Hey everyone its been a fantastic week out here in Colebrook. We have seen a lot of success with finding this week. We found 8 new people to begin teaching. I guess I'll tell a story about one of them.
It was a pretty dark afternoon and we were in the middle of planning for Easter. In our zone, the zone leaders text in everytime someone gets a new investigator. We'd been getting texts the whole day from every area in our zone. Then we realized it was just our district who hadn't found anyone. So we decided to join the party and get searching for someone. We were looking at some dropped investigators that hadn't been visited in a while. When we came upon a name. I said we should go visit him. So we booked it outside. I don't know why we were running, I don't know, it just felt right. So after a dramatic drive over to this man's house we get to the door. We knocked on the door and he answered with a blank look on his face. We asked how he and his wife were doing. (we found information that said she was also investigating at one point.) He said he was doing good. But then he started crying. His wife had just passed away on February 6th. We asked if we could teach him a lesson about where she is, and he let us right in. After the lesson he had a smile and tears still in his eyes. It was amazing. We set a return appointment for later on in the week and he accepted it!
We also went on exchanges with the assistants this week. They were very quick. They went from 3pm to 7pm. But it was the most productive 4 hours I think I've ever spent on my mission. Because we knew there would be 2 sets of missionaries in the area that day we set up like 7 appointments, and they were all between that time. We found a few new investigators and we were able to set a baptismal date with the man we taught earlier in the week. It was great. Then the assistants hopped in their truck and drove back to Manchester (which is a looooong drive) so we are not even sure why they came. But they got to experience what it's like up here in the north woods.
I'm starting to enjoy being in Colebrook more and more each day. Even though it's way out there in the middle of nowhere, I'm still finding people to share the gospel with, and it's been a big blessing to me. I hope that when all of you that find yourselves in very interesting situations you can look around and see the blessings that you receive. It may be hard sometimes but all you really need to do is open your eyes.
See ya everyone!
Border patrol is everywhere up here.
A dog sitting on my foot.
The river is finally running again.
Pictures of the town.
The Balsams, an abandoned resort.
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