Picnic With Our Baptist Friends

We have been blessed while out on the mission to be able find ways to meet people that we could share the gospel with or provide service for or assist with family history. We also have several service projects that we do each week. We typically do a weekly plan on Sunday or Monday so we kind of have each day planned out. However, there have been several times when we are a little bit at a loss trying to determine what the Lord would have us do.

We have a couple of Baptist friends that we have done a number of things with, we sit with them at the High School ball games and club house socials. They have had us over along with the young elders for a lunch. They are currently very active in their church and so we have not made a lot of progress teaching them the gospel. I have been able to help the wife with her family history. We got her set up on family search and one of her lines goes back to Joseph of Arimathea. They are good people and we know the restored gospel would bless their lives.

We had not done anything with them for some time and when we would run into them in town the husband would always say, “Call me”. About a month ago I called them and we got a message back that their granddaughter was visiting and they were tied up. Then we ran into them again several weeks ago at the little grocery store in town and had a short visit with them. Sister Anderson is always good to say we need to get together. And the husband again said, “Call me”. I called him several days later and he called back and said, "I will call you on Monday and we will plan something." 

When we did our planning on Sunday, we scheduled in some time to meet with these friends. Well Monday came and no call back from him. Tuesday morning I was thinking about our week and went to the Lord in prayer basically saying we have planned out our week but it is not working out, so we need some help. I got up from the prayer and walked in the kitchen and the phone rang. It was our Baptist friend.

He suggested we have a little picnic lunch together at an old historical park named St. Philippine Duchesne Memorial Park. This is a site that tells a little of the park.

http://www.potawatomi-tda.org/kansas/stphilip.htm

We had a nice visit with them. He has an old bible with his family names which would be a good start for him to do his family history. Back when I assisted his wife when family history, I offered to help him as well, but he declined. However, this time he accepted some help. We are finding that a lot of people out here that are pretty committed to their churches are interested in family history.