That time we had a clutch Sunday

So the whole time I've been in Thornton Creek we have been picking up this area, finding lots of people, teaching lots of lessons, and trying, truly trying to help these people get to church and it has worked a little bit, we have had a person at church every so often, but yesterday we had three of the people we are teaching come to church! And a returning member too!! Thomas, David, Nick, and Ken! It was so exciting and the bishop was just smiling at us from the stand, and several members came up to us and thanked us for our work.... So that's good news, members are getting excited for missionary work and we are anticipating more of that the more we show them how much we care about this area! So it's super exciting here in Seattle this week... Other than that, on Saturdays the whole zone plays basketball with the people we are teaching, and I hit a game winning three so I'm coming for you Dakota 🏼

We had a guy walk up to us while we were at a bus stop who immediately asked the question "how old is your religion?" which we answered by teaching part of the Restoration about the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ and the great apostasy and Restoration through Joseph Smith, and then I asked "why do you ask?" and he said "I just wanted to see if you knew" - and folks I've been on my mission for long enough now that I can tell when someone just wanted to try to tear our faith down and the Spirit told me that he was not telling the truth so I said "no really, why did you ask the question" and Elder Nuttall said I was pretty "fiery" and this guy got upset with me, because basically I was calling him a liar and then asked us random questions about how many converts and somehow found out about the church being established in a really rich part of the city and he was like "the rich people are falling for this stuff?" and we were like, they know it's true! It was pretty funny, and when I got really stern with him he totally backed down and stopped messing with us, it felt good to follow the Spirit and be bold with someone, I don't have a lot of time left and I'm not wasting any time on people who are only seeking to tear down the truth.

Other things, this week we have talked about baptism with a lot of people and from that we basically have found who is ready to meet with us and those who are not, and we have a lot of people excited for baptism! So that's awesome! 

It was just a really good week this week, full of lessons and solid invitations. I love being a servant of God. I love Him and I love His work.

Love you! 🤟 

Elder Schoemig