hola!
this last week has been a great week here! things are finally back to normal after the holidays and its awesome. we have still been looking and working to try to find people to teach and baptize this week. it was a good week though we found alot of great people so there will be some great things coming in the next few weeks.
last night we had a really neat miracle, we stopped by one of our former investigators, we dropped her a while back because she couldnt give up smoking and coffee. we felt prompted to stop by yesterday and we set up a lesson with her and right before we left she said" by the way i think im ready to give up smoking and coffee" we just about died we were so excited! we had been having a rough week and we haven't been teaching any progressing investigators and just hearing her say that was so exciting. she truely needs the gospel in her life, her husband just died a few months ago and she needs the gospel in her life. god truly has been preparing her.
also we had another really neat experience this week too. we were on our way home from another area in the zone and we were driving into town when elder aiken pulled in to a parking lot of this shopping center in downtown issaquah. he remembered a guy we had taught a few months back. this man lives in a little apartment on top of a bar. to get to it you have to walk around the bar up a dirty set of stairs to his door. we went up there and he answered the door. he smiled and let us in, we talked with him for a second and then he said he had some people we needed to pray for. he took us back into his smoke filled apartment to a room and parted the curtain that was used as a door. there was a bunch of homeless people there, but they weren't to excited to see us. so we went back out and taught our investigator. when we said the closing prayer one of the kids that was in the other room ran over and sat down for the prayer. he said he had been listening to our lesson the whole time and wants us to come back and teach him! it was so neat to see a lost soul searching for god and do anything to find him.
i was a great week i have learned so much in my time as a missionary and i know god loves his children and wants them to return to live with him again.
i hope you all have a great week!
love you
elder berry
elder berry
