Dear Family and Friends
This week has been full of some more excitement to make things more
interesting. Monday after emails we went to the Christian store again
and that was an amusing adventure and we didn't get anything though but
we were amused by the study bible and the Action bible (comic book
bible) and the funny books about the religions of the world which were
all super biased and had horrible source materials so ya it was sad that
no one can write an accurate piece of literature anymore. Then when we
were done with that we went to good will and looked around there were no
good ties or really anything that we liked which was sad there were no
hidden treasures. We got a lesson with a guy named Benito he was a
referral from the Trendwood Elders and he is a super humble man we
taught him the restoration and he liked it, he was kind of tired so he
wasn't super focused but he made this comment which I feel sad to repeat
but he said, "I have been doing the Catholic Catechism and I haven't
learned anything I know no more about God now than I did before I
started." so we are Jumping to the plan of salvation and hopefully he
will feel like he learned something. I find it sad that such a humble
and good man like Benito can feel that he has never been taught about
God.
Tuesday was crazy! we had Spanish Conference and
we were told it was going to be a two hour meeting with and hour for
lunch and then were to head back home. Well I have never known a
Hispanic function to be on schedule so ya that didn't happen but it was
probably the best Spanish conference that we have ever had. Brother
Dallin from the Omaha Ward gave a training last minute on Spanish
culture and how to be effective in using it and he gave us three Fs
Food
Family
Fiesta
Those right there are the keys to Hispanics and getting them to do
things. He also said Hispanics are a very Bold people they like to hear
it how it is and to not play around we as white people like it to have
things reserved but he said just be Bold straight up tell People WE HAVE
BEEN SENT HERE BY GOD. So that is what we have done. and so far so
good. He also said that we need to sing Hymns with Hispanics and they
will love it and he promised that it would soften their hearts and make
church more familiar and not scary. We also had some other Good
language training's and that was good but Brother Dallin's training was
by far the best training that has ever been given at a Spanish
conference that is really why we all went and he was even called at the
last minute so that was all prepared by God.
Later that
day we didn't have any success until the evening when we were trying a
potential investigator a Referral and we walked up to him just as he
came outside to smoke and we asked him "are you Martin?" yes "We have
been sent by God to share an important message with you" oh yes of
course I talked with your associates the other day come on in. We took
brother Dallin's advice and Oh wow it worked we sang Israel Israel God
is calling and it was powerful the spirit touched his heart and it
brought back his feelings and understanding from growing up (his family
is Jehovah's witness but he isn't) and that set the lesson off to a
sweet start as we then taught the restoration and he will probably be
one of our most solid investigators.
Wednesday we saw
Marisol she went "less active" after she had her baby but she still has
lots of simple questions and we are trying to help her find answers. We
went to our next appointment and that fell through but we did some fun
service at the people city mission we started re organizing all of their
food stuffs because it had just been put there it wasn't neat at all. We had dinner with our Bishop and then did splits (super cool to do) I
went with the Bishop and we saw Wilfredo and that was good we helped him
with a few concerns and he tried to Bible bash but Bishop kept him in
his place and it was actually a fun lesson because we kept it simple ish
and somewhat on point but it went well
Thursday we had
exchanges in Crete and I got to see the Behrens and that was good we
walked around all day and sadly no success in teaching but it was a
decent day
Friday we saw our member who has quit
smoking the good thing is he doesn't go out much and so he is still
smoke free since he hasn't bought any cigarettes we are so happy for him
and we watched the movies How rare a possession with him and he is
starting to understand how important the Book of Mormon is. We also saw
the Quirinos in their new place again and they are doing well however
brother Quirino let us know he didn't feel ready to teach Sunday school
yet so we are going to work with him a little bit more.
Saturday it did not go according to plan except for one lesson which we
got with a guy named Miguel who doesn't really know how to read so we
are going to have to work with him and the singing the hymn helped so
we will see where that goes.
Sunday was sweet we got
a new investigator! he came from a referral her his name is Norberto or
Norbert in English and again the singing the hymn helped a ton we are
going to see him on Wednesday. Oh and I was also asked to teach High
priests! So that was funny trying to teach a lesson where they not only
learned something but learned how to apply it. I was flabbergasted at
how off topic a conference talk on faith could get but that was okay. I
also taught Sunday school so I have been teaching a lot and I hope it is
good or at least getting better but we will see.
That is my week I hope you all enjoyed my rambling and ranting
Love Elder Logan J. Draper
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