Elder Barber once suggested to us that when the salespeople of Skopje come up to us on the street trying to sell us their junk, that we try and sell religion back to them. A few months ago, a guy named Marian came up to us as we were sitting on the Alexander the Great statue with a clipboard and gave us a health survey. We started talking to him about the Book of Mormon afterwards and got his phone number. Nothing happened for a while, and then I saw him again one night and we sat and talked for a long time. I decided to call him randomly a week or so ago, but he kept bailing on appointments. Then I saw him again one night and he called me later when he wasn't working asking to meet. Bam. New investigator.
We also keep having lessons with this guy named Deon, who is drunk 50% of the time, but receptive to our message. He doesn't want to pray or read from the scriptures when he's been drinking, which I think shows respect, so that's good. It was really weird because in our first lesson he said something like, "The heavenly kingdom will be here, only the world will be perfect and changed." How did that random piece of mormon doctrine find its way into a Macedonian church? I guess it isn't really mormon doctrine, it's just truth, but as far as I knew no other church believed that.
There's going to be baptism in a few days, two or three of the elders' investigators.
Guess who gets to go to the US army base again tomorrow and teach an institute class to the LDS soldiers there? Me and Sister Schofield. So cool!
1 Corinthians 2:9, "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him."
Love you so much. Keep it up this week,
Sister Riddle
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