Ohio Cleveland Mission

"Thou art called to labor in my vineyard, and to build up my church, and to bring forth Zion, that it may rejoice upon the hills and flourish.
Behold, verily, verily, I say unto thee, thou art not called to go into the eastern countries, but thou art called to go to the Ohio.
Inasmuch as my people shall assemble themselves at the Ohio, I have kept in store a blessing such as is not known among the children of men, and it shall be poured forth upon their heads. And from thence men shall go forth into all nations."

Doctrine and Covenants 39:13-15

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Cleaning out week…


Hi!  Looks like you guys had fun! By the way that shirt Ryan is wearing in the zip line is totally mine unless he got the exact same one.  Ali K gave that to me when she went on her cruise.  Those shirts will still be good when I get home so tell him to stay out of my clothes.  :) (brotherly love 2,000 miles away)
My week was pretty uneventful.  Lots of tracting and stuff.  Met a lot of new people though. I spent like 2 hours calling everyone in the phone with PI next to their name.  (potential investigator)  Got like 3 appointments out of it so that was good!  I still have another 50 to call though haha, there were 546 contacts in our phone so I am kinda cleaning it out. I have done a lot of that in this area haha, the apartment, the dead pool, the ward mission process the car.   Sister Jacklin even brought us over a carpet cleaner and is making us clean our carpets today.  That's just what I want to spend my P day doing...  oh well. 
We taught a family named the ______ last night.  They are friends of the people the Gibbs are friends with.  It went really well and the wife has sooo much potential but the husband just won't give it a chance.  He just thinks the Bible is all he needs and anything God wants him to learn is in there and he just wants to debate doctrine with us.  I read him Jacob 4 like 4 verses from the end.  It was cool cuz I was reading it that morning and never noticed what it said.  But basically told him the Jews literally had the promised messiah, the very son of God in the flesh standing right in front of them and the "looked past the mark" and "sought for things which they could not understand"  Basically I told him we are offering him the fullness of the gospel and more truth and he is looking past the mark and wont let go of his traditions to see what is right in front of him.  He  (along with a ton of other Christians) is just denying that God can reveal more and they are limiting his power.  He didn't really change or anything, but hey maybe the spirit will touch his heart, I don't know.  Awesome family though.  Would be amazing members.  
That's about it for my week.  I realized I haven't sent a memory card home since like March so I am gonna send it home this week so be looking for it.  Hope you have an awesome week!! 
Love and miss you!!

Elder Skalla
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