Elder Carlson in Philly: Phillyeet

Hey y'all!

Pretty solid week. We got to teach Raquel Williams again, and she's super solid! I definitely think she'll get baptized, she said the closing prayer, and she said "thank you for putting the free bible add on my phone, and sending these elders to my house and allowing me to finally feel peace", so freaking awesome!! We had golden retraining this week just to get some extra training for people who are new, and I got to see Elder White (Ethan) which was flippin' awesome. We've haven't been able to teach many people this week cuz people always cancel last minute, which I mean u can't do anything about so no use getting upset over it, but lol. We still haven't been able to contact Sherriff, but I still have high hopes for him, but also his baptism date is the 24th sooooo....but never distrust the Lord's timing. OH!!!! So we've been handing out tickets for the Gladys Knight performance at our church, for those of you who don't know who she is she was super popular in the 70's and 80's, and she joined the Mormon church in the 90's, and she put up a free gospel performance with her choir, it was super cool! Everyone was yelling "AMEN" or "HALLELUJAH" after like every word sung and spoke, we got a lot of referrals from that, I got to meet her daughter after it, and tell her a little about how I sing, and have been for years and love her gospel music and whatnot, it was super cool! My crew (me, my companion, Elder Sandberg, and Elder Chauncey) who are my "brothers" in the mission that we do everything with, got to go to the Philadelphia temple which was super cool, it was BEAUTIFUL! The church is true y'all! It becomes more real to me as it has been basically my life out here, it truly brings more joy than anything. Hope y'all are having a good week, and thank you to everyone that went to help with Houston, miss and love y'all!