This past week was the first week of Zone Conferences. This next week is the last. 3 conferences each week. 9 hours long. It's exhausting! But I learn a lot from hearing the 8 fundamentals of Preach my Gospel over and over again. Plus all of the practice teaching is helping out a ton!

On Friday we had another lemonade stand at VCU. It was so nice to get out and work after sitting in conferences or in a car all day. There weren't too many people on campus, which was kind of a bummer. I had a couple of cool miracles though! 

1: A couple weeks ago I met a guy from Ghana. I taught a lot of people from Ghana in DC South and picked up on some words in their language (Twi). I hoped to see him again on Friday, so I grabbed a Book of Mormon in Twi right before heading to VCU. After we set everything up, I gave him a call and told him to come to the center of campus so I could give him a book in Twi. He said he didn't read in Twi but would come anyways. That was kind of a bummer. Well he never came, BUT I did meet a man who just got here from Ghana! I quickly grabbed the book and gave it to him. The look on his face was priceless! He said he was running to class, but gave me his number and wanted to talk about the book. We are going to see him this week. His name is Harrison...

2: After lots and lots of people ignoring me, I was trying all sorts of approaches. I got so tired of getting rejected that I just walked up to this one girl and said "Hey you wanna come to church on Sunday?" To my amazement she said yes! She gave me her phone number and I gave her the information. I texted her Saturday night and she said that she needed a ride. So I set up a member to pick her up. Now, each week I text 20 people who said they would come to church, reminding them of the time and place. They never show. Well at 12:55 pm, in comes Deja with the member who picked her up! She stayed for all three hours! Her favorite, which was no surprise to me, was relief society. We are going to see her this Wednesday, and she is excited to come to church next Sunday. She said she can see herself coming consistently. So we are going to put her on date for baptism for October 12th. 

FINALLY! After talking to so many people, so many numbers, so many fallen through appointments... God blesses us with a miracle. Goes to show you that he is in this work. If we are patient and work hard, things will always work out.

We also had another investigator come to church. He teaches a bible class at the catholic church during the week. He said he would come to our church, if we came to his. So at 5:15, we went to Mass. It's the first time I had ever been. What an experience! My eyes were HUGE the whole time!... It was VERY VERY different, yet there were minor similarities... All I gotta say about that is... The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is TRUE!

The book is blue, the church is true, I'm serving two.

LOVE YA!

Elder Michael Litchfield