Week Five

8/13/12

Good Afternoon!

I am still just plugging right along here in Charleston. We have spent a majority of our efforts on Connie Angel, trying to prepare her for baptism next week. We taugh the Word of Wisdom and she was all for living it this time. She has a lot of passion for the gospel. She took all her cigs and tore them in half, dumped all her coffee and tea down the drain and gathered up all her ashtrays. She put it all in a bag, held it over the trash shoot and said, "In the name of Jesus!" and let go. She didn't come to church yesterday unfortunately and when we went to see her in the evening, her friend was over and being way sketchy to us. The things they were saying, It definitely felt that she didn't want to meet with us anymore. Then she called us this morning and told us she wants us to come by tonight. I would love to give you a thumbs up or down on how she is doing, but honestly it feels day to day. Thanks for keeping her in your prayers. It is miraculous the changes she has made in her life already.

Last night we met with a Mason. He is a highly intelligent person with a lot of truth, but the conversation was so deep that I left feeling weighed down rather than uplifted. It was a nice reminder that the gospel doesn't need to be complicated. The Spirit bears stronger witness of simple truths. He was a friendly guy though and showed us around his guitar studio. He is friends with Tom Morello from Rage and has his original bass pedal.

We had a good zone conference on friday as well teaching on Commitments with Investigators. I love being a zone leader, but I am feeling burned out in some of the responsibilities. So next wednesday (10 days) elder brady will be going home so he bore his departing testimony at zone conference. It was a pretty harsh reality that missions really do come to an end. It was kind of emotional for me because I remember my first day with him and now 18 months later he is leaving. Yall be careful! (Every single person we talk to says this as we leave, not because it is dangerous, its just a culture thing)

Love

Elder Dumke