Week 19: Great Falls, VA "Be careful with what you're doing!"

Hello hello!!!

I hope you all had a great week!!!! And I hope you told your dad that he is the bestest ever! Love you Papi!!!!!

 CONGRATULATIONS JORDAN & MIKAILA!!!!!!!!!!!

                            

You guys are the best!!!

Also, because it happens before next Monday........

HAPPY 27TH ANNIVERSARY MOM AND DAD!!!!!!!

                                       

This week was pretty good! We met with Mariana, who is getting baptized next week!!!! We have to meet with her pretty often these next 2 weeks, but her baby is due mid July, so we gotta get it done before that happens! She's progressing really well! My new comp is gonna have a baptism their first week here, lol!!

Nevin didn't come to church.... again.... idk what it's gonna take. She would be doing so much better if she came to church! And she would totally love it!! Her lessons have gone well though. She reads everything we give her and love it! One things she told us was that her daughter, who was baptized a year ago in Maryland, told her that anytime she feels depressed or upset, she reads the Book of Mormon and it brings peace and calmness. Nevin was kinda confused by that. She asked what in the Book that she read. What specific did she read to feel comfort and peace? We told her it wasn't anything specific, that's just the power of it! She was still kinda confused, but that's okay. We're working on it 

Earl is doing really well! He is getting so names and a especially his wife's to take to the temple end of this month. It's gonna be awesome!

Story for the week. We were working in a neighborhood on Saturday and we walked up to this older guy that was sitting in a wheelchair next to his side door. We started talking to him and he was super nice! He told us he is Christian and goes to a bible church. (They are all over! There is one close to our apartment and it traffic is rediculous when they finish their services! The pastors hate Mormons!) Anyway, as he's telling us this, his Son comes to pick him up and he gets out of the car to talk to us. He says he's a pastor at one of these Bible churches and asks if were Mormons. We tell him ya, and then he goes off on us! He tells us how we don't put Christ on a high enough pedistal, and how were wrong! Then he points to the Book of Mormon I'm holding and says, "And that isn't the word of God! Only the Bible is!" We just kinda stood there as he told us how wrong we were. Then she shakes our hand and says, "I respect you, but you're wrong! Be careful with what you're doing!"

I hope you all have a great week! Love you and pray for you all the time!

Love, Elder Duke

Pics

1. We just stroll around and eat everything!

2. The Richardson's. They have a daughter that just left to Russia.

3. The Rhee's. They have a son in England. The are awesome and are moving to Berlin soon. He works for the "State Department" ;)

4,5. The elders in the Zone this transfer.