Elder Larsen-Email Excerpt

The missionary work is going well. We found six new investigators, and a baptism fell in our laps. A girl took the lessons in Arizona, and she is getting baptized here. All she needs is an interview. We have some others that are progressing more slowly but doing well. One of our investigators said hi to us in the library when were emailing. We had a fun lesson with him.

We were teaching Vincent last week, and Ezekiel, his stepson, was in the kitchen. So I invited him to be part of the lesson. He declined because he knew Jesus, but he listened in the kitchen. Ezekiel came into the lesson halfway through to argue with us about things that had nothing to do with anything at all, and he talked a lot. So I did my best to take control, speed through the last principals with very bold language, and committed them to baptism. Interesting situation: he felt the spirit to the point that he told all of us he knew that Joseph Smith was a prophet, but he had trouble with the Book of Mormon. Usually, it’s the other way around, but he committed to read and pray, and he is working toward September 10th.