Rocky Mount

So I have found out how much we bike every day! Are you ready?....... about 20 miles… everyday… haha and how do I know you may ask, well we had a car this week and let me tell you what; those missionaries that have cars full time don’t really know what missionary work is haha but I must say its been nice for just a little. And the other big news I have is that Elder Conners is leaving Rocky Mount tomorrow and I am…………drum roll………….. Still here as district leader. And o ya I'm training again… I defiantly have a little more on my plate then I have ever had but the Lord is really letting me grow, he is helping me so much and im grateful that he does this to me because it makes me even better, and helps me realize that I really have no idea what im doing… haha   but I go pick up the new missionary tomorrow and then the fun begins!

            The really big thing that happened this week was Crystal….. on Tuesday we had a very powerful lesson with her because the day before she told her dad that she wanted to join the church and he threw a bunch of anti at her and she had a lot of questions, and the lessons was all on her and what she believes and her testimony and at the end of the lesson she didn’t even bother asking us the anti-questions because she knew the church was true and the book of Mormon was the word of God, then she had her baptismal interview and did wonder full, and she said that she was getting baptized. But the next day she was texting us in the morning her favorite scriptures and things like that but then all the sudden we get a text saying that she can’t be baptized this week….. it was really sad…. Then her member friends jumped right on top of it and then we called and it turns out that she made a deal with her dad that if she came back from college in October and still wanted to do it then she could (she is 22 years old)…… and no matter what we asked or said she was very decided that this was the way it needed it to be. We later found out a big part of it was that the Dad told her if she gets baptized he was going to take her out of his will and stop helping her with college money. We have a lesson with her tonight and the members are really helping out. It is weird in a way  because it is no longer the missionary’s doing all the work and us asking for members help but its members helping their nonmember sister and doing all they can. One of the members (the one who we are having the lesson at with tonight) went thru the exactly same thing with his parents and is even the same age, religion, everything. It's so great and they are the ones inviting crystal over and getting everything ready! This ward is so great and I have no doubt that Crystal will be baptized it is just a matter of when…  I hope its when I'm still in Rocky Mount when she is.

            Also something really cool is that this week we were invited by a member to help move a non-member from one apartment to another, and all we had was a small truck and a lot of heavy stuff, but we did it and the best part was  1.)I didn’t get hurt this time haha and 2.) every time we droped off a load she would ask questions about the church and was very interested about it all then we would go get more stuff then come back and she would have even more questions, and then at the end we gave her our number and she said she wanted to have us over the next week for dinner then to learn more about Jesus Christ, the book of Mormon and prophets today. So im excited for that too!

            Well those were the big things in my week! I hope your all doing good and are safe! I love you and I hope you have a great day!

ELDER MAUGHAN