Happy New Year

Jan 2 2017

We had another wonderful week. Elder Mathis is now my companion for a
few more days! He has taught me a lot already!
I never thought Sunday could be as busy as it was yesterday. We had an
awesome meeting with our new branch mission leader and discussed how
to help one of our investigators get to baptism. That should be
happening soon just a few other things have to happen before. We get
to church and several people showed up that we didn't even expect
along with a lot of other visitors. It was a spiritual day filled with
miracles.

This past week we went down south to south Chandler to contact one of
our investigators who has been pretty flakey on us. We went to his
house on the Indian reservation there for the first time and it turned
out he doesn't live at that house. But 2 people were sitting outside
that house that we talked with. They said they had met missionaries
before and knew that our message brought peace and comfort. From the
spirit of it they seemed ready for a change. We left em with copies of
the Book of Mormon after we testified of its truthfulness and the
light it can bring into their lives and referred them to the Tempe
mission. I look forward to their baptism. On the way back we took a
quick wifi stop at mcdonalds to see if our dinner had confirmed with
us. Inside that store were 2 other people a grandma and grandson who
asked "hey are you preaching the word of God?"  They were both from
Tucson taking a trip up north to Mesa. The grandson said he had met
sister missionaries coming to visit his house recently but he thought
they were FBI agents or something along nose lines so he didn't let
them in. Well they offered to buy us some food just because we are
servants of God. The grandma seemed strong in another faith but she
said she accidentally downloaded the Book of Mormon on her phone and
reads it daily. She even posts scriptures from it on her Facebook
wall. We asked if the missionaries could come by and they were
interested. I also look forward to be invited to their baptism.
Well everyone! God is good. He knows exactly what we need and when we need it.

Love
Elder Stotts