Last Pday was a good time! We went up to Douglasville to have an Elders Pday with the other peeps in the Zone! I didn't get to play many sports myself because I kinda sorta injured my knee playing Ultimate Frisbee on Campus with some UWG Students a few nights before. {TO MOM:} I don't know if my mission nurse had told you this earlier, but I guess better later than never!! :) But it was a good time seeing all the Elders again having a good time!!
After Pday we had a lesson with John Kelley and we actually invited Gerald as our Teamup! It was super cool because whatever concern John would bring up, Gerald would testify that through the Gospel of Jesus Christ and through his Church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), he would be empowered through his trials. He (Gerald) even said, "I'm not afraid of telling people that I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints!!" I was all like, "WHAAAT THE GARBAGE!! THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!" He would even teach by the same principles that PMG teaches us to as missionaries!! The dude is so ready for the Church!! He is on Date and ready for Baptism this coming Saturday!!! YEEET!!
Tuesday we had a Zone Conference with E. Costa of the Seventy!! I am very A.D.D. in meetings so it was pretty hard to sit still for that long, but it was incredible nonetheless!! Gerald actually came to the Conference too, he said it was hard to sit through it all but he went up and talked to E. Costa personally after the first half to thank him for what he said!! The dude is incredible!!
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| E. Costa Zone Conference Lunch |
Because we were in Douglasville for the Conference we just asked the Elders for a little exchange before heading down to Fayetteville again for another MLC with E. Costa!! We had a good time with those guys!!
Wednesday, like I said, was MLC day with E. Costa! I actually learned so much about how to become a better leader in that meeting! And not only from E. Costa but also from Pres. and Sis. Clayton!! I am feeling so blessed to be apart of this work and to be serving in the best mission in the World!! ;)
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| Exchange with Elder Finley, the MAN!!! |
They had to leave early so we had another great lesson with Gerald at his apartment!! We reviewed the first half of the Plan of Salvation and then taught the rest of it! We also watch the Refiners Fire video, and something interesting happened. Geralds roomate, Dylan, was listening in on the video and was very curious about it! He asked Gerald all about the video and what we taught him. YEET!! Hopefully he will allow us to teach him too, that would be way sick!!
On Friday and Saturday we met with this young guy named Jesse Lay! In the first lesson we had he was searching up some stuff on the Book of Mormon, so we just told him that he needed to read and pray or we would stop meeting with him! So these past 2 days were really effective because he actually did what we asked him to do, that's a first!
He is a really cool kid, he has a strong testimony of his Savior, but he also said that if he found that the Book of Mormon was true, he would be baptized and become a member. He currently goes to the Church of Christ, so that will be interesting when his parents find out!!
Saturday afternoon we had to travel to Hiram to do a Baptismal Interview! I was able to do that interview for a lady named Gloria!! It was a pleasure, she has a strong testimony of the Church and is very excited for her Baptismal Date!!
We had planned to meet with Gerald after the Interview, and we did, but as we were coming we got a text saying that his mom was going to be there as well! I guess she had seen such a miraculous change in him that she wanted to know how we helped him believe in God. It was pretty cool! We showed them a video called, 'Like a Broken Vessel" and afterwords she had a ton of questions. We told her to come to Geralds Baptism and all her questions could be answered!! Cool stuff!!
We had another good 6 hours of Church yesterday!! It is getting easier week by week! I do enjoy the spirit of being around members so I definitely cannot complain one bit!!
And that brings us to the now! We are going to play some ping pong with Jesse Lay at Campus in a bit so that should be a good time!!
***COMMITMENT***
Something that E. Costa was training us on was doing Member Missionary Work. He was trying to teach us how to get the members involved in doing Missionary Work! So this is the invite...
Invite someone or a family to your own FHE for tonight or another night in the coming weeks. This individual or family can be non-members, members, Less Actives, etc. The whole point is that as member missionaries YOU need to also invite OTHERS to come unto Christ! I have seen many blessings come from doing missionary work, and this is a simple way to help others strengthen their relationship with the Lord and in turn you will strengthen your own relationship with Him being an instrument in His hands!! :)
As always...
Love yall,
Elder Northrup
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| Stripling Warrior |
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| Elder Davies exchange, yeet! |
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| Steaks for breakfast!!!! HAHA nah, jk jk! |
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| BWW's for the Win!!!!! |
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| BELIEVERS BLVD: I just had to |
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| Sunday Smiles from Sister Lester |
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| Received this picture in a text from a member of the Villa Rica Ward... the Seawells. He said that Elder Northrup was on an exchange Saturday and did some service for them. "Let us thank you and all those that influenced him to serve a mission. He shared with us while we were eating lunch how much his family meant to him. He said he realized on his mission how important family is more now than ever before. He is a great young mon |
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