July 20 - Teaching in Harkov

I hope Thompson's greenie is enjoying all those investigators we worked hard to find, because starting from scratch again is gay. No, I'm kidding, it's not that bad. I like contacting and we've been having alot of success with it. Our investigator Alla came to church yesterday with her grandson. She was great and participated in all the classes. We picked her up and I talked to her a while about the book of Mormon and the Bible, and about what she read in the book of Mormon and some other stuff. She's a smart lady and a great investigator. She said that she and her husband loved to drink beer together, but one night he got wasted and fell into the subway and got killed. Yea, I didn't know what to say either when she told me that. But they loved church and the members were great to her. Also, yesterday when we were contacting, we had one of the most powerful lessons that I've ever experienced. We contacted this lady who didn't want to talk to us at first, but we asked her some questions and she suddenly just opened up to us. She started to cry as she told as us that her husband of 30 years past away, then shortly after her daughter did, and she lost contact with her sister also. She said she was a good Christian woman who follows the commandments and asked why God punished her and why all of this happened to her. We just testified that she could see her family again, and that we couldn't understand how she feels but Christ could because he already suffered everything for us. We committed her to read Alma 40 that night and promised her that it would comfort her, and that when she read it she would feel Christ's love for her and that she's not alone. She's the perfect person that needs to hear our message about the Restored Gospel. Rarely, if ever, do we have a street lesson that I continue to think about throughout the day. Usually you contact a person, then kind of just go to the next one, but I'm still thinking of that one, it was so powerful. The work is picking up and we're actually finding people to meet with who aren't ,e,bers, which my comp said they didn't do all last transfer. So we're grateful for the success God's given us so far and hopefully we can just keep it going.