Howdy y'all!
So, working with Elder Peek has been pretty awesome. We get along well, and the missionary work is a bunch of fun.
We met a Ukrainian family too, and that was pretty interesting. The father was kind of trying to disprove our Church, but he wasn't bringing up anything anti. He was mostly just saying that we don't know everything now, and we will all learn more about everything after we die. He and his family are Pentecostal, so they believe in the Trinity and stuff. We are going back tomorrow, so hopefully they are open to reading the Book of Mormon and finding out for themselves that what we say is true!
We tracted into a guy named Eugene Gentry last Thursday. He is a black guy in his late 50s or so, and he is awesome. We told him that we share our message about Jesus Christ, and he told us that he has faith in Jesus Christ and he knows that Christ died for him and for everyone. He actually started crying after he said that, and it was a really cool experience to see how much of a testimony that he already had. He told us that we could come back the next day, so we set up a time and told him goodbye. The next day we came back, and he invited us in and offered to make us sandwiches and stuff. Super nice guy. After that, he basically said that he did not want to waste any of our time since he already knew Christ is his Savior. We started sharing our message about the Restoration of the Gospel, and most of the time he just sat quietly listening. We told him that we have modern-day prophets today, and he said that he wants to hear the Prophet so that he can find out for himself by listening and seeing what the Prophet does to know of he was called of God. We told him that we have General Conference this next weekend, so he said that he would listen to it. He asked us how he had not heard of this before, and we told him that is why we were talking to him. As we testified of the Book of Mormon and how the fulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ was restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith, I felt the Spirit so strongly. He said that he would read the Book of Mormon and pray about it, and we set up an appointment to come back this next Thursday. There are few times in my life when I have felt the Spirit that strongly, and it was amazing.
General Conference this weekend is going to be so awesome! It is the start of suit-coat season, so we are going to start wearing suits every day instead of just on Sundays. Should be pretty fun while we are riding around on our bikes!
Love you all!
Elder Nielsen
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