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Monday, April 30, 2018 - Always follow the first impression

Well, this week was super good! Especially yesterday. It was so much fun. I love being back here in Midvale! Anyways, today is kind of gloomy, it is trying to decide whether it wants to rain or to show. Guess we won't be using bikes tonight! Haha

Well, we arrived to some certain apartments one day, forget which day it was, but anyways as we were putting up our bikes and locking them to go visit people I saw a young woman across this pond sitting at the foot of a tree on her phone. I felt an impression to go visit her, but we decided to go visit other people. Well, we passed by her two more times within about an hour and a half to 2 hours and so on the third time I'm like, "I gotta go talk to her." Elder Blount didn't want to cause she looked American, but he glumly came along. So we got to her and I started talking in English, but she looked confused, so I transferred to Spanish and she was Hispanic! Well, she was on her phone, with her mom, you know how some Hispanic moms can be, probably, so we told her we will come back in a few minutes. Well, dad to say, we came back about 20 minutes later! I knew she wasn't going to be there, so we weren't surprised when she wasn't but we are pretty sure she was waiting for us for several minutes and eventually got cold (it was pretty cold, and the sun was down by then) so she went inside. Well, we don't have an address or a phone number for her, just a name. But if the Lord knows she is ready she will cross paths with us again. 

On Friday we did a blitz splits with 6 other elders. I went with our district leader and we went to knock some sketchy apartments. But our last visit was pretty funny. We were talking with some people outside their house and you could tell by the look, the smell, the sound, that they were borrachos (drunk). And our district leader told them that they probably shouldn't be doing that because it is really bad for their health! Super bold! It was pretty funny, we had a good laugh after that.

Anyways, last night. One of our recent converts, Jhonny, who is someone that I helped baptize back when I was here the first time, came out with us and he is a beast! We were knocking on this one guy's door hoping he would be there and he wasn't so we started to leave. But Jhonny asked us who lives in the apartment next to him, and Elder Blount said that they weren't interested at all. We decided to knock it anyways. Turns out, the people who lived there moved out 2 weeks ago and there was a less active member from Mexico living there with his kids! The oldest two of his kids have already been baptized, and he has a 10 year old son that hasn't been baptized yet but he said that he wants him to be baptized and that he wants to start going to church but that he didn't know where to start! We are super excited, we basically found a miracle baptism because one of our recent converts acted on a spiritual prompting! Like I said, what a beast.

Hebrews 13:6 

-Élder Wilkes

Elder Blount and I

with Jhonny





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