With the weather taking a turn for the worse, our best method of finding people (walking around the lake at Cyfarthfa park) is no longer so viable.
To compensate, Elder Hanson and I have been alternating between tracting doors and messaging people over social media. We have seen some really remarkable success. In one case, we knocked on a door and a man opened. He told us he had the football (soccer) game on so he couldn't chat but then mentioned he knew the bishop of the second ward here in Merthyr. We kept chatting with him, just asking about his family and his work, and we found out he was a pretty remarkable guy. Before long our conversation shifted to the gospel and he accepted an invitation to read the Introduction of the Book of Mormon and let us come back to follow up next Wednesday.
When I was companions with Elder Murphy over a year ago in Deltona, Florida, he shared with me an insight regarding how Nephi and his brothers convinced Ishmael and his family to follow them into the wilderness. They first gained favour in Ishmael's sight, THEN they shared the words of the Lord with him, and THEN the Lord softened Ishmael's heart. In a like manner, we saw Alan's heart softened as he realized we were genuine and as he felt the Spirit.
Also had an exchange with the elders serving in Aberystwyth (pronounced Abb-er-ist-with). They live two hours away over in West Wales. They have a massive area but only a small branch. I had an opportunity to tract an entire estate, albeit a small one, with the elder serving there. The Welsh people are incredibly kind. Unfortunately that doesn't always equate to interested. We did share a couple of copies of the Book of Mormon though. After tracting we then went to the Aberystwyth coast. The weather was incredibly windy and the sea was raging. We only had one copy of the Book of Mormon left on us and it was in Welsh. Lo and behold, guess who ran into a man who speaks and reads fluently in Welsh. His name was David but they shorten that to Dai here.
Have a good one!
Elder Desmond Killian
Pic #1 - Cefn viaduct (Cefn is pronounced Kevin) this structure is out in the middle of nowhere, we saw it while driving last P-Day and decided to investigate
Pic #2 - elder Hanson and I in the stocks at Cardiff castle, I can't remember if I already shared this one
Pic #3 - all the Merthyr elders with Graham after the adult session of general conference, Graham is the best
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