Hey family, Happy Monday. Happy belated Earth Day too - that was yesterday - I hope no one went too crazy in their celebrating.
This week finally got our car taken in to the body shop to get the dent taken out. So we ended up on bike for three days. It felt good to be biking. The weather was great for it too. We actually loved it so much we're planning on setting aside some bike time each week. It was nice to be riding around in the fresh air and getting some exercise, but it also helped us find some sweet people we wouldn't have found if we weren't on bike. This one guy stopped us in his car and said he wanted to start meeting with us, he seems like a sincere guy. We also found a lady who is just a good good lady, we ended up having a lesson with her the next day and went over the Restoration. She has three autistic children, all are pretty young, you can tell she just loves them all. We feel really good about her and her family. We're hopefully seeing her again tomorrow.
This week we had a lot of lessons (15) with members coming out to help. There are some top notch members in this ward, they just want to help out and look forward to us calling them up each week. We even took a new member named Jerard out with us for his first time coming out with missionaries. He was baptized in January, just a good good man. He did great too. We actually took him to a lesson with a new-ish investigator named Dennis - it turned out they're related! Jerard's cousin-in-law is married to Dennis' sister-in-law, so not the closest relationship, but they knew a ton of people in common really well. So that in of itself was pretty cool, and Jerard did a fantastic job at being supportive and bearing testimony.
We also had a neat experience where we were teaching one of our investigators who is working towards baptism on the 13th of May. Her name is Cyiara, her mom is a member. She had a big day of try-outs yesterday for some elite softball team (she takes softball extremely seriously) and her mom made a comment after a lesson that they won't be able to make it church because of the try-outs. Cyiara said "Well you guys don't have to but I'm spending the night at grandma and grandpa's and going to church with them in the morning for at least sacrament". Cyiara's on top of it. So her and her mom and her younger brother ended up coming to Sacrament Meeting yesterday and leaving in time for her to get to her try-outs. That was just awesome to see. Also on a quick side note, Cyiara's younger brother Samuel is 9. He really wants to be baptized too. The tricky part is their dad is actually a member of a different church and hasn't been very supportive about baptism. That's why Cyiara hasn't been baptized until now. So we're teaching Samuel as well every time we go over, and we're praying hard that he'll be able to be baptized too. But if you would like to keep Samuel in your prayers, feel free, he's a good kid who really deserves it to happen sooner rather than later. The dad seems to be a genuinely good person too, he just isn't very open to the church right now.
Well that's about it for the week I think. A great week. I hear the Scotts are coming out soon, either this week or next week I can't remember. I'm pretty sure this week. So that'll be cool. They'll be serving in a different zone but I'll for sure see them at meetings.
Well that's about it for the week. Hope everyone's doing good. Happy Earth Day!
Love,
Elder Lamb
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