Well this past week has been a good one for sure! Last Monday we picked up our new companion from the mission office in Irvine. His name is Elder Francom and he is from Lacey, Washington! He is super awesome and has come ready to work, which is always good haha.
Last Monday we went shopping at Wal-Mart and this guy named Bob started talking to us and asked if we could meet up later in the week. We found out that he lives outside of our area but he insisted that we meet anyway, somewhere in our area; some of you can already see where this is going 
. So we decided to meet with him at a park on Thursday. When we got there he told us how awesome he thought we were and he gave us these pictures of Jesus that he drew, which are actually really good haha! Then towards the end we were like, "Well Bob we've got to get going." And then he was like okay but first I have something for you. Then he pulled out all this anti literature and was telling us how God is only 1 person, which is actually really confusing and doesn't make sense at all haha, and told us all these things and basically it was almost a Bible bash but going into it I told my companions that we shouldn't cause any contention. So afterwards we just shared 3 Nephi 11:11 and invited him to read the Book of Mormon. He told us that we would make good Christians, and we were like brotha we are Christians, haha. Then he gave us all his anti stuff and a packet of papers on scriptures in the Bible that are contradicting, but that's why we have JST.
Anyway that was fun.
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| Hayden, Elder Francom and Elder Lundgreen with The Potters. The Potters actually lived in our ward years ago and were Hayden's Primary Teachers. Small world! |
Later that day we had a self referral who wanted us to pray for her. We went to her home and she asked us if we were Jehovah witnesses, haha, and we told her no but that we belong to the church of Jesus Christ. Later in the conversation she was like, "Are you Mormons?" We told her that is a nickname that we get, haha, and then for some reason she didn't think Mormons celebrate Christmas . That was pretty funny but then we taught her the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Spirit is truly the teacher because it was a little awkward teaching in a trio with a greenie. We went back on Saturday with a member and taught her lesson 1 again but we planned it out better. She is very spiritual and was telling us for like 15 minutes how the scriptures and the prophets are like how God does coding for us and I don't even know but it was weird. Anyway, her name is Christina and she is super interested! We are meeting with her again this week so please pray for Christina!
I read in Alma 5 this week. That chapter is amazing! The first line in verse 7 says "Behold, he changed their hearts..." Jesus Christ has the power to change each and every one of us for the better if we let Him. He wants us to follow Him and His gospel is for ALL of us! I invite you all to read Alma 5 this week and ask Heavenly Father what you need to change in your life :)
I love you all!
Elder Shockley
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