On Monday, after p-day was over, we were able to go and see the Mcgees again. Man they are so funny and awesome I love them!!! Hahaha fun story real quick: so Monday was my "click" day (the day I hit another month on the mish) and to celebrate we went to DQ to get a blizzard and I got the "Cookie Jar" blizzard which is on the DQ "secret menu." YOU SHOULD GET IT ITS SO FANTASTIC! Never getting any other kind of blizzard again!! :D Tuesday we had zone conference in Des Moines! I got to see Elder Deeds again and talk to him!!! Man I miss Des moines! But zone conference was awesome! President and Sister Jensen and the Assistants are all so inspired! The Spirit was so strong with all of the trainings we received. :) Then our zone leaders both came to Indianola for exchanges! Elder Sites interviewed Jacob for baptism and he passed! Then Elder Carlson and I went knocking and we were led to 2 new investigators! We met them in an apartment complex hallway and they told us to come in. Their names are Joshua and Emily and they are both 19, engaged, and live together. Emily was really accepting but Joshua was a little more skeptical and had A LOT of questions which was good. Almost every single one of his questions was answered by the Restoration and we are going back to see them tomorrow and teach the Plan of Salvation!! The cool thing was at the beginning Joshua was almost like angry at us for some reason, he just seemed really ticked off, but as we went the Spirit softened his heart. It was awesome! On Wednesday, Elder Carlson and I were finally able to contact Nancy! She has been a potential investigator for a while that we haven't been able to get a hold of. We were able to teach her the Restoration and it was an awesome lesson! Although i don't think we taught the Apostasy as clearly as we could've because she just didn't understand it well. But we are addressing that when we meet with her later this week. :) We also met this really cool 27-year old Pentecostal lady named Gabbie and she is a boss! It was only brief contact after we knocked on her door but we set up an appointment for later in the week.
We went back home for lunch but as we were going. we felt like we should go back. So we did and we were able to teach her the entire Restoration on the door step and she was extremely accepting of it! Later she told us that she'd seen missionaries knock on her door before, but never until now had she ever felt like she should open it! It was such a miracle!!! On Thursday, we went down to Centerville (a small little town about 2 hours away in our district) and went on exchanges with the Centerville elders! It was a total blast!!!!!!! I went with Elder Houston and Elder Homer went with Elder Smith (fun fact: he trained Elder Deeds). Elder Houston and I had a blast! We met some......interesting people thats for sure. Haha we knock on this one door and the lady goes, "Oh I'm not interested but the boys out back might be." So we go to the back and there are two five year old boys playing in the dirt! Elder Houston and I looked at each other and then just lost it!! Hahahahaha it was the best! We went to a lesson with one of their investigators, a nice lady named Laura, with Sister White (their branch president's wife) and we taught Laura and her son Tim about the Book of Mormon. It was an awesome lesson and Sister White bore a powerful testimony! She then invited them both to church and was like, "I'll sit with you and show you around and help you out in any way I can!" It was sweet!! On Friday we made contact with one of the drunk guys from the other week, his name is Jesse we found out, and he was sober and looked like a completely different person! We set up an appointment for the next day with him and he promised not to be drunk. On Saturday, we got permission to go up to Des Moines for Cecilia's baptism! Elder Deeds and I were the ones who originally found Cecilia. It was an awesome service! Cecilia and four of her kids all got baptized!! After that, we drove back down to Indianola to go talk to Jesse about the Restoration.
He was extremely drunk on vodka sadly. :( We did our best trying to answer all of his......interesting questions but we eventually just said, "Well we've gotta go sorry see ya later." He also randomly lit up two cigarettes while we were there so we had to go and change our clothes because the smell was pretty bad. As we were walking back home that night, we saw Bryan (a former) cleaning his car so we stopped and talked to him for a bit. He invited us in and talked to us for a bit. He is awesome! He has met with missionaries before in the past so he knows everything that we do and teach. He tended to dominate the conversation a bit with talking about the corruptness of everything but we were able to just simply invite him to come to church the next day. On Sunday Bryan actually surprised us and came to church! He showed up in a suit and tie and everything! He really enjoyed sacrament meeting but he had to leave halfway through Sunday School. But he told us he enjoyed "trying out our church" again. :) After church the branch had a soup and chili lunch that we all had. IT WAS AMAZING!!! My favorite was this like tomato soup and chili combination thing that tasted fantastic! Then later that evening, we felt like we should knock this really nice rich part of town where people had previously been not interested and we met TJ! He is an awesome college student who believes in Christ and is just a boss! But sadly he was only in Indianola with family for Spring Break but he lives in Cedar Rapids. So we were able to get his information and we're sending it to the mission office so they can send it to the Cedar Rapids missionaries!! Hahahahahaha one of my favorite excuses someone has given us at the door approach happened yesterday! Quote: "Yea come back some other time cuz I'm watching the game right now." I love people they crack me up!
Love,
Elder Logan Flake
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