'd like to explain a little bit how it happened.

We were driving and Elder Fabiano went to a street that felt good and pulled off to the side. We sat there for a few minutes to do some paper work, planning, and phone calls. It was a very warm evening and the sun was right in our faces, just beaming into the car. The AC in our car is really poor for some reason so it became uncomfortably hot real quick. The whole time I was thinking to myself why my companion doesn't drive down the street to a shady spot so we don't die in the car. Although I really wanted to say let's go to another spot, I never said anything. After about 20 minutes we finished what we had to do and got out of the boiling hot car to being knocking on doors. The first person we saw was a lady watering her plants just across the street from our car. She was very nice, we talked about the restoration and gave her a Book of Mormon and she became a potential investigator. Just down the street from her we found a man in his 30's doing landscaping. Turns out he's bumped into missionaries quite a few times recently and is looking to find the truth. We talked with him over an hour and got his info and gave him the Book. By the time we finished talking to him it was 9 so we headed back to the car. As we were walking back I told my companion. "It's interesting how the whole time we were in the car I was really hot and wanted to go somewhere else, but for some reason I didn't say anything about it." He responded, "He said ya I was feeling hot too but I had a feeling we needed to stay where we were." 

This experience is an example of the many types of miracles you see on a mission. Things happen here and there that teach you patience, faith, diligence, long suffering, kindness, hope, and charity. The spirit was telling me to be patient and stay silent so I didn't persuade my companion to move the car and the spirit was telling my companion to just stay put. I also find it interesting how this successful tracting experience happened just after I bashed about tracting in my email. I guess the Lord works in mysterious ways.

After that p-day miracle we enjoyed the July 4th fireworks on the American side, and yes, they were better than the Canadian fireworks (why? because they spent more money on it).  I also went on exchanges Wednesday and Thursdaywhich was fun. I stayed in the Soo with the other Elder. Today, we are going to play disc golf with a couple of guys in the ward so that should be a fun p-day activity (it's called disc golf not frisbee golf because we use discs which are bit heavier than frisbees). 

Have a sweet week!

Elder Johnson

Pictures:
1. Lake Huron
2. A member in the branch showed us one of his bee hives. I got stung I think 7 times. Just kidding, that doesn't happen unless you really bother the bees.



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