"Cleansing of the Inner Vessel"

(Note from Mom) Every Sunday I look forward to getting a text from Sister Lester titled "Sunday Smiles". This week she sent this picture of Elders Northrup, Rankin, Jones, Ashcraft and her cute son!

Well, this was definitely one of the more successful weeks of the mission!! We got 5 new investigators and one on date for July 7th so that was pretty good!! I know numbers don't really mean anything, I'm just glad that the Lord see's our efforts and wanted to give us a pleasant surprise!

Tuesday was a real good day!! We had an awesome District meeting on Consecration and becoming Master Teachers/Ministers!! I had a feeling from the spirit to go on a bit of a surprise exchange with the Whitewater 1 Elders in their Area and it worked out really really well! Elder Chiu and I found a guy in their apartment complex named Ragu (yes like the pizza sauce). They are teaching him right now and he is progressing really well!! 

Wednesday was Arsome!! We found 3 new investigators and had really cool experience towards the end of the day! We felt bold and full of faith so we went to a more wealthy part of town and ended up finding a really cool guy named Floyd! He let us in his home and we taught him about the Book of Mormon! He is non-denom and hadn't attended church in a really long time! He said, "I feel right now, it would be really worth it to search out what yall believe in." We have an appointment with him tomorrow, please pray for him!

Thursday we had exchanges with the TT's!! I went with Elder Cranney for the last time (because he is dying in just a few weeks) and we had a real good time!! We were following up with potentials when we knocked into this lady named Brittany! We taught part of the Restoration on her porch and she said she would read the Book of Mormon ( one that she already had) so that was super awesome!! We are going back Thursday!!

Friday we painted a members deck for 4 hours so that was pretty exhilarating!! Later that night we were talking to some members after dinner about general conference talks! They brought up a talk that Pres. Packer did back in 2010 about how much the World needs cleansing, and about how the morals of the world would fall significantly in the coming years!! I think its called "Cleansing of the inner vessel." Go back and watch it!!

Saturday there was an event called Balloons at Fayetteville!! We tried to get many a missionaries there, but there wasn't a whole lot of success!! It was funny how many stares we were getting from people!! Man, I am really going to miss that when it's time to head home!!

Sunday was a gucci one!! It sounds as though us missionaries wont be allowed to be in Ward council any longer from here on out from the bishopric changes! That is just too bad, I wish people would understand that we are here to help, even if we just sat in for a few minutes!!

I invite yall to study that talk from Pres. Packer and what it tells us about the 2nd coming and how we can prepare for it!!

Love yall

Elder Northrup

Bro Okonkwo-favorite member in the ward (watch his mormon message)