Dear Family and Friends
I am super excited to be
writing you. This is my last week here with Elder Paonessa. He leaves
next Wednesday, but really we separate on Tuesday, and from then until
Friday I am in a trio, which will be interesting to see how that goes.
So Monday was a complete flop in regards to work. We had played
basketball and then we ended up going to dinner at a members house, but
we had to wait for the husband to get home. So we got done around eight,
because I don't really know why. Then we just went home after the
other Elders dropped us off at our car, because it was 8:45 and we had no
set appointments.
Tuesday we had some good lessons and
appointments, we also had an oil change. So I got some extra study time
and scripture marking time for a lesson we were going to be doing on the Plan of Salvation, which when it came to the lesson it was a rebuke of
the false doctrine that not all people are children of God and you need
to read The Book of Mormon. If people would sincerely read The Book of
Mormon how much greater our success would be and, wow, so much is
dependent on this one book, and we are paralyzed without it. Well we did
splits to try doing two lessons at once. One with a man named Rigo, who
reads but never comes to church and he is super hard to contact, and the
other with a neighbor of a member. I took a member to Rigo's, but he
wasn't there so we tried some other people. Then we decided to offer our
help to these people moving some tools. Then we tried to explain to this Catholic guy some of our beliefs, but he wouldn't hear it. So I just let
him rail on me, because it is Spanish and I can't fight him but I could
prove him wrong. Ya it frustrated me. Then we went and had a lesson
with a MA family and it was good. They are going to do better about
reading The Book of Mormon, Yah!!!!
Wednesday we had
a super long zone training and also it was so cold they canceled school,
the wimps. It was only 10 degrees Farenheight but supposedly it was
supposed to be colder and work, such as construction jobs, were cancelled. There was set a maximum of 15 min. outside due to the cold temperatures,
but that doesn't really matter because we have a car. We got two good
mini lessons in and I felt like it went well over all, except for the
hour or more over zone training but whatever.
Thursday
we got two great Member presents with our bishop, he is such a great
guy I love working with him. We also went to dinner at Grand China Buffet and I gave out a Book of Mormon, it was awesome.
Friday we had a good weekly planning session and, sadly, we didn't find
anyone at home. We had dinner with the Ortega Family. Hermana loves me
because I love her food and I compliment it, and I am a hard worker and
she can see it I am the obedient one. She feeds me and Pao despite
her not liking Pao, which is kind of sad but he offended her in my first
transfer. Saturday was also slow not really finding anyone, but we are
working on our potentials.
Sunday we had a super
cool member present where we had me rebuke the investigator and the
member fix it up and make them feel better . It was so nice, the Spirit
was strong, and I think that they are now going to start to read The Book
of Mormon for real, even if just a verse a day. I am excited to see their
progress.
I love you all and this gospel and I will write you next week
LOVE Logan J. Draper the Elder Draper
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Sincerely,--
Elder Logan Joseph Draper
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