We had a petty busy week which is always nice! Tuesday was sick because we had dinner with Caleb and Arthur who both work on base. They got us some Philly cheese steaks from base and met up at the local McDonalds to eat them. They're both legends and so fun to be around !
We went and had lunch with Yasmin on Wednesday after helping her in her garden more. It's so weird though because she thinks were false prophets and trying to deceive her but still has us over which is weird but oh well. We also did some mission prep with a guy named Chris who leaves next week for his mission in Hong Kong! Gonna be legendary!! We also had Naylands baptismal interview this night and he passed with flying colors. I love getting to interview people for baptism because it's such a testimony builder for sure. It's crazy I've been in two wards and in each ward someone has left on a mission while I was there and both were to Hong Kong...wild!
So on Thursday we go to institute at night and we've been working get a girl named Fatima back to church and active again and she's been coming with us for the last several weeks now which has been awesome! We also have been teaching one of her friends off and on for the last couple months but she came to institute on Thursday! Her name is Alex and she's aweosme. We were talking about personal revelation and recognizing the spirit. She shared an experience she had before and started crying during it cause the spirit was so strong! She was saying how she's not an emotional person at all but she didn't know what was happening... We knew! The spirit was testifying to her. It was so great.
Then there's the best part of every week... sports night!!! I look forward to it every week. At the end of the night we committed everyone to come for Naylands baptism and they did! One of the guys names is Paul and he's been coming for years and has wanted to get baptized for so long but hasn't been able to because he lives with his partner. His daughter was baptized a couple years ago and comes to sports night as well and brings her boyfriend Branden who came to church. Naylands brother will also has been coming for years to church as well. It looks really promising that Paul, Branden, and Will could be baptized by the end of the year! All because of sports night. Love that group of people so much!
We balled out with the Filipinos Saturday morning. I've played so much better on my mission than I ever did back home. Haha I drain like 90% of my shots. We impressed these 2 new guys so they invited us to play in the private 5v5 league on Tuesday night's, so we might be taking them up on that offer haha. It costs to play though so we shall she.
We have also been teaching this guy named Chris who lives in Ely (like 40 minutes away from us). We taught him the restoration and during it he and his mom were smoking the whole time and at the beginning I wasn't sure how it was going to go, but it was great! Towards the end he asked us if we could set a date for him to quit smoking by and also if we could bring him a coffee replacement cause he wants to quit that as well. All of this before we even taught him the word of wisdom! While he was saying he wants to quit he's lighting up another cigarette and while smoking it her puts it out. His mom goes "What are you doing you've never done that before!" And he told her "I don't know it just taste really bad right now" wow miracles! We're going to be seeing him Tuesday night again.
So many great things are coming in our mission as we are in the final stretch of this year and pushing to reach our baptism goal as a mission! I'm so excited to see how it all happens and to be an instrument in the Lord's hands here in the Cambridge area! I love you all and love this church!
With love,
Elder Hruby
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