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