Jackson is home

Hey Y'all,

I am staying in Jackson for another 6 weeks. After I heard, I got on my knees because I have had a little bit of a hard time with some things, and as I did I was overcome with the feeling that I'll be able to get through it. Elder Lakis likes me I think, because he was super happy that we were staying. I think it is because most of the investigators like me a lot and I have the in with them, and they were telling me that they were going to be super sad if I was leaving.

So last week we set a goal to knock for 14 hours. Sadly we didn't achieve that goal, we only got 12 hours in. It was really hard. I had never worked this hard on my mission, doing all that I can to find and teach people. In those 12 hours we found 0 new investigators, again. I was pretty upset because most of my mission, if I put in an hour or two of knocking doors I normally have been able to find someone that is interested in learning. But the past two weeks we knocked a total of 20 hours and nothing. A few people who didn't want to be rude, said that we could come back later.

Monday then rolls along and it's not P-day this week, so we planned to go knock doors at 2 o'clock because that was the only time that we could. Not going to lie I really did not want to go do it. I thought it was pointless and that we would be able to spend our time better doing something else. Also Monday we biked because we are asking our missionaries to bike more and we can't ask them to do something we aren't willing to do. We biked to this area and we knocked 4 doors and then finally in 20 and 1/2 hours we were able to find someone who is willing to use their faith and see if God has truly called a prophet in our day. After we were done with this, the scripture of Alma 26:27 came to mind. It says Now when our hearts were depressed, and we were about to turn back, behold, the Lord comforted us, and said: Go amongst thy brethren, the Lamanites, and bear with patience thine afflictions, and I will give unto you success. I learned a lot. I know that God is not going to let us go through something that we aren't able to handle. There is nothing that is too hard, or too challenging in life. If you are going through something hard, it is because we can do hard things through Christ. Through challenges we grow. We learn and we become a better person once we overcome that trial. So that was pretty cool to learn.

Then when we were doing some finding on Monday, when we ran into an ex navy seal. This dude tried giving us a hard time and was trying to tell me that Mormons don't believe in the Bible. I am at that point of my mission where if someone tries to attack us, I will defend it and shut them down. So when this guy was saying we don't believe in the Bible, I pulled one out of my bag and said, "Why would I carry a King James Bible in my bag if we didn't believe in it?" And I had a pretty sassy tone. He then tried giving me the excuse that we rewrote it. So I told him to read it. He took it and we gave him our number, and told him to call if he needed service or any help. The next morning we got a call and he asked us if we could bring 2 more people to help move a couch. I have never heard of a couch that needs 4 people to move it. We got there and he's like you need more people to move the couch, but we told him we got this. We had to move this couch from a house, across the street into another house. Elder Lakis and I are in our suit pants and we pick it up and move it. This man was surprised! He told us that we must have had the gift of strength just like Sampson. I told him yes we did and just laughed. The couch was heavy but it wasn't that heavy. The hard part about moving any piece of furniture is getting it out the door, but we were able to do it. He then told us that he was super thankful and that he wants us to come teach him Saturday and that he is going to come to church with us.

Another funny story haha, is we met this dude outside smoking so we go up to him and start talking with him. He told us that he has the desire to quit smoking, and we have a program that is 7 days and can help you quit smoking. We offered that and he said he was good, that he just wants to do it on his own. I just laughed. Then we taught him a little bit about how God has called a prophet in our days. This dude then tried calling us Anti-Christ and said that we are leading people away from God and to a prophet. I then asked him a few questions that he could not answer and left him confused, but he was hard-hearted and wouldn't listen to us.

That is pretty much it from me. I hope all is well!!! I love y'all I hope all is well!!

Love Elder Corbett