Dear Family and Friends
Wow what a week it has been! Christmas is gone and I am officially a
dead Sister missionary (Missionary Slang for I have gone home sort of
thing ya Not really and Sister missionaries don't really die at the end
of their mission). So that is Exciting I have less than six months left
to be serving here in The Nebraska Omaha Mission.
As for the run down of my week
Monday
was a little crazy we were only able to see one man, his Name is
Wilfredo he wouldn't let us talk he wanted to more try to teach us and
dominate the conversation so I tried to teach and tactfully take control
I got in a record of Ten Sentences and Elder Sharp despite trying Got
only ONE sentence so we are giving him one last shot before we drop him,
it makes no sense to go and listen to someone Else Ramble when I can
actually go help someone grow their Faith in Jesus Christ
Tuesday We got one lesson in in the Evening but the Exciting thing was
we found a new place to do service through a less active it is Called the Center for People in Need it is awesome we Helped out for a while
there a lot of Arabs work there to build a resume and qualify them for
other jobs in the future so I am Hoping to learn a little bit of Arabic
from them so they feel like I am truly interested in them. a peoples
Language is the key to who they are and How they think. Oh and our
lesson was amazing we all learned. The Family is a part member Family
and the mom has been reactivated and the kids are recent converts and
the dad is still working some things out but we taught them about
spiritual gifts and it was amazing, all people have a spiritual gift
that we can use if we have the spirit with us and we seek the will of
Heavenly Father.
Wednesday
We saw another Less active and it was good we had a good lesson with
him about the Why of Church the Why of Reading and the Why of Prayer and
we did in such a way where he was teaching us but he did really well on
explaining his reasons for reading and praying and church he doesn't
understand it really so we know we can help him with that so we now know
what to teach him next time
later on we saw the Member who we are Helping to quit smoke and it was
amazing He gave us Christmas gifts despite the fact he doesn't have much
himself so that was cool and they were heartfelt gifts and it was a
very sacred moment.
Thursday we Saw Three People!
in one day
it was awesome! well back track the less active member who didn't know
or understand the importance of Church his wife who has avoided us out
of I think embarrassment (she has been a member her whole life and she
kind of rebelled and knows better so ya) she invited us over to dinner
and it was a sweet dinner she cooked some delicious food we left full and
we were able to share a good Christmas message WE also Stopped by an
Investigator and we helped her shovel her driveway and talked with her a
little bit and retaught her the Restoration focusing on the apostasy
and Restoration and we hit it I think three times we review the apostasy
and restoration in that lesson alone to show it from different
perspectives and angles. so ya then we found Valdo. Valdo is a member
who has been working out of town for the past month or so so it was
awesome we caught him home we hope to be able to catch him again and
have him over for dinner at another members house the first of January
but it was a good lesson
Friday
We delivered Gifts to our less active members a copy of the book Our Heritage and then depending on if they had kids or not the Movie The
Testaments or Joy to the World so that was good it was a fun thing to do
and I also Video Called HOME!!
Saturday we had one lesson and we invited him to church and he didn't come
Sunday
we saw another less active we hadn't seen in a bit He is doing good he
went down to Crete for church with his Mom and Cousins so ya that was disappointing but he should be coming back next week We Hope so those are
my crazy adventures
We got our cars grounded because of the
massive storm but we only got skiffs of snow and we got total over the
course of the day maybe an inch to two inches so ya it was sad
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Sincerely,
Elder Logan Joseph Draper
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