June 8, 2009

Super duper,
Sorry but really that's the way I feel right now here in St.Cloud Florida. I'm really coming to love these people and feel of the importance and urgency of the message we share. I would like to share a little experience that really built my testimony that the lord is preparing people for us to teach.
At the beginning of this week I was really just going through the motions doing things because that was what I was supposed to do as a missionary. Well on Wednesday we were tracting in a little gated community and were having a typical day of rejection and no interest. But we came to a house of a twenty five year old who had just carried in some groceries and put them down when we knocked on his door. We started by telling him we were representatives of Jesus Christ and proceeded to ask him a couple of questions. These ?s sparked his interest and so we started to teach him. He was so astonished by the Book of Mormon and how it was a record of the people here in the Americas. When we offered him a free copy he pretty much took it right out of the hands of my companion Elder Delucchi. He was so excited to have the opportunity to read it. So we left him with third Nephi Eleven and set up a return appointment for Saturday.
Well we gave Tim Lenhart, the guy we taught, and call Friday to remind him of our appointment for Saturday. On Saturday he called back with a not so enthusiastic voice and left a message. In his message he said. I was wondering if we could move back our appointment . I only had a chance to ready a few chapters and would like to read more. We were so happy that we probably literally leapt for joy, any missionary knows sometimes how hard it can be to get an investigator to read. Well really i can't express the joy and happiness that has fallen over me because of brother Lenhart, This is some of the most joy I have felt on my mission second the the baptism of the Meadows.
I know that our heavenly father is preparing people to hear the message of the restored Gospel. To every one who has been warned, to him it is given to warn his neighbor. May we all share the gospel with those we love and who need it in their lives.
Love Elder Judd