Independence

 Georgia keeps getting greener

This will be pretty quick because I am typing on a phone today and it will probably take a really long time. 

We went over to Doug Brantley the 3rds house after pday ended last week!! He happened to be sitting on the front porch when we got there and we read 1 Nephi 8 and 11. He felt the Spirit hardcore! Prayers would be much appreciated.

Tuesday was our last district meeting with this group before transfers. It was good and spiritual!! 

Later that night we went to a Baptism for a ysa named Summer! Elder Rankin had taught her previously while he was in KSU, so it was cool to finally see her take those first steps in following Christ!!

Wednesday was Transfer day and Pres. And Sister Foote's last one. We weren't able to attend because we weren't being transferred but I wanted to go so bad. Everyone said it was super spiritual and at the end when Pres. Foote was crying everyone spontaneously started singing the army of helaman! They will be missed along with the other 30 missionaries that left!

Later in the evening we were following up with some potentials on a street and one guy was outside mowing his lawn. So much of me didn't want to talk to him, he had tattoos all over, he was big and Hairy as well! But I'm glad that we did because right when we were going to walk passed him the words of a talk from Pres. Monson came to mind. "See people as they may become." So we ended up walking up his driveway and started to talk to him! He was stoked that we decided to chat and he wanted us to come back and talk to his wife as well! This name is Michael, pray for him please!

Thursday, Friday and Saturday we had service....all the days! Thursday was basement cleanup. Friday was moving an investigator. And Saturday we helped build a fence. It was awesome though! It made up for the rest of the transfer not being able to do any service at all!

Yesterday (Sunday) was by far the best day of the week! Anybody who knows me knows that my favorite holidays are Easter and the 4th of July. The Fayetteville Stake had a independence day concert and it was incredible! I shed many a tears!! It is incredible how inspired the founding fathers were to help bring the Declaration of Independence into the light!

I love y'all tons!

Elder Northrup

Sunday Smiles

this is why they call this mission the Georgia 40 (40lbs+)