Bryce Serves Baltimore

 Hello  Everyone, It's been a great week!  Friday we taught 4 lessons!! That was awesome!!! The first one was a guy named John Moore.  He was a referral we got from the Elders in Baltimore City.  We knocked on his door praying he'd be home and he was! He let us in and we taught the restoration! He agreed with it all!! He said that he knew there had to be a prophet on the earth but he didn't know where! How awesome is that?! He accepted a soft invite and we are going back on Wednesday to teach his whole family.  The other one i want to tell you about is George.  I met him on the street a while ago and every time we tried by he was never home.  I convinced my comps to try one more time.  As i knocked i prayed so hard that he would be home.  He answered and let us in. He explained his work schedule was crazy the last little bit and that he was actually about to leave when we knocked.  He thanked us for not giving up on him. He reads ...

Happy Halloween,  This week was insane!! Good and bad!! We had 2 amazing days in a row.  We decided to make a goal to find someone or get a referral for each one of us this week.  We prayed and asked for help finding 3 people we could get in with and baptize this transfer.  That day we came in contact with at least 5 solid people. One we gave to the sisters and she is doing awesome! The others we are getting in with today and at our trunk or treat. Some members invited their neighbors and we gave them a church tour.  They are now wanting to learn more and THEY asked us how long it takes until they can get baptized! We have gotten at least 1 referral a day! God really blesses you when you turn to him and ask for help.  Now onto the bad(ish) part of my week.  On Friday I was emergency exchanged to Clarksville. The elders there weren't doing well with each other and the assistants had to go and keep the peace until we could get there.  They called ...

Hello All! Its crazy to think its been 2 months! It feels like it flew by but it has been forever long too!! This week was busy! On Tuesday we just procelited and helped Elder Palmer get ready to leave! Wednesday we dropped him off and got our new companion, Elder Ainsworth.  We got a few groceries, went home and dropped everything off. Then we had service until like 4, planned, studies and went proceliting around 6.  Thursday we had service for someone, after that My comps had a meeting with the DLs so the normal Joe blows got together and I got to drive for the first time in 2 months and we went to a couple of potentials.  After that we went back and did normal proceliting.  Friday we helped a member roof his shed! My Eagle Project came in handy and I shingled it with him! Again we didn't procelite until around 6! Before we went out I said a prayer asking since we didn't have a lot of time to be guided to where we could find someone and maybe get a referral....

Hello Again, Transfers are this week.  I am staying in my area!! Elder Palmer is the new assistant so I'll be getting a new companion.  I'll miss him but he'll do awesome!! It's nice being companions with the zone leaders we get to do exchanges once or twice a week. I get to work with other missionaries and learn different ways to do the work. Earlier this week we saw a guy working on his car so I went and talked to him and asked what was wrong and it was something I had fixed in the jeep so I told him what he needed to get and do to make it work and then I gave him a Book of Mormon and a card with our number on it.  He called us a couple days later and told me what I suggested to do on his car worked and that he wanted to hear our message!! Today we just played sports with our zone,(the sisters made me pumpkin cookies and made me a card for my birthday) we went to Five Guys for lunch, thanks for the gift card Mom and Dad! and this morning i opened my presents!! I...

Hello Everyone! This week was pretty lax! just the normal contacting and handing out copies of the Book of Mormon.  We had a trainer- trainee meeting with the president and I got to see all my MTC buddies!! That was really cool!! As for my week its been pretty normal! There was one guy I'd given a card to before that we saw on his porch.  We went up to him and talked to him and he was very interested.  We talked for about 15 minutes, gave him a Book of Mormon and asked him to read the intro, and then started to walk away.  I felt prompted to go back and ask to bring up Mormon.org on his phone (he was watching Netflix when we walked up)  He let me pull it up and I explained what is was about and asked him to look through it and watch some of the videos.  2 days later we were in the same neighborhood and saw him on his porch again.  We decided to go up to him and as we got closer we saw he was reading something or on his phone again.  As we got ...

Hello Everyone ,  First off Maryland is BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! And very humid!!! It's been hard getting used to everything and getting  comfortable talking to random people.  The rejection is rough too.  However, I got us a new potential investigator yesterday!!!  We were walking on the street and I stopped to give him a pass along card and then we ran into him again so I talked to him some more and gave him a Book of Mormon, a restoration pamphlet, and asked if we could teach him some time.  We are going to see him on Thursday.     On my first day after meeting my trainers we helped a Korean lady change a tire! I did service like an hour into my mission!!! I'm serving in Ellicott city!! I have 2 trainers because they are zone leaders and  I love my comps! They are so awesome!!!  Sorry this is so short!  I will have more time to write next week.  Your letters and emails are great!  Please keep them coming! ...