This week has been great I can't
give the best run down because I forgot my journal but I will do the
best I can. Well we have a couple more pretty solid investigators now.
Though it was an interesting process of finding them, the first is Angel
he isn't new but I think we might be able to make some progress with
him. Second is we have two ladies named Leti and Maria and we teach them
in their dress shop/women's apparel shop, basically if a girl wears it it
is on a manikin, so ya it is definitely the most interesting teaching environment I have ever been in because they have people coming and
going and my comp and I are the only two guys in the shop. So it is
definitely an interesting experience to say the least, however it helps
to have the companionship of the spirit because when we are focusing on
the investigators we have super powerful moments and we have been able
to give them both baptismal commitments but we still have work to do
and luckily my greenie fire is paying off, though Johnson thinks it is
just me and not necessarily the fact that I am a greenie. We are working
with a man named David but he has been hard to catch at home, but we have
had the opportunity to talk with his son and he has two sons who are old
enough to be baptized and this is super cool because it went from
having one investigator to having 3. And it really is cool because we
know a family that has kids about their same age, so we will be able to
help fellowship them into the ward nicely. And we have Saturday night
soccer which is really fun and important, because our ward struggles with
unity and so we are helping, as missionaries, to build ward unity and to
be unified with the ward. And I love the members they are so awesome and
we are seeing some amazing miracles that really are rather simple. So
next investigator is a man named Rigo and it is funny because when we
tried to contact him earlier it is when we bumped into that preacher. Well we tried to contact another potential and his friends answered the
door and were like ya he left ten minutes ago which was weird to them
because he never leaves at that time and we had no one left to try but
Rigo and it wasn't quite time to go home and we both felt lets go see
Rigo. Well we pull up and we talk to the man outside and he is Rigo's
roommate and it just so happens Rigo is there and we teach him and we
discover Thursdays are the ONLY day we can teach him and if our other
potential had been home it wouldn't have worked out. And wow it was so
cool to see the Lord's hand in that because it simply would never would
have worked for us to ever find him but we also are next lesson going
to hopefully teach his roommate as well. So that is super cool because we
have more investigators and which means more things for us to do, and we
also have less actives so now we can focus less on finding and more on
finding while we teach and teaching when we find and not trying to knock
doors all day which we practically have done and ya. In general things
are going well, my mission funds card has not been working so I have
been using my debit card. So it should be working now, which I am super
excited about, I just feel bad about how often I had to call the mission
office and talk with Elder Nelson. So I can't think of much else, oh we
got a reference from an English member in Council Bluffs for this man
who was super prepared and asking for the missionaries and super humble
and prepared and "golden", he is not the "Golden," he sounded like. However, we are going to see if we can work with him because he has great
questions he just doesn't sound super interested, but I'm sure we can
change that. That is the summary of my week. We did have one other thing,
Zone Training, it isn't bad it was rather interesting but one thing
that sucked is: one of the Elders in my district, who we do lots of
carpooling with because they only have 550 miles these three weeks
instead of 700 so we have had to help them. Well he got us with some
other elders in another zone and got us free lunch at Golden Coral and
that was really nice, except we can't leave until he wants to leave and
we lost track of time and if we had left when we said lets go we could
have made it but being a butt he didn't leave with any haste and we missed it and so whenever they say exact obedience it will be that way
and we are not going to let him mess us over with dinner appointments
because every time we are with him he messes us over with being a sack.
He is always you better be early so we get to this on time then he is
always the one late. But I am working on loving him and encouraging him
to do better, but unfortunately I am fighting a battle practically on my
own my companion supports me but he values the other elder's friendship. I
can't judge him because I don't know his story but lets just say from
what I have gathered it is a miracle he is on a mission. I just wish he
wouldn't drag me down with him but I know I am doing my best and that is
all that counts.
Love Elder Logan Draper
P.S. The small and simple miracles are the best in missionary work because they can and do happen everyday. Sincerely,
Elder Logan Joseph Draper
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