Hunger to learn!

We started off the week great with a lesson Monday night in the Cooks (Young family we met several weeks ago that have been looking for a church) home with a members family present. We were able to teach the Cooks the Restoration and they said that they would be baptized once they come to know the Book of Mormon is true through reading and prayer. They were super interested in what we had to share with them and they asked great questions as we taught them. The members also did a great job of bearing testimony and sharing personal experiences. This was a lesson we were able to walk away from knowing the spirit had touched their hearts. Sadly a few days later they texted us and said they do not want to continue to learn and that they found another church that they like. Hopefully they will have another chance in the near future to hear and accept the message. Later Monday night we drove down with a part member couple Jolie (Investigator) and Daniel (Member) to San Antonio to spend the night with are zone leaders. They were able to drop us off. During the drive to San Antonio we were able to get to know them both a little bit more since they have recently moved in to Kerrville. There are many concerns and things that we will have to help Jolie with but she has a great desire to learn and one day be baptized. This will be a longer process but hopefully she will continue to have this hunger to learn and change through repentance.

Towards the end of the week we finally were able to contact the Parkers in the ward that have shown interest in coming back to church. The father also wants to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood so that he can bless his family and others. We had a short lesson with only the father on Saturday night. He is a recent convert of about 3 years now and it seems as though he has been less active most of that time. We shared the Restoration and focused on the first vision. He remembered it a little bit from when the first missionaries shared it with him. The next day being Sunday he showed up to church for the first hour. It was great to see him attend church for the first time in a while.

We have been working very closely with the ward council. We visited different members that they wanted us to go by and also we had the opportunity to go on visits with the first and second councilor in the Bishopric to those that have been on their minds. It has been great supporting and helping as much as possible the members in the ward. President Polley has mentioned several different times that as we work more than ever with the members and help them in their callings that people will show up to church and will come to us asking if they can be baptized. I believe that miracles still happen today and I hope if it is the will of the Lord that we might be able to experience one like it soon as we continue to do all we can to find, teach, work with members, and baptize.

We have been lucky here in Texas as it hasn't been super hot yet. We have been in the low 90's a couple times this week but the weather has been pretty nice. I am sure that it will soon get hotter and hotter as June and the summer months come. This week we did serve a few times for a non-member lady. She is super nice but seems to be pretty set in her catholic ways. It was still fun and enjoyable helping her pour and spread mulch over her new garden. On Tuesday when we had the San Antonio Conference I spoke with several of my past companions and members from the "The Austin Zone". It has been fun creating great friendships not only with members and investigators but especially other missionaries.

"We do not have to be perfect, but we need to be good and getting better."