Dear Family and Friends,
It's been another amazing and busy week here in Seminole, I love this area and I love the people here! :)
Monday we drove to Shawnee for P-day and went bowling with the Elders there so that was fun :) In the evening we biked out to the far corner of Seminole and talked with some people and then had dinner with some less-actives. Fun day!
Tuesday was amazing! We had a short lesson with Nick at 11 and then did some finding before we had a restoration lesson with Donna at 12. After a good lesson with her, we grabbed some quick lunch and drove an hour to Norman for interviews and role plays with President. After we got done with interviews, we grabbed some quick dinner and drove to Maud for a lesson with Tonya. Tonya is so solid! She lives right next to a couple of members and she's already pretty good friends with them. She loves the concept of the Book of Mormon and when we taught her more about Joseph Smith she said that she believes it! We're hoping to get her to church and set a date for baptism this next week :)
Wednesday morning we had a lesson with Allen. We're going to have to drop him if he doesn't start keeping commitments. After that a member fed us lunch and our appointments we had out in Holdenville cancelled on us so we went to Wewoka instead. We stopped by Chris's house and he was home. We talked with him for a while and set up an appointment this next week so we can teach him the plan of salvation. He's still pretty interested, hopefully he can make it to church this week. While in Wewoka we also visited a less-active, Lorna. Her kids are special needs and they can be a handful but members in the ward are willing to help out and she made to church yesterday! It was awesome :) When we got back to Seminole we went out for dinner with Bishop's son and then had a quick lesson with Nick and visited Margaret. We finished the night off with ward council at 8 :)
Thursday we woke up pretty early so we could get to Moore by 7:30 for the mission tour with Elder and Sister Echohawk. It was SO much fun! I got to see my Greenie, Elder Hanks, for the first time in months and some of my other friends. I learned so much from President and Sister Mansell and from the Echohawk's. The Echohawks are both converts to the church and it was so cool to here their stories :) When we finally got back to Seminole, we had our dinner appointment and our evening appointments fell through so we started our weekly planning session.
Friday we didn't have district meeting due to the mission tour so we worked on our weekly planning, visited a recent convert, had lunch, our lesson with Nick fell through, and we had a lesson with Donna. Donna didn't remember much of the restoration lesson so we read 3 Nephi 11 with her and the only thing she got out it was that she needs to get baptized. So that was cool :) She's an older lady and has some health issues that makes her believe that she's not physically able to get baptized so we'll see what we can do. After that we visited some members and finished our weekly planning before dinner. After dinner we biked around, visited some members, and got a new investigator named Bo #Miracle So last Friday we were finding in this community housing place and this big Indian guy said he would listen to us if we came back in a week and told him what the Indian 10 commandments are. So we looked up what they are and went back and told them to him. He was pretty surprised that we actually came back and good to his word, he listened to us as we taught him about the Book of Mormon. He seemed pretty intrigued by it and promised to read 3 Nephi 11 before we come back this next Friday.
Saturday morning we had correlation with our ward mission leader. After studies and lunch we invited Allen to church and had a lesson with a less-active. After that we did some finding and then went to Wewoka for dinner with some members. After that we went back to Seminole to watch the adult session of stake conference.
Sunday was stake conference and it was broadcast from Norman. I love being in the Norman stake again! After church we visited a less-active, had lunch with the Choate Grandparents, went to Maud with Bishop's son and got a new investigator named Wesley #Miracle, and then went to Bishop's house for dinner. After dinner we helped their family make a family mission plan which was awesome! The member missionary work is starting to roll here in Seminole and I love it!
Elder Echohawk talked a lot about how conversion is a process, not a one time event. It helped me to see how I'm a convert and how I have a conversion story of my own. We can all become more converted and add more to our conversion stories. I'm determined to share my conversion story more often and to also remember it more often. I'm so grateful conversion, it's the greatest change we can experience in our lives :)
Thank y'all so much for all your love and support!
Love, Elder Larsen
2 Timothy 1:7
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