Aug 4, 2014
Dear Family and Friends,
We went to the Washington DC Temple on Saturday. We went with a less active member
that we helped come back. It was super awesome. It was my first time with the new video
and Spanish so it was a bit overwhelming. We got to have a mini
orientation with the temple president because Elder Hardy, my old
companion, was the escort. That opened my eyes quite a bit. I
understood everything in Spanish but it was still weird. Super good
day. We are doing well in Bridgeton and we are finding people still. We found
Ten new people this week. We are still the leaders in the district and we
didn't even get to work on Saturday or Friday night. I got to stay in
Camden Friday night with my golden (greenie) that I didn't get to
finish training. He is learning a lot. There should be a baptism from
a man we were teaching when I left this next Sunday. Oh bonus news. I
found out that someone I was teaching in Philly actually got baptized!
I'm not a failure in Philly! It's a long time after I left but was is we set him
with a date with him for like two weeks after I hadleft Philly.
When the appointment came around, they had neglected to talk to the dad
about it. They had to work with the dad a bit so he could be
ready to baptize him. So that's exciting news. We had people at church
this week. Working hard and loving it. We taught a man that we found
in his backyard while looking for someone else. We were really bold
with him. He had told us that the most important thing to him was his
family and we told him that if that was true then he would listen to
our message but he was still shrugging us off. Somehow, the
conversation changed a bit and I told him that he knew we
had a message of truth that would bless his family and he was scared.
I told him that look me in the eye and tell me that he
didn't know this was true. He didn't even attempt to look up
at me. ( weird being tall) He continued to not really care what we
were saying. I told him that he had now his second chance (He had
talked to missionaries before) to accept the gospel and if he didn't
we would be before him at the judgement saying we tried to help him.
He didn't want to set an appointment for a specific time. Elder
Minnich said that we were very serious about this. I shook his hand
and said I'm sorry. As we started to walk away,
he said, "You said Saturday at eight? I'll do my best to be there."
I hope that really stuck with him and we will make some
serious progress with him. There are a lot of lessons where Elder
Minnich and I do the good cop bad cop. From the story I'm sure you can
guess who is who. Haha talk to everyone and follow the spirit and
don't be overly worried about being bold. Christ offended lots of
people because they couldn't accept the truth but He still had a love
that is hard to comprehend. That's what I'm working on this week
really putting myself in their shoes and asking if I would want to
hear from myself. So, I think, I finally got a good missionary letter
after sixteen months woo! I think the temple helped.
Love to all,
Elder Jesse Killpack
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