October 17, 2022 - Downtown

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 Well here's the recap for the past few weeks! It's been busy, we had transfers so I got transferred and I'm still in Reno so I'm pretty excited about that. Sad to leave my last area after 7 months but it was a good ride while it lasted. We cover some crazy areas so there's never a dull moment. 4th street that place is wild. Anyway my new comp is Elder Montgomery and he's from Austin Texas. It's been a good time, we've had a lot of success already. There's a lot of potential with everyone we're working with. It's hard because all of the people we're working with are so close they just need to make the next step. They've said how they feel good when we meet, they feel peace and happy when they read and pray but then they feel like they haven't been getting an answer. We're trying to help them realize that, that is their answer. Hopefully they can gain a testimony soon. One of our friends Alfredo is in a wheelchair and he's cracked at wheel chair basketball. He said they have volunteers who play with them so we're gonna go play wheelchair ball with him soon. 

Other than that here are some highlights:

- We saw a lady walking her pig

- We recreated the classic Lebron and Dwayne Wade photo

- Turns out I'm not as good at spikeball as I thought lol

- We had 3 people at church

- We spoke in church so we talked on the Book of Mormon and the Holy Ghost to help our friends at church




Quick thought:

Elder Rasband gave a fire talk on the Book of Mormon and flooding the earth with it. The Book of Mormon is the keystone and there's so many opportunities to share it. In the next week or month yall should look for opportunities to give a Book of Mormon out!

Elder Barlow🦈











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