September 14, 2015
Dear Family and Friends,
Transfer calls came in and I'm staying here in
Greenville. My companion Elder Berry is getting transferred to my old area in Newport
News. My new companion is going to be Elder
Dickerson.
We had exchanges with some elders in Kinston on
Wednesday and Thursday. Apparently Kinston is in the top 15 most dangerous
cities in the U.S. In East Kinston people die violent deaths every day. Kinston
is a scary looking place it is really ghetto.
Many of the people that we teach have not been
educated, as they should. Sometimes it can be really hard to teach them since
their level of learning and understanding is low. We taught a married couple a
few days ago about the Book of Mormon, and they didn't really understand much
of the details. This has taught me that it is the spirit that is the teacher and
not us.
We did a walk and talk at the Collard festival down
in a small town called Ayden on Saturday. Elder Berry and I ended up talking to
a lot of people there.
We had a pretty funny experience at the mall in
Greenville the other day. We were talking to people and passing out cards, when
a guy yelled at us and said, “You know what y’all are talking about is heresy
right? Joseph Smith and all that is heresy.” Elder Berry responded and
asked if he had prayed about Joseph Smith.
The man responded that he had. So, apparently he was lacking real intent
when he asked God or he didn’t ask at all and just told us that he did.
When we went over to one of our investigator's
apartments we found that he was drunk.
He told us that we should stop all our preaching and just chill. Then, he offered us to sit down and take a
beer. We left and we dropped him from
our teaching schedule.
We are still working with Larry but it has been
difficult to visit him. He recently got a job in Raleigh so he's gone for the
entire week and then returns to his home for Saturday and Sunday. We had a
really good lesson with him Saturday night and we reset him with a baptismal
date for the 17th of October!
I hope that everyone has a great week.
Love,
Elder Cannon
