April 18, 2016
Dear Family and Friends
This has been a fun
week, not necessarily 100% productive but it was still good and I am
excited to share some of the highlights with you. so to start out with
last Monday we saw the Mahan family, from one of the English wards and
they had us and the sisters and the other Elders over for dinner. Then
we went over to our relief society president's house and visited with
her for a FHE and then ended up teaching her son, He is your average
teenager wanting immediate gratification but he is a good kid.
Tuesday we tried to see some people but that didn't work out so at
about 1:00 we headed to Sutton a small town in the middle of no where it
was about an Hour drive to that town. we then tried to see some people
and after a while we wandered into the library to see if they had a town
address book, they have that in Lincoln but not there apparently but
we talked to the Librarian a super sweet lady she said she was Christian
but she didn't believe the bible stories to be true or that Jesus
Christ was the Son of God and she had had LDS friends while she lived in
South Dakota so ya we gave her a copy of the Book of Mormon and invited
her to read it and hopefully she did and we will catch her when we go
back to the town. Later we had a lesson with a part member family in the
town and it was good. We then hopped back onto the Highway and drove
back to Grand Island or GI once in GI we had dinner and then saw our
awesome part member family we generally see every Tuesday and we
reviewed the restoration and recommitted them to read as a family
Everyday from the book of Mormon so that the Jesus can get a testimony
for himself.
Wednesday we taught this kid named
Santiago, basically we just keep knocking this door to catch someone
and then someone new answers every time last time it was Herminda this
time it was Santiago. So that was funny. Then we tried teaching people
and it was one of those days where nothing really works out. Well we
taught a lady named Mariana a less active who has had a lot of struggles
and we testified of Gods love and how she needs to forgive herself to
fully repent then right after that the sister missionaries texted one of
them would like a blessing and they would be willing to meet us
wherever they had to so we met them at the church and we gave the sister
a blessing and it was one of those things that she didn't want the ward
to know and the other Elders were out of town on exchanges so it fell
on us. It was a super cool and spiritual experience to participate in
that. That was the end of our day basically every thing else fell
through
Thursday we had a sweet district meeting
and I trained first on being ourselves and developing our own talents
and not competing with others. Then find when you teach and teach when you
find or however it is said in PMG. So ya it was great the sisters loved
my training and then we did some good role plays district meeting went a
little over but it was all worth it! We felt the spirit and what more
could you ask for. So we took lunch then tried to contact some referrals
we had in our planners and we met a guy walking on the street said
missionaries could contact him again and so we were like sweet send that
to the sisters and that will be of note later. Then we taught a less
active member who is just not coming to church and stuff but she is
super sweet and we then had a dinner with an English member in the other
ward, they used to live in Utah and so they have been here for about
the same amount of time as I have so that is cool.
Then we saw our part
member family again they are starting to progress and we taught the law
of chastity and it went over alright.
Friday
all of our plans got changed but it worked out we had interviews a
little later than planned but it was all good we got to see the sisters
and how the referral went and well they went back and one of the guys
either our referral or his friend called the sisters Hookers so I was
not happy when I heard that but God will deal with him in his own way in
his own time. Leaving all Justice to God is the best way to go. Well
we then had lunch and that was good because it held me over the rest of
the day. We had weekly planning then we went out and tried to teach
people
Saturday we tried so hard to find people
but nothing literally nothing worked out and we ended up with no lessons
but we did do some good contacting and got some new potential investigators and that was awesome! One guy was like thanks for the Jesus
time boys and it was funny because his so called "atheist" friend
actually asked for a Book of Mormon so that is exciting and no I didn't
give him the sisters number (despite it being their area) I learned my
lesson. Sunday we got two lessons in which was sweet. Possibly new
investigator and the Lagunas Family the Lagunas family is awesome
Hermana Lagunas has a sweet testimony she has just had to work a lot
since she got divorced from her husband who already had a wife in Mexico and didn't tell her till after the fact but she is doing well and they
are a cool family the kids are mostly active. We also had stake conference
and I had to translate one of the talks and that was difficult for me
because she was talking so fast and using a lot of story telling and idioms of English not to much but I was like slow it down. but that is my
week in a nut shell/
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