Tuesday we had a multi zone conference! It was ultimately good. Got a lot of spiritual insight on how we can move the work along. It was super good I loved it, something that really stood out to me, was how our faith as missionaries can affect other people being converted. Obviously they still have agency, but in a talk we watched, Neil Anderson was speaking. There was a super good quote that went something like "there is a power that can cause things to happen that need to happen. There is a power that can stir something in people's souls. My faith can cause somebody's soul, that is dormant but good, to awaken unto God." That really stood out to me. I realized while it may not always be the case, my faith can enable the spirit to stir somebody's soul. So I have really been working on increasing my faith. Good stuff. (: I love missionary work. At the multizone I also got to see all the homies, which was super fun.
One day we were out tracting this slightly countryside road, it was a beautiful day but it was just a kind of boring day haha. Nobody was answering and the couple people who were answering weren't interested. We knocked and street contacted for ages. We finally met this man who was acting really funny, he seemed like he wanted to rage at us or give us a hug at the same time. Maybe both. Anyways We just started saying something, can't remember what, and he invited us in. He is a major gospel scholar. He's got like a finity bibles and such. We talked for ages about Christ and the Book of Mormon stuff. He's definitely got some potential. We're going to have to show him through the bible though that the trinity is not true doctrine. Haha should be fun. All you gotta do is read your bible, it tells us that god and Jesus Christ are separate being. Anyways he's a great man and I'm looking forward to seeing him again. (:
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| This dude was so nice. Crazy good at guitar as well. Met him today in Chester. So sick. |
We met loads of new people this week and it was really great. We also met some people who were trying to wreck us. Haha we had a born again man come up to us and start tryna tear us apart. He pulled a DVD out of his bag to give to me. "Out of the kindness of my heart I will give this to your for no price." Cheers buddy. 😂 haha it was an anti DVD and I was like nah mate. Then his buddy came up and was filming us. He was asking me why I was a Mormon. I was like I'm not going to talk to you while your filming me just trying to attack me and my faith, if you actually want to talk you can put away the video camera and we can talk. He didn't know what to say but he put away the camera. 😂 we peaced outta there. They definitely weren't interested. Good times though. (:
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| Also, that's Elder Godfrey if there's any confusion as to who is my new companion. 😂 We got some haircuts as well today. (: |
Also we met with a girl named Bianca! We taught her the restoration and she seemed to really like it, she promised to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it so that's good stuff.
I had a great experience for me this week! A couple weeks into being here in Chester I got on a bus and felt like I should talk to this man. I sat in front of him cause it was the only seat. Satan was really working on me to get me to not talk to this man, so I put it off and put it off. When I was about to turn around and talk to him he got off the bus. I felt absolutely terrible that I hadn't talked to him. The prompting had kept getting stronger and stronger while I was on the bus as well. To say the least I felt bad. So this week! We got on a bus and there was this man! I was like no way I gotta talk to him. The only seat available was behind him. So I sat behind him. Satan must've really not wanted me to talk to him because all the doubts and fears came back. (Sharing the gospel can still be scary sometimes 😜) he had headphones in. The prompting kept getting stronger and stronger as well. So finally I just tapped his shoulder and we started talking. So nice and super funny. We didn't have much time but we had a good chat about god. Got his number and he peaced out. Happy to have gotten that second chance. (: it must have been really important for me to talk to him, because Satan was trying as hard as he could to get me to not talk to this man. So yeah, good stuff. (:
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| Me and Stiff. |
Also the delivery dads Elders Stiff and Cowdrey were in the area on Friday so they came over and had tea with us. So good to see them. Legends. (: me and elder Stiff were rockin some wheelies.
That's some of my week! It's been a good one! Me and elder Godfrey are loving it here in Chester and working hard! Love you all! Thanks for the support! Have a great week!
-Elder Edwards
-Elder Edwards
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| Stiff popping them wheelys in the flat like a legend. |
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