April 15, 2013 - Davenport

Dear Family:

 

Well it has been another week in Davenport.  This past week it has been very wet and windy.  Then for saturday and sunday it has been warming up.  But now for this next week we will be getting mor rain and some thunder storms.  Out here the thunderstorms are loud and happen a lot during the summer time.  I am honestly not looking forward to when it will be getting warmer.  The humidity here is also suppose to be the worst close to the river.  The work is doing good.  We are preparing our investigator for her baptism on the 27 of this month.  She is way excited and so are we.  This will be the first baptism that I have taught the whole time.  This thursday we will find out if she is ready with the interview.  Hopefully she will pass and I am confident that she will.  But if she doesnt pass we will work throught it and she will be baptized. 

 

This past week we got 3 new investigators to teach.  One of the investigators I am not really sure if we will continue to teach.  He likes to listen to us but I think he is just looking to us for information and not for the truth.  The other two seem like they could progress well.  We also were able to get a less active and her little family to church.  The kids are 8 and two 6.  The 8 year old says that she is wanting to get baptized but we are not really sure if we can teach her since she is not yet nine years old.  The Less active has not been to church since she was a teenager but she said that she really liked the meetings.

 

Well here is an interesting story for the week.  Me and Elder Bankhead were knocking on doors and we went to this one door and this older guy walks out.  "I could walk circles around you guys with the bible and you would not even change.  You guys have changed the bible so much and you should be ashamed of yourself.  I will not see you guys later."  Well with that we were speechless but Elder Bankhead said: "Well we love you!  See you later!"  Then the guy opened the door once more and replied: "I dont think so."  With that me and Elder Bankhead walked away and we laughed at the whole situation.  We honestly think he thought we were someone else because we have not at all changed the Bible.  We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly.  I honestly believe that.  The Bible has been changed around a lot but we have the most correct version of it along with a book that is another testament of Christ.  I know it.

 

I love you all!

 

Sincerely;

Elder Spencer Ariotti