I'm pretty tired right now, it's been a hard days night! Let me
just say, 8 days a week is not enough to do missionary work! The past
couple of days have been rough, but it's getting better all the time.
That sums up the Beatles portion of this email. No solid appointments today, so we will mainly be finding
people. We do a LOT of that. I don't remember if i already mentioned
this, but right before I came here, there were a bunch of baptisms, so
our teaching pool is realllly small. So our main activity is looking
for investigators. To make matters worse, one of our investigators who has been investigating for a long time now, and we thought was
ready to be baptized, dropped us 2 days ago. It's really sad because
she has a testimony of the Restoration, she loves church, but she just
doesn't want to "commit" to anything, like coming to church, or giving
up smoking/drinking (she has made HUGE progress in giving those up, she
was practically there, but she just gave up) I'm really sad about
that. Willis gave me a mini pep talk afterwards, and basically
explained that we get dropped all the time, so we have to get used to
it, but it's all part of God's plan. We don't know who has prepared and
who isn't prepared yet, so we just do everything we can on our part,
and don't let it get to us when we find our someone wasn't prepared.
That didn't make much sense probably. In my defense, his wording made
even less sense. Nevertheless, it was what I needed to hear I think.
J and S broke up (for realsies this time)
and since then S has been dropping us. she hasn't made it
official, but she screens our calls and has stopped talking to us, so I
think we're pretty much dropped.
So.... yeah, some disappointments this week. that's
the only way I can describe it I guess. those of you who have served
missions, if you can remember your first times being dropped by people
you thought were really going to get baptized, you know what I'm talking
about.
Last disappointment, N (the woman we found with the
quad) went on a church tour with us, and she is so legit (we were on
the church tour, and we were talking about the painting of John the
Baptist baptizing Jesus, and we were starting to talk about authority,
and why Jesus could only be baptized by John the Baptist, and not some
random guy, and out of nowhere she was like "didn't John the baptist
hold the levitcal priesthood?" haha... willis said afterwards he'd never
had an investigator know that before) and the church tour went really
well for the most part, but at our next lesson, she told us some more
stuff, and I really doubt she will get baptized. She could, of course,
God knows whether or not she's prepared, not me, but her heart isn't
really sincere in wanting to know the truth about it, she is just
interested in the information part of what we believe. which is cool
and stuff, but the promise in Moroni 10 says we need to ask with a
sincere heart, and she isn't going to do that, I don't think. Hope I'm
wrong though!
No more disappointments.
While we
were on the Church Tour (CT) Elder K got a referral from some other
missionaries, and we found this African family (not african american,
straight up African. he moved here like 3 years ago) and I haven't met
with them yet, but Elders K and H say they're really tight. They are
a Part Member Family (PMF) and we love PMF's.
There is so much more that happenened this week, as
always, but I am getting a headache from trying to remember it. So I
will close this email.
I'm pretty sure I wrote
99% about the lowlights of the week, but for the record, there were also
highlights! There are miracles every day in the mission field, maybe
next week I'll write about only miracles! oh, speaking of which, we
healed a woman with a priesthood blessing, it was really cool! She had
such strong faith in Priesthood blessings because of an experience
earlier in her life. So yeah, maybe next week will be all miracles!
Love you all, I'm happy out here, the work wasn't as fruitful as we
would have hoped this week, but good stuff happens all the time, and I'm
hopeful for this next week! Write me! Hey, speaking of writing me,
Justin, you haven't written me once! I have absolutely no one with whom
I can talk about working out and stuff.
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