July 27th Letter

Happy Monday!!
The weather is starting to warm back up, but nothing bad. But even better than that, the humidity has been low.
The brake pads on my back tires are non existint but im hesitent to buy new ones because transfers is in two weeks and i dont know if ill be staying here, hopefully i will though. So i think ill just switch out the front ones with the back and hope that lasts, so if i write back next week in a cast, you'll know why.
This last week started off really slow, but it was all worth it. We had appointments cancel left and right with some of our solid investigators so we ended up doing a lot of tracting. It kinda put me in a down mood, but we diligently went forth every morning not slacking. Then on Sat. we were out and we taught a bunch of lessons and got some new potential investigators and return appointments. It humbled me knowing that the Lord blesses those who diligently serve Him. I thought that the Lord had blessed me enough for the week but boy was I wrong. We had an appointment with Wenton last night. Every time we go over there and ask him how he feels he always says "i feel good about [the book of Mormon, Joseph Smith, etc.]" So the last time we were there we left him to read Alma 32 where they talk about the seed. I asked him how he liked it and he opened up to verse 21 talking about faith. And i took off running with that and explained how the good feeling he has been having is the spirit testifying of truth. Then I asked him if he knew the BoM (Book of Mormon) was true. He said "yes" then i asked him if he knew that Joseph Smith was a prophet. He again said "yes." then i had him open up to Mosiah 18:8-10, "if these be the desires of your heart...what have ye against being baptized in the name of Christ?" (warning: quote may be off). When i told him to read it i had no idea what i was doing. we have been talking about baptism for the last few times and i wasnt going to mention it, i just told the Lord that i was putting my trust in Him and that if i had the wrong impression it was all on Him (obviously He knows what He's doing, i just wanted a scape goat). Wenton read it 3 or 4 times and then sat there pondering it for a few min. and said, "we have to be baptized." Elder Reese gave him a "soft" baptismal committment ("as you come to know these things are true, will you be baptized?") and he accepted!! Then i tried to set a date for Aug 22 but he said that he would have to pray about it. We got him a copy of the BoM in French so now he'll be able to understand it better and recive that witness.
Denise is doing really well except that she is still having problems with her boyfriend (shes living with him still). We talked to Bishop Stephens about it and he said that one of them have to move out if she wants to progress and keep the commandments. We'll be on ours knees a lot this week for guidence on this, thats for sure.
Adria is doing well too. her baptism is still on track so we're preping her for that. We're taking her and a few others on the church tour tonight so that'll help.
You'll have to send some pics of the new car. The bishop was talking about getting a new one as well with all the deals going on but he said it helps when he's counciling people for them to see that he's driving a really old car that barely runs, so they dont need a fancy new one, haha.
Yeah the pic. was with the minni. his name was Caleb Nordwald from Mexico, Mo. I'll have to check on Poplar Bluff when i get home. That'd be cool if it was though.
The other week i ran into a friend from BYUI. He was in my mission prep class last semester. he was going to his sisters ward which meets right before ours. it was really crazy to see him.
Keep me updated on how everyone's doing. My prayers are with you all

Love
Elder Egan