Elder Northrup's Best 2 Years! "Preachin' to Peaches!": "I'll Go Where You Want Me To Go"

just for funzies

Well, I'm finna be transferred this coming Wednesday!! It was sad to say goodbye to some people already, but I know that the next Area is where I need to be!!

WGYSA BRANCH (Finna miss em)

Lane and Seth (Silly billys)

Last Sunday pick with the Apostle and his wife (sorry if that's apostate but its probs finna happen)

Bro Knox

Monday, we didn't know what to do for Pday so we just decided to go Proselyting! We will probably do the same thing today as well. It was cool though, we met with a couple solid'ish people last pday and talked about the Book of Mormon. LeeAnthony was reading quite often from the Book of Mormon, but was mostly just reading out of curiosity instead of trying find out if it was true. And Ashley still wasn't reading at all. So, as all the RM's can relate, I was pretty bold with the both of them...not overbearing, just bold. I can't really remember what I said, but I do remember the spirit very powerfully. They were pretty shocked after that experience, but we assured them that we only said it because of the love that we have for them and the Gospel. And it worked out well, they decided that they would read the Book in their little trio to know if its true.

Tuesday we had a pretty legit miracle!! It was super cold around 5pm when we were tracting in the ghetto part of Carrollton. There are a lot of fake people in the Ghetto that just say that they want us back and then we can never contact them again, so I was a little bit skeptical of going there but we went nonetheless. Towards the end of the knocking sesh, we were walking towards the car when a guy started walking and yelling at us from his driveway saying, "are the mormons (members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter~Day Saints) way the heck out here?!? That aint the them, it can't be." His name was AJ and we talked to him for a solid 30 minutes about the Restoration and our purpose as missionaries. He was pretty stoked on it all so we gave him a Book, set up an appointment for Thursday, and went on our way!!

Wednesday was pretty sweet! We had a bunch of appointments that fell through but of course the one that didn't was with Ashton. She has become one of the most solid people that I have ever taught. For these last 3 weeks, everytime she has seen us in the library or anywhere she has sat down and asked questions from her reading or from what we taught her previously. One of the coolest moments was when she said that she has felt more peace in these last 3 weeks than every before. Every Doctrine and Principle is resonating with her, as soon as she knows the Book of Mormon is true, she will commit and make the step to Baptism. And guess what?? This all happened because a young bro from the YSA Branch was open and willing to share his testimony of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ AND invited her to learn more. He was looking for opportunities to share the Gospel. I would just invite the solid one or two people that are still reading my emails to do the same, to follow his and the Saviors example.

Anyway (Missionary Rants). Thursday morning we met with AJ again. We read the Introduction and first chapter of the Book of Mormon, explained a bit more in depth, and invited him to read and pray about it!! He is super solid, but he is leaving out of town for the next 3 weeks, so that kinda stinks. But he did say that he would like to visit the Church when he gets back (because he likes the idea of an unpayed clergy).

On Friday we met with Caroline for the first time (even though I have been unconsciously seeing her all over campus for the last 6 months...*facepalm* to myself). But she had a lot of great questions and hopefully received some answers too. Yesterday we got a text from her saying that she was in Ch. 20 of 1st Nephi. WHAAAAT?!!??!? We had a Major freakout in the middle of tracting!!

On the same day we met with a guy named AJ. He is a big hoss football player bro. We didn't find out until we actually sat down with him that he was going to try to play for BYU, so he already knew a ton about the Church and the beliefs.

So that I don't go into too much detail, I guess you could say that we found and taught a ton of solid people this last week and now I am leaving them! I am grateful for the peace that the spirit brings because otherwise I would probably be really angry right now!

But it's all good in the hood!

Lastly, we went to the Temple with Mason and Catrina, the Whipples, the Schillemats, and Elder Isaksen. It was really cool for them to feel the spirit as they were in the Lord's House. They are even more pumped to actually go through the Temple when the time is right!!