First Week on Bikes

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. Mine including a ton of biking (as did the whole week), so needless to say I'm glad it's our week to use the car. We were invited to three homes for dinner. The first one was a less active member. We went over there and he ended up being sick; the rest of his family wasn't members and didn't really know who we were, so it would have been weird for us to stick around. We just filled the time by giving quick visits to a few members and making them aware of the #LighttheWorld initiative (go to mormon.org to learn more - share it with your friends!). That ended up making us a little late to the other two places, so our dinner was a little cold, but still pretty good. We just about had to roll ourselves home by the end of the day. We also got a little bit of football in that morning, too, so that was fun.
I was on exchanges with our district leader on Saturday and that morning during studies we came up with a wonderful idea for contacting people this December. We memorized the story of Christ's birth in Luke 2:7-14 and practiced retelling it during lunch. We also saved some photos on our iPads that went along with the story. We then went out a tried to share it with the people we met. Most people only took cards from us and didn't want to hear our story. We got to the end of the street and decided to start walking back to the car, when we saw an old man in a wheelchair checking his mail. We offered to help wheel him back into the house, and once we were in we offered to share the story of Christ's birth with him; he told us to go right on ahead (our first customer!). Once we were done reciting the scriptures, he was just staring at the picture of the Savior on our tablet. He then asked "How can I get closer to God?" We about fell over; we told him about how to follow Christ's gospel and about how his Church is restored. We set up an appointment for the next day (I just wish it was my area it happened in). My companion and I are definitely going to try to do this this December!
I really love and miss you guys. I appreciate the emails as well. It's always wonderful to hear from you.
Elder Miller