Thank you all so much for the prayers for Phillip! He's going out of town these next two weeks and he said afterwards he is going to move in with a friend of his that he met! Once that happens he will start coming to church but it might be in another ward so we'll see once he finds out the address. I would love to keep teaching him and help him progress to baptism and prepare him for the temple. However, if he's in a different ward and those things are still happening, I'll be happy.
We do have a recent convert though named Wayne who said he's starting to not believe in Joseph Smith being a prophet of God because he hasn't been able to feel the spirit when he reads the Book of Mormon. So about Wayne, he fully owns his house but before he was a member he let some people come and stay at his house and some of them were prostitutes. So now over the years there are a bunch of people who live there and come in and out and there are a lot of bad things that go on in that house. He quit smoking and everything else to join the church but never kicked all these people out of his house because what he said was that he verbally agreed to let them stay and apparently its against Florida law or something to go against verbal agreement. I don't know how that would work but we just think he doesn't want to kick them out because if he does then he will have a bunch of crazy people angry at him which is not a good thing. So we talked to him about how living in a place like that would not have the spirit and he should try reading in his car every night to seclude himself from all the sin and bad stuff that go on around him. Also he hasn't been able to come to church because his car his completely broken down and no one can give him a ride. We also shared with him Elder Holland's talk called "Lord, I Believe", which talks about fanning the flame of your faith by exercising it and not letting it die away and that all things are possible to them that believe. It is a super good talk and something he really needed to hear. He agreed with the message and accepted our invitation to read alone in a secluded place.
We came by another day and he said he was too busy to talk to us and that he is still doubting. He was pretty quick to get rid of us so all we could say was to not forget what he had felt at his baptism and the reasons why he got baptized. We were thinking there might be some people in that house who are probably very anti Mormon and are telling him things that aren't true but all we can do now is to be the only spiritual source he has and try our best to get him back to church and have the spirit more in his life. Please please please pray for him. Your prayers are very much needed for him.
Other than that this week has been a great week for finding! We were focusing on adding ten people a day on Facebook. We didn't quite ge to ten a day but we did a lot better than what we usually get so hopefully these people will turn into some promising new investigators.
I'm so happy I get to do these things every day out here. It's so great helping others see and understand why they are here and what God's plan for them is. There is no greater joy than to see someone's life completely 180 and to see the love of Christ work in them and make them the happiest they have ever been. I love being a missionary!
I love y'all! Thanks for all that you do and continue to strive each day to improve and become who your Heavenly Father wants you to become. Keep on keepin' on!
Love,
Elder Plumb
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