Elder Dallin Schipaanboord: Elder Renslow

This week has been a good one! Thank you all for the birthday wishes, it means a lot to me and gave me some extra motivation! So I got a new companion, and he is so awesome!!! Elder Renslow and I have already had some really funny experiences and have had some cool spiritual experiences as well, it is going to be a really good transfer!

Sadly we didn't get to visit with Jim Brown this week, we went to his house but he wasn't home, so we are hoping to see him this week and hear some good news from him. We also didn't get to visit with the Jenkins... they were super busy and couldn't meet, but we have big plans for this up coming week for both of these guys.

Elder Renslow and I went on a split with a guy with downs syndrome named Danny (42 years old). We thought that it was going to be so bad and that we wouldn't enjoy it, but it was so fun! He has such a powerful testimony and made sure to tell everyone about it! He is such a funny guy and made us laugh so much! He served a 6 month mission in the Florida Tallahassee Mission as well!!!!

We had two awesome lessons this week. One with the Mallory's and one with a new investigator named Joey. We went up to the Mallory's and talked with them about patriarchal blessings. They thought that it was so cool and wanted to work towards getting theirs. We also talked with them about going to the temple and how they can do baptisms for the dead. They want to do all that they can to get to the temple, so they are going to talk to the Bishop this week about it! The lesson with Joey was pretty cool. We just got to know him and shared the Book of Mormon with him and he seemed really interested and said he was confused on why there are so many churches around the world. We are meeting with him tonight to go over the restoration with him, he is so solid and is going to love it!! On Sunday, we had a kid who we have been trying to work with show up to church!! He works on the food truck owned by a member and has had lots of questions about the church, so we are going to start working with him as well! His name is also Joey, so we get confused when talking about them hahaha.

I am so exited for this transfer, there is going to be great things happening and there are going to be some amazing miracles happen, I just know it!! I hope that all of you have a great week!

Love Elder Skippy

First moments with Elder Renslow.

Elder Renslow and I out knocking on doors, met some atheist dude who told us we were playing a video game, and our lives were fake, because we believe in god. oh good times hahahaa.