This week we saw a lot of success reaching out to less actives, we were able to see three of them. The most notable of them being our lesson with David Knight. He is the first person that Elder Ormsby baptized on his mission, but unfortunately he is a less active. We saw him and we were able to get Brother Flinn a member of the bishopric out on that teach with us.
The lesson ran really smoothly, but halfway through Brother Flinn brought up James A. Cullimore he said that he was a very good speaker. He also asked me a few other questions about him. I actually have a pretty crazy story to tell you guys about that.
I have been hearing a lot about James lately, but it peaked when elder Frederickson told me this. I will copy and paste what Elder Frederickson said in his email that he sent out this week.
"I also had a really cool experience this week with family history. I decided to use some of the Work of Salvation internet hour to go on Family Search and work on the My Family book. I was reading up on one of my great-grandfathers on my mom's side of the family. Naturally, I wanted to see if he served a mission.
According to the document, he did... and his first companion was James A. Cullimore... Elder Cullimore's great-grandfather. WOW. When I read that, I felt something extremely powerful. As if there weren't enough crazy things about the fact that Elder Cullimore and I were companions! When I was skyping my family yesterday, I asked my grandma about all of this and she confirmed it and added that James Cullimore and my great grandfather were best friends. Wow. Talk about the Spirit of Elijah! I immediately formed a bond with my great-grandfather, a man I never met, and strengthened my bond with one of my best friends. What a blessing Family History work is! "
That just blew my mind elder Frederickson's great-grandfather served with mine how crazy! and they were best friends. I bet President didn't realize all of these things when he decided to have elder Frederickson train me.
