I had a good week this week. Now, to be honest, it
wasn't necessarily good as in the fact it was still just about as
terrible as last week, but it was better because I was better.
Monday we had one member present lesson which the members basically
taught which worked for us we were there basically as observers. well
we then went and picked up the elders coming in for the trainer trainee
meeting on Tuesday. We got Elder Garf and Elder Lopez. It was nice. We
were all pretty quiet and not very talkative, but that worked okay with
me. Well we also bought a little bit extra in groceries, just in case they
were big eaters but they weren't.
Tuesday, got up early
and got ready and got to our meeting. As trainers we discussed stuff. The trainees got trainings from President and Sister Weston, so that
was good for them. We then ate food and enjoyed ourselves being healthy young missionaries
or eating lot, I didn't eat that much but in those days because of how
far the stake center is I would say we used about 80 miles or so in
total so we shot our miles for a while. So we got back
out of our meeting and we decided to park our car and walk all day
because it was sunny, and the tank was clean, The Tank was clean! Well we
had some miracles because we got a ride up, to the area we were planning
to knock, from a member from the English ward who I know. He also wants
us to help him reactivate his Spanish friends, which we have been trying
to work with. So it was awesome! We got to talk to some people, not as
many as we had hoped, but because of that it all worked out because Hermana Mejia had changed the day of when we were eating with her family
to that day, last minute, and our food was to go and the other Elders had
picked it up. So we actually tracked right onto their street. We walked down the street and had some dinner then walked over to the
projects and had a lesson with some of our recent converts. It was good,
and because it was a little cold out no one was outside.
Wednesday
we had a good lesson with a less active. Her problem is that Mormons
don't like her product Herbalife, or something like that. So we are having
the ward mission leader look into it for us so we can teach her the Word of Wisdom and not get caught fighting over things we actually agree
on. Then we taught our recent converts again, helping them with their
scripture study so that they will build the habit and learn how to read,
and gain understanding.
Thursday
we got, again, only one lesson in and it was good. We found some
potentials, but just one less active lesson. It was good, we watched The Restoration video with them and talked about faith. We are getting
the sister that has changed churches actually sitting down to watch the
movies. We aren't even directly inviting her, so it is cool. We
made her a deal (approved by the mission president) if she comes to our
church the next Sunday
we will go to hers. So it will be interesting to see if she will really
take us up on it, because she hasn't come yet. Also for dinner the family fell
through because of parent teacher conferences but the day quickly left to
meet us at the K-mart Little Caesars and buy us a pizza, so that was
nice of him. Then after that we were calling to confirm with the English
member, who has a sweet name Israel, and he is also Hispanic but he speaks
awesome English and Spanish. Well they invited us over with their
elders for food too. So that was a miracle, because we planned out our
lesson
Friday
we did weekly planning and got one lesson. So that was good. We had a
good little lesson with another less active and had a good dinner
appointment, and then went with the English member Israel to go to their
friend's house. They weren't there and the daughter said come back in
an hour. So we did and nothing. It was sad, but we did our best.
Saturday was awesome we taught three super solid lessons and wow, investigators
really can just open up to you sometimes without you even asking. We
read with this one guy named Pedro. He is super sincere and wants to
learn. He is just hesitant because he doesn't know very much about the
gospel or scriptures in general, but he is eager to learn. The other
investigators we taught were the neighbors of a member. It was super
cool because they are JW, and it was fun because we stuck to The Restoration and blew them out of the water. They were like that makes
sense, that is all true information and a super cool conclusion. They
asked some really sincere questions and I think they will be baptized
soon! Then the last lesson, wow it was weird. The wife is a less active,
the husband is catholic, and all the children are members who are married
in the temple. So we came in, he has been very quite with us the
past couple times, and he was like, "Okay are we going to pray? Do you have
a scripture for me what is the plan?" So he then went off on everything
he didn't like about the church, and basically it centered on false
information and temples and conspiracy theories. I was like "Really? Let's look at the facts, false information gone. Temples lets look at the
bible, wrong! and lastly conspiracy theory bible and personal testimony
your ideas are wrong. And guess what we can debate for hours on end but
it all comes back to The Book of Mormon. Read it and pray about it and
then we can talk more about things and expound the doctrines, but this
conversation will go nowhere if we don't even open The Book of Mormon." So he is going to read!!!!!! I rebuked him saying, "Listen either you
are going to heaven or your children and grandchildren are, but not both
of you in either of our doctrines. So you need to decide what you are
doing and whose side is righ,t then get to that side and bring your
family."
Sunday
we got two decent lesson in and we had a good day at church. The
sacrament meeting was weird, it turned into a thanks for your service... I
need to go bye. I love you!!
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