December 1st, 2014

We had an amazing week of lots of miracles! To start, on Thanksgiving we weren't allowed to proselyte at all. We got picked up by Miranda, a girl in our ward, and she was taking us to Cracker Barrel to pick up the dinner and then to her family's house. Well, we were waiting for our food, and this guy wandered over and started making conversation about how they messed up his order so we should double check ours. Then he saw our name tags and asked where we were from and what church we were with. We told him and he said that one of his best friends was a member of our church. He said he and his fiancee had just had a baby and that they were looking for a church to raise their daughter in. We offered to send the missionaries in that area over to his house, and he just handed over his address. It was amazing. As we drove away, he texted us "by the way, if you ever want to get into the gated apartment complexes in to spread the word, my friends can let you in!" haha!

On a different evening, we were headed to a guy's house for an appointment we had made with him, but we realized the address he gave us didn't include an apartment number. We couldn't get a hold of him so we decided to find something to do around the area in case he called us back. We decided we were going to knock on someone's door and play "bigger or better", where you ask someone if they'll trade you something bigger or better for something you already have, like a paper clip or a nickel. We've found it's a really easy way to get people to lighten up so we can share the gospel with them. So we walked up to the complex, but realized it was totally gated and we couldn't get in. I saw someone out of the corner of my eye unlocking one of the other gates so we ran over and got in before it locked again. We knocked on the first door we saw and the guy that answered went and got something to trade us for our nickel. After he gave it to us, he kind of looked like he was going to be like, "welp have a good night! and shut the door", but he paused for a minute and said "...I feel like I should invite you in." So we went in and taught him all about the Book of Mormon. It's so cool to look back at the sequence of events that led up to that and realize that the Lord's hand really is in everything that we do here.

Love,

Sister Boll