Hello everyone!! Elder Betker here...
So first of all I am sorry for the late letter this week! We had a temple trip today so we didnt have pday on monday! So the temple is an hour away and our rides car broke down as he was coming back to get us so that set us back a few hours as well:( So anyway yea thats why this is such a late letter!!
Well I guess let me start with the beginning of the week last week... So Elder Hansen and I were out on our bikes and we saw a woman in her driveway watering her flowers.. so we stopped and introduced ourselves and she seemed so happy to talk to us!! Well let me tell you, we were wrong! After about 5 minutes of us talking to her she told us that she was a Bornagain and she began telling us all of her experiences! So she starts out by saying that early in her life (maybe 20's) she had an experience where Jesus came and took her out of her body and took her into heaven and she saw the power of God! Then she said she saw satin blow up in heaven and jesus took 10 demons out of her! So she then goes on to talk about how when she was put back into her body that when she opened up the bible, God took her hand and flipped it through every page and everything she had just experienced was glowing! Let me tell you, this woman was Crazy!!!! haha so anyway we went on to say that we believed in the Bible as well as she did and then introduced the Book of Mormon to her! At first she was saying that she read the book and was almost denying that there was a God because of it and she burned it!! ha we explained to her that those were evil spirits telling her that the book wasnt true and we invited her to read it and pray about it to know from the "Spirit that she knew from her past experiences" that it was a true book! She then goes on to say that we were decieved and we couldnt determine a good spirit from and evil spirit and she looked E. Hansen and I right in the eyes and said "When I look at myself I see the spirit in me, when I look at you two I dont see any form of spirit in you!!" hahaha let me tell you she was DECIEVED!!! Well I could go on and on and on about this woman and our HOUR AND A FREAKING HALF discussion with her but I got much more to write! But just know that Elder Hansen and I worked our miracles and read some powerful scriptures from the BOM with her and she actually took another copy of it! haha that woman gave me such a headache! If only you were there to experience it!! She was out of her mind!
So there is really no new news with Tabitha and Pam... They are still reading and praying and meeting with us but no baptismal date yet! :( That will come soon though:) Oh and we have another new investigator! Her name is sister riley! E. Hansen and I were out contacting some less actives and stuff and we still had an hour before we had to be home so we were trying to figure out what to do and this womans name popped into our heads from our area book so we went and stopped by! So we knocked and she answered the door and she let us right in and we taught her the restoration and read from the BOM with her! She is coming to church Sunday as well! :) Whoo! haha before we left she said "Yall are lucky I wasnt at the football game tonight!" haha as if God didnt have a hand in that one!! :)
So one more cool story for the week! Elder Hansen and I were driving through a neighborhood by our appt. complex and as we turned the corner a HUGE bald guy with a massive beard driving a convertable waves and says hey elders how are you! We thought it was weird that he was able to recogonize us that fast so we parked the car and went to his house and he was actually standing outside waiting for us... We didnt know whether to be scetched out or what cause he was such a scary lookin guy!! Well come to find out he was a less active who served a mission, just recently got divorced, and just moved into the ward boundries a month ago and was wanting to come back to church!! So he came to church on sunday and actually is wanting to come on exchanges with us and he took us to Cracker Barrel for lunch the other day too!!
So the area I am serving in is just the ward boundries! It is alot different than back in Utah where 4 blocks covers a ward! From one end of our ward boundries to the other is a 45 min drive! its a very large area we have to cover! haha oh so I dont remember which member told me this but we were at church the other day and none of the members can remember my last name so they just call me "Elder Javelin" haha and they were telling me that when the young men found out that I threw the javelin they were all sayin like "Oh you better not get on his bad side & if you are, you better hope your at least 200 yards away from him!!" hahahah I laughed pretty hard when I heard that!
So other than that things here are going wonderful! I will actually get to write home monday too so be on the lookout ;)
I love and Miss you all! :)
Love Elder Betker!
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