This photo is the North Carolina Raleigh Mission LOGO, if you will... Cheeze would be so proud... for all-a you Shaners out there ;)
Hello everything!! sorry for the day late letter and update!! It was labor day and the library wasnt open:( This past week has been great!! The past few months here have been very slow but they are slowly picking back up. I have finally adjusted to the time change and dont fall asleep in my study time anymore!! haha So we have been teaching Tabitha and Pam, if you remember them from the last letter, and they are doing pretty good! the things they are going through right now is making it harder for us to meet with them but we make contact with them everyday and give them things to read from the book of mormon. Taitha is going through a NASTY divorce right now and its really taking a toll on her and her family. They keep telling us that we are helping them out so much and they know that we were sent to them from God to help them. They have been reading the BOM everyday and Tabitha told us the other night that she began to cry cause she felt so at peace! She is really trying hard to rely on the lord to help her through this and she is on the right track! We are trying to get them to come to church this weekend so hopefully they will. We have a lesson tonight with the two of them so we will ask them then. The other night we offered to give them a blessing of comfort and explained to them the preisthood power that we hold and what a blessing was and they said they would love one so we plan on giving them one when we go over tonight as well. So all in all I am seeing the gospel and BOM work miracles in peoples lives!!
On thursday I went on an exchange with my Zone Leader in chapel hill. He told me we were going to be contacting on the Campus at UNC and I was pretty excited- then he said dont get to excited cause everyone is usually always in a rush... So we got there and I kid you not.. the first 6 people we talked to, stopped and talked to us and either gave us their info for a return appointment or we gave out a BOM or something... After we left Elder Wade said "Elder Betker your like a miracle worker, thats the first time anything like that has ever happened to us here!!" haha yea I felt pretty special! During the exchange elder hansen and christiansen (the other Zone Leader) found us a new lady to teach and her son! Her name is shannon and her sons name is Roosevelt and is 20 yrs old! We went over on saturday to teach them and from what I had understood from Elder hansen when he was explaining her to me, she seemed way solid and had the same beliefs as us! haha yea lets just say when we got there, we werent able to leave for two hours and when we finally did we both had headaches!!! She researched our religion from some random website and tried goin off on all these crazy tangents about us and how we dont believe in God and all this stuff! So Elder Hansen and I simply explained to her that it wasnt true and she needed to go to our church website to learn about our religion! So we finally got into the lesson portion of it and they were very receptive to what we had to say but they believed in the trinity (believes that Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ and the HG are one being) so we simply had to explain that they are 3 separate beings with one purpose! haha The lady was crazy and we were both just testifying of what we know to be true and everyting and she had such a hard time understand at this point cause she kept referring back to the things which she read on the internet... So we are going to try and keep teaching her and everything but I guess we will have to see how that goes!
Yesterday Elder Hansen and I had the bright Idea to go to the batting cages!!! I was so stoked and I also found a wood bat in the Appt. so we took that! I go into the cage and my second hit with the bat.... Busted it!! hahaha it was great!! The bats there at the place were aweful, they didnt have any our size so we ended up hitting with a little softball bat but it was still great fun! I have also bought a few new ties and traded a few new ones as well! people look at my ties and they think im sitting on a gold mine! everyone here wants to trade with me!! :) haha yea its great! :)
The rest of the week we have just been out trying to find people to teach and contact referrals we have and everything! we have gotten a few return appointments so hopefully those will work out! The mission is definitely a roller coaster but in a good way! My studies and knowledge in the book of mormon has grown so much to the point where I can finally feel confident using it in contacts and lessons and stuff! Elder Hansen has been a great trainer and has taught me so much and I just keep continuing to learn!
Well everyone I have got to get going:( I love you all and Keep you in my prayers! I hope everyone is doing amazing and I will write you next week:)
Love Elder Betker!! :)
ps i will send home pics next week too.. I forgot my cord to sent them with:( sorry!!
MISS YOU!
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