This was a fun week. On Sunday at the MCRD, there was a lot of work to do. After sacrament meeting, I approached a recruit who was interested in learning more about the gospel. Turns out, the other four guys in his row were also interested, so I took them back in the auditorium and started teaching them, 1v5. It was wild! One of them was baptized at 8 years old but really had no knowledge or testimony of the gospel. Two of the others were twins named Santiago, who had heard about the Lamanites from their parents.
I taught all five of those men the first two lessons, The Restoration of the Gospel and the Plan of Salvation. I testified very boldly and powerfully and told them that my job was to prepare them for baptism. I asked if any of them would be interested in continuing on the path towards baptism, and all four of the non members said yes. The inactive member asked if he could be re-baptized, so then I taught them about the sacrament.
I'll only have one more week at the MCRD. Since the mission is losing some missionaries right now and we are closing a lot of areas, my area in the Cowles Mtn YSA ward will be closed, meaning we won't be able to make it to the MCRD anymore. The new AP area will be the La Mesa family ward. This will be my first time in an English family ward!
Our zone leaders are our downstairs neighbors, so they come over all the time and chat with us in the evenings. We've also been putting them to work with helping us with random stuff. So they've now started calling themselves the Assistants to the Assistants to the President, or the AAPs haha.
Our man Javier pulled up to church the other day in his 67 Camaro that he restored himself. After church we went out and watched him rip some burnouts in the church parking lot.
We had the first of four days of zone conference yesterday. In the past, Sister Gimenez would always take the pictures, but since Sister Merritt is still new, I was taking all the pictures and videos yesterday. So that's why I'm in so many of them haha.
One more week till the end of the transfer! I hope everyone is doing alright, let me know if there's anything exciting going on these days.
God Bless!
Elder Pettit
