Hello everyone! I appreciate all the letters and e-mails, I love hearing about how things are going at home. This week was filled with some of the greatest joy and greatest disappointment I've ever felt. Welcome to being a missionary, right? So first of all we have an investigator with a baptismal date! The Elders felt good about tracting a street, that was out of their area, they just didn't realize it. But its this little old man, Frank, they taught him twice before they realized he was in our ward. So they passed him on to us. He is an interesting guy! He is really excited about the church, and he even came to church on Sunday! Then we met another girl tracting, April, she is a single mom and we taught her the first lesson and she seemed pretty interested in the church and learning more. We were really excited about her...and then Saturday Sister Hilbert called her to see if she was coming to church and basically...the phone call didn't go well. This is when sister Hilbert and I decided Satan is the WORST person in the world and we want him to go away forever!!! That was a really disappointing moment for me, luckily I have a great companion who can discern my emotions really well and always has helpful things to say. but the greatest most amazing miracle of the week was on Wednesday I answered the phone, a less active woman named Dawn called and told me her husband wanted to meet with the missionaries. I talked to her a little and set up an appointment for Friday, while Sister Hilbert was doing something else. Afterwards I said, "so this lady, named Dawn called and wants us to meet with her husband, who isn't a member I guess and so I set up an appointment for Friday." Sister Hilbert started freaking out! And made me repeat the conversation word for word. Apparently they tracted into this woman there first day here, like a year ago, and found this less active woman. She was a convert, then married in the temple, but her husband turned out to be a crazy abusive guy, very sad. So she left him and married a non-member who doesn't want anything to do with the church. She hasn't come to church in 11 years. He met with elders once, but it didn't go well. now, because of their son asking questions about God, he has sparked an interest in the church. His name is Adam, and we prayed all day the lesson would go well, and we'd know what to say. Turns out his 2 major issues is the trinity (that whole 3 seperate beings thing he isn't a fan of) and he doesn't believe in eternal families. A problem I didn't think I'd run into but, still, the gospel solves everythin. This was the first time I actually really taught a lesson. We flowed well together, I was listening to the spirit, it was totally amazing! Then I said the first vision, and just knew that he knew it was true. But I didn't know what to do with that knowledge. Luckily Sister Hilbert said to him, "Will you kneel down right now and pray and ask if Joseph Smith was a Prophet? If you do, I promise you will get an answer right now." Wow, man. I prayed so hard this would all work out..and guess what?!? It did! He got up and said, yes, its true. Joseph Smith was a Prophet. Ah! It was so cool you guys! He siad he still needs time before he decides to be baptized. Then of course, the most depressing thing was that they didn't come to church, like they promised they would, but the Lord is in all things. We know it will work out. Those are the most exciting updates from this week. I hope you're all doing well! I love you lots and lots! Have a great week!
Love Sister Pratt
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