Hello friends and family!

Good heavens what a week it has been. We found a new investigator this week! His name is Bernard and we met him while knocking. The night before, during nightly planning, we were looking at the map on our iPads for a street we could knock and I chose a pretty decent-sized street. We got there the next day and there were literally like 4 houses on the street...But we knocked it anyway and Bernard was the in the first house! It was really cool. We talked a lot about the afterlife and he invited us back! We went the next day and taught him the plan of salvation. He seemed to really enjoy it and he said it made sense. He said we could come back and teach him more! So that was a huge blessing to find him.

Then Thursday we had interviews with President. It was really nice to talk to him and receive advice and encouragement from him. It was also really nice to Sister Turvey. She made me feel great after talking to her! I seriously love her! After, we received training from the Assistants which was really helpful. The whole day was just very much needed and very motivating.

Saturday we tried by this former investigator named Steve. We found out he stopped his interest because he had a lot of questions and concerns about the Book of Mormon and prophets etc. We went in and taught him and tried to answer his questions and, thanks to the training we received from the assistants, I think succeeded at answering his questions and made him interested in learning more
again!

Yesterday was...rough. Michael called and said he needed to talk to us. We went over there and he said that some conflict came up and he told us he can't join the church. So uh, that was one of the hardest things to hear. We asked him to pray about it and he's going to. We're still going to see him on Tuesday so we'll hear back from him then. Then the rest of our day consisted of all of our plans falling through. BUT, I think because we were fasting, we received a huge blessing of keeping a positive attitude all day. I really have no idea how we did it though because we wanted to be sad and throw ourselves a pity party but for some reason we just stayed positive and were able to still be happy. I have such a strong testimony that Heavenly Father cares about all of us. He loves us and wants what is best for us. Sometimes we just have to be patient both with ourselves and those
around us.

I love you all and hope you have the best week! xx

Love
Sister Montgomery

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