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| Elder Woolley & Elder Bolinder |
Purple People Eaters!
Hola fam! This week marks my 4th transfer here in the
Mankato, and it's off to a wonderful start.
Exciting news from this week... Tengo un hijo!! On
Wednesday we drove up to the cities and I picked up my new trainee, Elder
Woolley! He is a great missionary already and from Riverton, Utah. Surprisingly,
my first companion from Utah so far on my mission! Oh, and he is English
speaking so I am "zebra" training. It's been a blast!
Other news from this week, the Vikings are in town! Great
news if you're a missionary looking for a sea of people to contact to discuss
the gospel. Bad news if you are a Green Bay Packers fan caught in a sea of
purple people eaters.. (me) hahaha. But I guess I've really taken to heart
God's commandment to "Love your enemies" because I'm truly growing to
love all the people here! ...just not their football team😂.
Haha jk
For about a week now, the Vikings have been doing their
summer football training camp at MSU. They are here for another week and a half
or so, so we have lots of time chunked out to roam campus next week! This is
the last year they will be here too, they've been doing it in Mankato for 52
years, but next year will be moving it to the cities in their new practice
facility to be built. We went there on Saturday and had some really good
conversations about the Book of Mormon and what we do as missionaries for
people. We talked with about 12 or so people and it was pretty successful!
We've also had some solid experiences taking Elder
Woolley out tracting haha. A highlight from this week: We felt inspired to go
to a specific street and tract an apartment building. The last door we knocked
on, we found Stefanie! We showed her a video of the plan of salvation and bore
testimony to her of the peace it brings us. She has been to our church in the
past for weddings and funerals but this really seemed to spark her interest! So,
we got her number and hope to meet with her next week. We found another new
potential investigator from a service project we did on Friday. One of our
investigator’s friends works with homeless people and helps them find
affordable apartments and furniture to have a place to live. Well, long story
short, she called us and we got to help move his furniture from the salvation
army to his new apartment! His name is Lym and he's from Africa and is a super
humble guy. We talked to him about his experience with Christian churches in Africa
and how we are also Christians and help people grow closer to Christ. He said
he would be open to visits! Another awesome contact from this week.
Yesterday we had a pretty sweet miracle. After dinner, we
were heading out for some stop-bys before our appointment with an investigator.
We walk out the door of the apartment complex and I reach down to grab las
llaves (the keys) and.. No keys! Dang! We're locked out. So now we can't get
back in the apartment or use the car to get to our appointment haha. So, we had
to sacrifice and travel how they do down in South America, the old fashioned
way - on foot! We planned a route to stop by some people on the way during our
50-minute trek and had some pretty good contacts along the way actually! Then
we had a powerful lesson with Pam, and speaking of purple she is absolutely
obsessed with it! Literally everything she owns is purple. Purple house, purple
car, purple chairs, purple carpet, and of course, purple hair! Lol. She's super
awesome, though, and really receptive. We taught her more about the restoration
of the gospel through the prophet Joseph Smith and invited her to be baptized!
She unfortunately wouldn't commit to a date, but committed to pray for an
answer from God. We're going to continue working with her to help her realize
she already has a testimony of the gospel, she just needs to connect the dots!
I love all of you and hope you have an amazing week. I
love being a missionary, and I love this gospel! I know that Christ lives and
loves you! CuÃdense😊
-Elder Bolinder
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