Serving in Kentucky: Below Bitter Cold

January 9, 2017

Dear Family,

For the sake of time I'm going to keep this shorter than most other emails. Get the week below

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-Monday-

Normal P-Day full of cleaning and shopping. Because of the Christmas season, I got some extra cash. Thank you!!!! I'm such a child. :D

We visited Mr Ad again. As always we read with him. He's able to pick a lot out of the BoM. He'll make a good member.

-Tuesday-

The temperature was great! We bike around for most of the day. It rained off and on though. Lame!

We saw Ms Ro and taught her a powerful Gospel of Jesus Christ lesson and tied everything into the Atonement. She's starting to really open up to us. She's a lot happier around us now than she was when I first got here.

We also taught Bro L and read 2 Nephi 2. As always, he seems to be progressing. We should see him at church in the coming weeks.

-Wednesday-

We did a lot of our new favorite activity. Walking. We walked everywhere in town.

We taught Miss B and finished L5 with her. She's ready. She really wants to get baptized. We just need to do the interview now to get her baptized.

-Thursday-

It snowed! There was about 2 or 3 inches on the ground! It was 20 degrees all day!

We saw Ms Ro again and read Elder J. Devin Cornish's "Am I Good Enough? Will I Make It?" from last conference. She loved it! It help put things into perspective for her.

We served at Food 4 R Souls. This time was BBQ sammiches.

We saw Bro L again and reviewed the Plan of Salvation for him. We briefly visited Mr M. He's still reading the BoM thankfully.

-Friday-

The Madison Elders drove us down to New Albany for a Zone meeting. They gave a bunch of trainings on being yourself. It was a good meeting. We went to Steak N' Shake for lunch afterwards. Their burgers are cheap but they're actually good.

3 of our 4 lessons fell though so we spent a majority of the day walking around in 10 degree weather with a windchill of 3 degrees.

We taught Mr A and his dad again. It was nice to have both of them to teach. We taught them about family home evening. They're a solid family.

-Saturday-

We spent about half the day in Crothersville trying people. Not much happened there. We ate at the Subway they have. For Crothersville being as small as it is, they've got a surprisingly nice and large Subway.

We saw Bro L again and read Alma 5. It sort of threw down on a lot of the stuff he needs to fix.

We taught Mr Ma for the first time in a while. We taught him the Restoration. It must have been led by the Spirit because I remember nothing I said.

-Sunday-

Church! Bro L came. Our branch president, President Pernod, gave us a 10 second notice to teach gospel principles. We started with the first lesson since we finished the book last week. It was a solid class period. Everyone there participated a lot. It made our life easy.

Later on we met with a man named Da and his wife C. They live next to Ms J. We had a nice conversation about eternal families and the BoM. They're interested in learning more. We'll see where they go.

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Are you reading your scriptures? Just checking....

-Elder Benjamin Kohkonen Cox (GKLM)