Well let's address the elephant in the room, I have been transferred to the south end area with my old MTC companion Elder Jackson O'Hare to follow up train one another ( I train him Sunday Tuesday and Thursday and he takes the rest). This hasn't been done in almost 2 years and one of the Elders they did it with was my old Zone Leader Elder Auras, so he gave me a few helpful tips and said "Nothing could have prepared you for this, and nothing I can say will. Know you will get lost, mess up, and not know what you are doing; but the Lord will help you if you rely on the spirit".
The first day of our transfer I had to travel to London twice, to let you guys know that takes almost 2 hours from where I am right now. I traveled to go get Elder O'Hare and then we went dropped my stuff off and realized that I took Elder Kalabankos phone so we had to travel back and return it; therefore wasting all day traveling and leaving just a few hours of OYMing left. The next day we had a dinner appointment with a lovely old couple the Bulls and we left our phone in their car after and were not able to pick it up until the next morning.
So from when we left it until we got it back the district and zone leaders tried contacting us ( I think president asked them to keep a close eye on us, we talk to them at least once a day), when they couldn't get a hold of us so the zone leaders came knocking at our door at 9am Friday morning. But the thing was we weren't home, we were out using a pay phone trying to get a hold of the zone leaders. When we did they said the only way they would forgive us is if we found 3 new investigators that day, so we put our nose to the grind stone and ended up finding 4 new investigators in 6 hours. We then found 2 the next day, and 3 more the following. We have 9 new investigators in the first week of the transfer and 2 baptisms on date with many more to come.
We have a solid investigator who is ready for baptism that I unfortunately wasn't here to begin her teaching with. Her name is Bridget and she is a strong Zimbabwe woman who searched for the true church. She called the missionaries and exclaimed " I believe your church is the true church I want to meet and be baptized" so they went along with it and left the hard work for Elder O'Hare, we had a lesson with her over the phone and I was super nervous because we were teaching the law of chastity and I did not know how to teach with our seeing someone face to face. So we made the call and her first words were " elders I found and read the law of chastity pamphlet and I want to let you know I already live that and believe that and I'm ready to live it now". So I was totally relieved and it built my testimony that the lord has prepared his people out here and put them in our path to baptism them with the prober priesthood authority.
I had a similar experience with my companion Just yesterday, we were about to set out of our flat to meet a list of in actives. In the middle of the prayer we were both struck with the spirit to not visit them and to not even leave the flat. Every time we went to leave something over came both of us heeding us to not go, I had never felt that before and thought maybe it was prompting other than the Holy Ghost. But we sat and prayed and we were told to go somewhere else, some where close.
My companion was prompted to pull out a map which I did and we chose one little pin about one block from our flat. We went to visit and it was a little complex. We didn't know how to get in so we rung flat 17, the flat we were prompted to go to. We rung it once, no answer. We rung twice and no answer, we almost left but for some reason my arm just moved almost by it's own will and rung it for the third time. And of course obviously the lord provide and answer with this young man Stephen, he is a solid guy and even though he doesn't know it he is getting baptized. We caught him at the right time because that was his girl friends apartment and he was babysitting and was just about to leave to go to work. The lord works in mysterious ways and again is preparing his people.
We have right now 3 solid baptismal dates between elder O'Hare and myself this transfer and we are working on two more solid investigators making hopefully 5 baptisms this transfer. I know that if we have enough faith and enough trust in the Lord we will reach our goal and hopefully survive until the end of this transfer. Everyone if you made it this far to my email it shows that you love me and keep sending my pictures emails and updates on your guys lives, I pray for each one of you every night and wish you all well. I elder Massey being born of goodly parents and of the promised land live you with these things in the name of Jesus Christ amen.
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