Mom! I’m glad you liked my card! I found it and thought it just said it perfectly :) thank you for the advice on how to be more motivated. I think a lot of it is just that sometimes it feels like I’m still going to be out here forever longer and its frustrating especially when you get in a rut. But we had an extremely good week this week! The beginning of the week was just pretty average. We worked a lot on making sure we go tracting every day for at least an hour. Because for the past few transfers we just haven’t knocked on a whole lot of doors. I really don’t mind tracting all that much especially with a companion that I actually enjoy being with. We get along really well and have pretty similar personalities. He is by far my favorite companion. I don’t know how he feels about me but I like being with him haha. He is an extremely good missionary too. He doesn’t seem like a greenie one bit and I can rely on him to help me teach just like I should have been able to do with a lot of my past companions. So anyways things are going really good. Wednesday we had exchanges and I was in my area with Elder R (Elder U’s companion) and we went out to a less active family we usually visit and we officially started teaching the husband the lessons. It went pretty well and we now have him as a new investigator. The rest of the week we spent trying to catch people home and visit less actives and find new people to teach. We had a few people that seemed pretty promising but turned out not to be. We handed out I think 5 Book of Mormons and had 40 contacts this week. That is more than I’ve had my entire time in B! On Saturday we were having kind of a slow day where everything was just falling through. Finally we went and stopped by a less active I had never met and we had a really good visit with her. Her husband is not a member or any of her little kids. But she told us that she wants to start doing family home evening so we offered to come over and help her get it started. We are going over Tuesday night and her husband is going to be there and all her kids! It was pretty awesome. Sunday was an awesome awesome day and we got extremely blessed! We had a random guy come to church! He said he hadn’t been here for just over 2 years because he got sick but that he wanted to start learning again. We sat with I’m through all of church and then had a meeting with him after church. He opened up to us a ton and told us the things he is looking for such as fellowshippers who won’t do him wrong and something to "fill his emptiness" and help him to be more happy. We (Elder N, Sister E, and I) all bore our testimonies that this church is what will help him to do all that. We are now going to start teaching him! After church we went out to a member I told you about how we were going to start teaching their daughter. Well we started and it went pretty well and we set a baptism date for June 23! We also had a less active family back at church that we have been working with and they just seemed so happy to be there! It was really really great! It was an awesome week and our district did super good with the work! It was the highest I’ve seen our numbers in a long time! I think a lot of it is that we go out and tract and try our best to find people so we are being blessed! Sister J from back in C told me one time when I was complaining about tracting she said "my mission president told me that if we were to tract an hour a day the Lord would bless us." I think that it really is true. But I still want to have our members more involved and we are definitely working on that still. Well that was pretty much all for our week! It was a really good one! I love you tons and hope you have an awesome week!
To Brian: so at first I was going to say that because you’re in the Elders Quorum you’re going to be involved with the missionaries a bunch but then I remembered that you are in Utah and you probably hardly ever see missionaries unlike here in B where there are 4 missionaries in one ward hahaha I’m excited for my nephew! He better be born by next Monday! So I totally missed the eclipse! I was pretty bummed. Last night we had our upstairs neighbors (these black people who we are pretty sure are drug dealers) having a party. They were being way annoyingly loud. They were drunk by the time we got home at 8. So that was definitely just soooo great. The lady that manages our apartments lives next door and this morning she was going off about how she is fed up with them sooooo they might be getting kicked out soon and we could get new neighbors who don’t party all night and sell drugs! hahaha Missions are definitely interesting. Always gotta love the houses you walk up to and can smell the weed just rolling out their door. Oh! We had such a funny door contact! We knock on this door and a girl answers and I immediately realized she was blazed. So we do our message anyways and she says no. And then this way tall big guy comes up behind her and says. "Would you like to discuss this over a bunt of marijuana?" I just started busting up laughing and said "no that’s okay but thanks for asking!" haha it was so random and unexpected! Anyways hope you have a splendid week! I love you tons! Hope the baby comes soon!
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