We went to the Sequoias last Monday. Also Transfers

Last week we went to the Sequoias. We didn't get back till about 5, so I didn't have time to email.

We went with Brad and Bri. We drove all the way to the General Sherman. Good old William Tecumsah is one of my favorite Cival war generals. I also like his name. The General Sherman Tree is the Biggest one in the World. It was cool. We also got some ice cream in 3 Rivers. It was a lot of fun, but the drive took forever.

We have had a really good last two weeks. We found 8 new investigators this week. We'll see how good they are later. Elder Wright and I had found more than 177 groups of potential investigators this transfer. I ran out of space, and filled up some sticky notes.

We went on a team up with Brother Foxley yesterday. We went to visit a potential investigator named Salene, but she was gone. Instead we taught a LA member named John and a new investigator named Shannon. John has the nickname of Happy, and he is homeless. I've ran into him a few times. Brother Foxley used to be his home teacher. We taught about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and John left the lesson at the end Crying. It was neat. Brother Foxley teaches our gospel Principles class, and it is really good. He is a high councilman.

I have been blessed to notice the powerful change that comes to investigators as we take time to read from the Book of Mormon with our investigators. As we read with investigators, they invite themselves to church, and want to experience the change that comes through the gospel. I love the Book of Mormon. We can see this especially with an Investigator named Oz. With him we basically just read with the Book of Mormon. We also saw it with Jonathan this week.

We had Emily and Alavaeh, Brad and Bri, and Megan come to church this Sunday. President Clark was there and got to meet them all. They all loved it and had a good experience.

All of the investigators that we had at church on Sunday are very prepared, and will all be baptized soon. As we taught the Doctrine of Christ from third Nephi 11 with our investigator Emily and her granddaughter Alavaeh we had Alavaeh stop us every time we read the word baptism, repentance, and Holy Ghost. As we read the chapter, Emily told us quietly, " That's what I want." It was powerful.

We are close to baptizing Junior. It has taken longer than it should have.

We had a lot of cool stories this week. Here is a taste.

We were trying to visit a potential investigator named Ethel. She wasn't home so went to her neighbors house because an older Black man and his daughter were outside. It is already really hot over here in Tulare, so I walked in and asked the man for some water. He looked at us and said, "This is the craziest thing all day, and it's been a crazy day! I wonder What God is trying to tell me. I have never had two White men walk in my yard and ask me for water before. He got us some water. He told us that we could come back another day and share our message with him. 

As far as Transfer go, I am staying in Tulare again. Elder Wright is leaving to go to Visalia. The Zone leaders moved from Tulare to Porterville, and we are getting a new set of Sister Missionaries in Tulare.

The plan is that we will go Home teaching with the Elders and High Priests, and Priests, and the Sisters will go visiting teaching with the Relief Society. It should be very good.

We get to team up with Tim finally.

Love,

Elder Keeley