So this was just another week in the life of Elder Treadway. Making work happen and letting things fall into place.
I'd say that the coolest and most interesting thing that happened this week was when we got let down by one of our investigators (or as we call it here, punted). She was really sick so she told us to come back the next day. While walking, Elder Prescott was like, "what are we going to do now?" I felt like we should go back to the house since we were close and maybe grab a couple former investigators out of the Area Book to follow up with. We get back to the house and I had to go to the bathroom but I told Elder Prescott to go grab two or three pages out of the Former Investigator section that he felt good about. He came back down and told me that he felt like we should go visit this one girl that lived kind of close to the church. We took this one road not sure if it would lead to the house we were looking for. As we were walking, we passed this little path with a man walking in our direction. He yelled out, "HEY!" (Which is totally common since people just shout to us since we're American). I ignored him but IMMEDIATELY I felt the distinct impression to talk to him. So I spun around and walked to the guy and started talking to him. Turns out this guy, Goodie, has no religion because he is confused. He's bounced from church to church and has found falsehoods in each of them. He's studied the Bible like a maniac and knows the thing inside and out. He's listened to the Elders once before but neither of them were very good at Cebuano so he didn't want them to come back. We talked to him a little bit and he was just spittin his beliefs at us which lined prefectly with the restored Gospel! We just stood there for the next 45 minutes just talking. It was a super awesome lesson. He really wants us to visit him. We did yesterday and it went REALLY well. He's read into a lot of stuff. I'm sure a little bit of Anti-Mormon stuff and so we'll be excited to answer those questions.
But I just feel so deeply that we were led to him by the Spirit. I went back and highlighted all the times I said "felt" in the last couple paragraphs. Over the course of my mission, that's how I've only been able to define the promptings of the Holy Ghost. A feeling. And I just feel deep inside that Goodie has been prepared for us. So hopefully we can do some work. I'm excited. He asked for 1 1/2 hour time slots on our schedule. Its gonna be sweet.Outside of that, just doing what we do best. And loving it.
I'm really looking forward to hearing what happens with Ben. I'm gonna call Florida. haha. Idk. There's a lot of places he could go. My advice is this, man: Whatever happens, the Lord is in it. And that's the way the cookie crumbles! haha.Hope everything is going well for you guys back home. Love you guys and think about you all the time. Well, enough. haha.
Thanks for all your love and prayers,Brandon
