It Was Lit!

This week was pretty awesome, we had 3 lessons, which is 3 more than we had last week! We had two lessons with the investigators we found last week and they both went really well. We taught the restoration to both of them. Steve, the first guy we taught accepted a copy of the BOM when we found him well when we went back for our return appointment he said, "I didn't get to read that much" and then went on to explain he had read 1st and 2nd Nephi, Jacob, ect ect all the way to the begining of Alma!! It was nuts. He wasn't able to make it to church on Sunday cause he works at the pentagon and had to work.  

The second lesson was with a kid named James. He is about to turn 18, at first I didn't think he was all that interested, but when we went back for the return appointment he had read the first 30 pages of the BOM, which doesn't sound all that impressive after hearing about Steve, but 30 pages is approximatly 30x more than anyone else reads when we have return appointments. So I'm excited about those two guys, we'll see where they go. The 3rd lesson was with another guy named Steve, me and elder newton found him a long time ago, we went back one night to follow up and see if he was still interested and he invited us in. We ended up having an hour long discussion. He is the nicest guy in the world, but he's southern baptist and believes very strongly in the trinity and the bible, he also thinks our beliefs about Christ and the Godhead are so far from the truth its leading us to perdition. So I was told in the nicest way possible that I'm going to perdition this week..... Turns out he hadn't read any of the BOM in between visits, so we challenged him to actually read the Book. were gonna follow up in a week or so. In other news transfer calls are this week and I am most likely going to get the boot. I have been in White Oak for 6 months so we will see what happens. It has also been dumping rain, and I mean DUMPING rain, buckets, cats and dogs, you name it. sooo much rain, but then like an hour later its sunny and more humid than you could ever imagine and then an hour later its back to pouring rain. I'm as confused as you are. 

Elder McArthur

district pic

fireflies!!! the best part about VA, there are so many, driving at night is like when Han and Chewy hit light speed there are so many fireflies.