Thanksgiving

Hey y'all,

This week has been a super quick and crazy one. I picked up Elder Tonga on Tuesday and we stayed the night in Shreveport, so we didn't waste miles driving back to Coushtta. We had district meeting there so we didn't head back to Coushatta until Wednesday afternoon. We stopped by to visit a few members and investigators on the way home. By the time that we got home it was 8:00 so Elder Tonga unpacked and we got ready for Thanksgiving.

So we went to 2 member's homes for Thanksgiving and it was so much fun and so much food. I loved it. The members have been so much fun to work with! We even played sock baseball with a part member family and that was a lot of fun. It made up for missing the turkey bowl. I am looking forward to it next year and playing in it!

Then sadly on Friday we didn't do any black Friday shopping because we have no stores in Coushatta. But if we could have, it would've been a good finding opportunity with so many people in one spot.

Then Saturday we had some really good success. We were trying a potential investigator and he was asleep so we asked the person we met if we could teach them and they said yes. We taught them the restoration and they understood everything. One of them said that it answered some of the questions that he has had. We are going to go and see them next Saturday. We have been working hard and are going to try and get a few baptisms by the time we are done together! I hope y'all have had a great Thanksgiving and black Friday! I love you!!!

Elder Corbett

I am staying in Coushatta

Whats up y'all?

I am staying in Coushatta. This week we had a pretty good week. We have been working hard. We have been trying to help our investigators read the Book of Mormon daily and to pray about it so that they can receive their answer, so that they can be baptized. We have also helped them rake their leaves. We have been having some fun with them.

Sorry I don't have a whole lot of time, because we are having transfers today. Elder Muller is transferring and I will be getting a new companion. Its crazy to see how fast transfers go. It seems like they only last a week, when they are 6 weeks haha.

But something really cool that happened this week, is that we have been working with a less active lady. The members said she hadn't been to church and that she would just tell us she would come but never end up coming. That happened for the first few weeks, but I was determined to go against what the members said. So me and my companion set aside 30 minutes a day to go visit with her and read the book of Mormon with her. This has not only been a blessing to her but it has really impacted our days as well. We started this I believe 3 weeks ago and she has been feeling the spirit in her life more and more. This week she got one of her caretakers to bring her to church. At first we were disappointed because they were late and we thought she had sold out on us again. Then we saw her come in with her walker and I was so happy to see her there. She enjoyed church and I think her caretaker may be interested as well. It is cool to see the power of the book of Mormon and what it can do in our lives as we read it each day. It literally strengthens us and will help us in everything we do.

I hope y'all have a good turkey day and also some good black Friday shopping. Love y'all!!!

Elder Corbett

The miracle of the last door

This week has been a good one but has been one filled with miracles and a bit of disappointments. So to start it off, this weekend has been a tough one! We had a lot of appointments planned out and we thought that we were going to be really successful, but all of our appointments fell through. Our investigators were either sick or had to go out of town to see their family. So our weekend was rough, but before that we had a really good week!

So next to the miracles. We were challenged by our zone leaders to fast on Sunday and then tract or knock doors the next Tuesday to show our faith in finding someone that God has prepared for us. We prayed about an area and started knocking. We had a hard time for the entire area until the last door. Luckily my companion is a beast and made me knock the last door, because it was 5:00 and I was thinking that we needed to go because we had an appointment with someone and then also dinner with a member in a half hour. We were short on time. But he talked me into knocking the last door and the lady answered and she was friends with one of our investigators. She let us teach her a bit! It was the miracle of the last door.

Then later this week we had dinner with one of our investigators and his family. They are a bunch of rednecks!! And they are proud of it. Y'all should look up the video of "Ultimate Redneck camper truck pt1 and pt2". He literally made this thing and it is so dope! They also fed us some fried fish and it was really good. We are helping their son change his life! His name is Matthew. I told y'all about him in my last email.

That is it from me! I hope y'all have had a good week!

Love Elder Corbett

The miracles of fasting!!

Good day y'all

My week was a really good one. So to start it off, we went to a members for Halloween and we had a weenie roast and then a hay ride. Down here in the South or at least where I am it, it is a good distance from house to house. Also on Halloween not everyone was giving out candy, because it's now become too "dangerous. So they hop on the back of a trailer and go down the street until you see a house with the light on. Then you stop and let the kids get out. It was really fun.

On the way back they stopped and shared a few scary stories but the coolest one I thought was when we pulled down this dirt road. We went a little ways down and the driver stopped and started talking about the history in this area. So back in the day, in Martin, the town we were in, there used to be this place where they took the slaves. It was down this little road and was where they would tar and feather them and eventually lynch them. It was a pretty interesting, but sad place to go. They said this is why you don't see any black people in Martin, because they are still scared to go up there. So that was Halloween.

Then the next day we were trying a potential investigator and this old man with a big beard came up to us and started talking to us. We tried teaching him but he kept telling us that he knew more than us and that we need to read the book of Enoch. It was pretty funny because he was trying to tell us that it talks about how Enoch was taken up by an alien spaceship. I was just laughing in my head. The funny thing is that I went on an exchange with an elder in my district and we were at a lesson and the investigator had a different translation of the bible, which translate the word stranger into alien. So the whole conversation with him was that he was trying to tell us that angels are aliens, and that they come in spaceships. The things that some people believe. That is why it is so important to read the most correct translation of the bible because the change of a simple word can change the whole meaning. So that was fun.

But the best part of the week happened last. We have been struggling a little bit with the work here in Coushatta and getting people to sacrament meeting and also new investigators because the town has been tracted out so many times. So we fasted this week along with our zone that we would be able to find someone who could be baptized by the end of the year. We started our fast on Saturday after lunch. This is when the miracles began.

We went out and tracted a little bit before we went to see a less active lady that we read the Book of Mormon to everyday for 15 minutes. But while we were trying a few people we met this girl who was semi-interested and taught her the restoration. She also invited us back which was nice. Then we read the Book of Mormon with the less active. After that we had a return appointment from the day before. This guy said come back, and he actually was there!!! That's rare and he wanted to hear what we had to say, so we taught him the restoration and he loved it. We committed him to be baptized and he accepted! But it gets better.

We went over to Lorie and Lauren's house to invite them to church. They each have been having boy troubles. We talked with them a bit and Lorie has another daughter named Summer. Summer has a kid named Kade, and he is always at Lorie's house. So all of them were there and Lorie had even invited Summer's baby daddy over to come see his kid. His name is Matthew and he had just gotten out of prison for some things. But we started talking with him and he wants to make a 180 in his life so we taught him a little bit about the atonement and gave him a Book of Mormon to read. We also invited them all to church, and they have been having struggles coming to church the whole time I have been here. They kept promising us they would come but they would end up not showing up. Sunday rolled around and they came to church!!! Lorie, Summer and Matthew all came, and something that was really cool was that the boy that Lorie was having issues with came to church with her!!!! It was great. They loved it and we received a text from Lorie that night saying how much she loved it and wants to come next week.

So I learned this week that the power of fasting is real! That when we give up things that we need and show God that this is important to us, that he is going to help us out. I look back and know that it was only by the help of God that we were able to have such great success this week!!

Sorry this is so long, but it was a really good week! I hope y'all have a good week and email me if you want:)

With love,

Elder Corbett