Hi everyone,

Things are moving along here, the evangelistic series is soon to begin. We will be passing out brochures for the meetings next week all week, then the meetings begin on Friday night.

I haven’t had much free time so far, I’ve been kept pretty busy. Thank you for all your prayers, God Bless each one of you,

Sincerely

Daniel

PS below is a exerpt from my outreach diary for yesterday. It will give you a little taste of what we have been doing.

Oct 4
Today I felt a little discouraged and Jared was very tired, but we went out and tried to reach a couple of our DVD contacts for the follow up survey, one didn’t answer the phone, and the other said that they were sick and not to come today.
We dropped off all of our droppoffs about 12 in all for today. Some in the trailer park, and some elsewhere. The manager of the trailer park didn’t seem to be home today, or at least he wasn’t out and about.
We went to see Ronald and he was on baby sitting duty, so he said he didn’t want to study, and so we talked for some time, then later just when we were leaving, his wife pulled in. She had looked at the drop off Bible study that we gave him last week, and she saw that there was a whole series, and she wanted to get the whole series: she said that they didn’t have the number one number one and two studies anymore, so we gave her that one. As we came back from the car, we saw Ashley coming to visit them, and when we left she stayed and visited with them. Ashley lives just a few houses down accross the road, and she knows SDAs, and doesn’t agree with them for what ever reason, she didn’t want to get into it when we took the survey with her. She agreed to Bible studies but later flaked out. And today I asked her about it, and she just confirmed that she was not interested, that she was content with her church. But we are just praying that she doesn’t influence Ronald and his wife regarding the seminar coming up, we are praying that instead that Ronald and his wife may have a good influence on her.
We knocked on doors for a while also between Bible studies, and took two surveys and got two Bible studies! One drop off and one in home. Then we came back to the trailer park to study with  the JW that we had scheduled but it was dinner so we agreed to come back at 2pm on Thursday. He is my study, so I am definitely praying about that. . .
We also had the chance to talk with this lady that was also on our list to study with at 5:00, her name is Debra. She seems pretty open, and we were able to talk with her for some time until her father called, then we prayed with her and left, to knock on doors as above. Then later after the JW fell through for today, we were going back to the car and she was on her porch smoking, so we stopped and talked with her some more. She seems very open, and has looked for a church that keeps the Bible as the ultimate authority, and hasn’t been able to find one. We didn’t tell her that  we were SDA and I’m looking forward to studying with her very much, she is Jared’s study.
We went to visit another couple that we have been giving drop off Bible studies for 4 weeks or so now. He is very much opposed to Christianity howbeit some of his family is SDA, and they are always trying to talk to him. We have been able to talk to him also, I was able to share some of my personal testimony and reasons why I believe that God is real. We went there today and found out that her grandson was just killed in Afganistan yesterday, so they are getting ready to have the funeral in Penn Valley since that is where he grew up I guess. We told Richard that we would be praying for their family.
This Thursday is the last day of regular outreach before the evangelistic series starts. Next week we will be passing out flyers for the evangelistic series.