Weeks 27 & 28

Well sorry for not writing last week, with it being a holiday and all we didn’t really get a chance to email very much, but not a whole lot happened. Well I did get a new companion, Elder Marquez, we came out from the MTC together. he's pretty cool. We spent most of last week organizing all of our paper work and dividing the area up into different sections and finding out who lives where. It was pretty long and boring to tell you the truth. This past week we worked a lot tho. One night we went to see a former investigator, Jessica, that we had an appointment with. We get there and she was working a bit outside, so we talked with her a bit, to see what she remembered and get to know her. After talking to her for about 45 min or so, we finished up and were leaving. While Elder Marquez was backing up there was a guy standing on his front porch that said hi to me and asked how things were going, so I said good. I went to introduce myself, Elder Marquez was a little confused at first I think. Well he gets out also and we introduce ourselves to him, his name is Hunter. We met his (we think) wife and their 4 month old baby. We talked to them for a bit and taught them the first lesson! He said he was wondering what we were talking to Jessica about. He said he has dyslexia but will try to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it, and that he was excited to read it. He asked us to come back in a day or two. so we go back and he had to go to a neighboring town but would be back later that night. We asked him if he had read any and he said "Well, to be honest with you guys...I was reading and praying about it" and at this point, I won’t lie, I was kinda thinking "dang he's gonna ask us not to come back" but he said "and I heard a little voice in my head saying 'just prove one thing about it wrong' " and that he can’t prove anything wrong, and he likes it because "it means exactly what it says, and there is no way to twist it really, like the bible can be." So we went back later that night and the first question he asked was "So how do I join the church exactly?" Elder Marquez and I both were super happy - it was hard to talk for a few min! We then told him how, and he committed to be baptized the last Sunday of the month! And that he’s not even going to try and prove anything wrong because he knows it’s true, and that Joseph Smith is a prophet, and if he didn’t believe it yet the Book of Mormon would tell him otherwise! And for a little icing on the cake, his wife wasn’t there that time but we went back a few days later and she still wasn’t there, but she told him she wants to join also! the Lord defiantly blessed Elder Marquez and I for the long "boring" work we did, and for this dang heat and humidity that were out tracting in! We’re super happy this week, and hope everyone is doing really good,
Love y'all,
Elder Holcombe
ps: I’m getting the country lingo down, I have to edit some of the words I put into my letters now so they are "normal" haha