Hope you all had a good week and are enjoying the most wonderful time of the year! It's supposedly December, but I think Virginia forgot and skipped right to spring because it has been 40+ and rainy all week! And this next week will be the exact same. But warmer! It's hard to get into the Christmas spirit when it's pouring rain...
But anyway! It was another pretty good week! We had a few lessons with Ken. He's progressing. Slowly, but he's getting there! We're just trucking along with him.
We had a lesson with Ana with Brother Mulladjanov. (He's from Uzbekistan) He's a killer teacher! He went on a mission like 10 years ago, but he's got a crazy greenie fire! Its hard to understand Ana somtimes because she doesnt use pure ASL signs, but Bro M was picking it up super quick and did an awesome job helping her understand!
Our other people kinda dropped off the map this week... But this next week will hopefuly be good! It's gonna be hard cause Christmas, but we got Faith!
Miracle that happened this week! So there's this guy we meet named Jeanpierre (His name sign is JP, so we just call him that). We met him a few weeks ago at our branch Christmas party we invited him to. Well, since then he hasn't been responsive to texts, so we decided to drop by on Friday, but we realized we don't have a complete address. We have a street and apt number, but no building number... So we called the sisters who referred him to us to see if they had met him before, and knew where he lives. They didn't know, and had never met him. They've only had contact through text a few times. Anyway, so after we call the sisters, we text him again, and he responds! He asked us if there were any events happening soon that he could go to. The sisters had mentipned that they had a baptism the next day, so we call them again, about 30 minutes after the fist call, to see when and where to baptism was so we could invite JP. So we call the sisters again, and right as they answer, Sister Clark was like, "Did you know that God is real?!" Right before we called, they ran into JP in front of his apartment complex! They talked to him for a bit and invited his to their baptism and got his full address! So he came to the baptism on Saturday, even though he was super late. But that doesn't matter, we got a good contact with him! And Sister Clark killed it talking with him after the baptism! We gave him a Book of Mormon, and she just bore her testimony and told him that he needed to read it! He was kinda like, "Ya, maybe I'll check it out..." But she wasn't taking anything less than a yes! So she just kept going until he commited to read it! Me and Elder Pauly were just like, "Ya. Ditto!" It was great! And yesterday, JP messaged the sisters and hey chatted for a little. They told him he needed to go to church, ad he said he would come this week. So hopefully we can get meet with him sometime this week, and get him to church on Sunday!
We did have a pretty funny night on Wednesday. So we got locked out of our apartment, for the 3rd time... Normally we just use an old gift card I have in my wallet to get in, but this time we were back for the night and I had already changed and put my stuff away so I didn't have my wallet cause we were just taking out the trash. So we were stuck... and the phone was in the apartment... So we decided the only way in was to climb up to our 3rd floor balcony. So Elder Pauley climbed up the corner of the building near our apartment onto the balcony below ours. Then he got ontop of the railing and grabbed the railing of ours and pulled himself up. It was pretty great! But it was even funnier because we had talked about climbing up it earlier that day.
Twas a good week here in Virginia. Hoping this week next week turns out a little better for our investigators!
Love you and miss you all! Have a wonderful week and enjoy the Christmas season! Keep being the best and loving the Lord!
Love, Elder Duke
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