A week of highs and lows

Greeting dear friends and family,

Talk about a week of highs and lows...

This week our best investigators, had a huge fight. They have been together for 7 years and I think that they have 3 kids together, but they never wanted to get married. So anyways everything has been getting better for them as we have been meeting with them. (I'm going to just use the first initials of these people as I tell their story.) So, M got another job and finally got a car so we were super excited for them because they would finally be able to come to church. We went over there Saturday evening to go visit them and invite them to church! So we get there and it was just R sitting outside on the steps and he looked upset so we started talking with him, and apparently M had been with another guy Friday night. They were at their house when R got home, and the guy with M pulled a gun on R... It was super crazy. We have tried calling her and have had no response. It has been very frustrating because they have been progressing the best out of all our investigators. It's like they have just dropped off the face of the earth. We are thinking that we might have to go to her work and visit her to see what is going on.

Also to give an update on Martha and Jorge.... Jorge tells us that he knows the Book of Mormon is true so we are putting him the test to see if he truly does by giving him Moroni 8 to read. It talks about how baptizing little kids is wrong, and Jorge is a catholic. We gave him this challenge last week, but he hasn't done anything... He wont read it. Luckily Martha did. She loves the Book of Mormon and so does their 2 daughters. All 3 would be baptized if Jorge would allow them to.

Anyways besides that a few weeks ago, Elder Zundel and I had one restoration pamphlet left, and we wouldn't be getting any new ones for a week or two. And while I was riding my bike I saw this guy. He waved to me first, and I stopped and started talking with him. He asked if I had anything for him, and I felt like I should give him my last pamphlet. Little did I know that he was actually going to read it. He got onto Mormon.org and requested a Book of Mormon. We got contacted by the church referral people and told that we needed to go deliver a Book of Mormon to this household. At this time I had totally forgotten this man's name and everything. So we punched his address into the GPS and went to look for it. We got to the destination and it was a fireworks store. I was pretty disappointed because we thought someone had just punched in their work address and the phone number they gave us didn't work. But luckily I remembered that I had stopped and talked with this man at that same place. We then went behind the store and there was this little camper and we knocked on it. The man I had talked to opened the door and it all clicked in my mind and made sense. He told us that he had read the pamphlet and that it said that he needed to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it. So we gave him the Book Of Mormon and he told us to come back another time. So we gave him about a week-and-a-half and we went back to see him. He told us that he has read all the way to Moroni, which is crazy fast. He told us that he knows it is true and that he has had friends that have tried to turn him against it, but he told them that he can't deny the Book Of Mormon because he knows it is true and we haven't even taught him a thing! Talk about ready! Well I hope Y'all have a good week and that you don't miss me too much! haha

Love Elder Corbett