Well you are going to be the only one to get an email this week because ALOT has happened and we are running late and have dinner in like 45 min and it’s about a 20 min drive plus we have to drop off some other missionaries at their apartment so I don’t have much time.
Well this week was kind of really crazy. We had exchanges with the AP's Tuesday and Elder M (my zone leader from V, now the AP) came to our ward with me. We worked really hard to find people to teach but didn’t have a ton of success. We were looking through some former investigators though and saw 2 people who had been being taught who had NO reason for being dropped and the last things they said were that they were loving the lessons so I looked at the fellowshipper they had and it was a girl in our ward on both of them so I called her. I asked about them and she said "yeah after this other missionary left the next missionaries never really kept teaching them... do you have an record of these other 3 of my friends?" well we didn’t so we set up a time that we could go over and talk to her. Turns out she has 5 friends that are still hopefully interested that she is inviting to either institute this week or to sacrament next week. Hopefully we see some pretty cool things from that. Other than that we contacted a little bit and talked to a couple people who seem a little interested. The best part of our day had to do with the return appointment we had with R. The first guy that let Elder H and I in last week. I took Elder M one of the missionaries that we are handing him over to and Elder M and M’s comp Elder A went tracting. Elder M and I had a REALLY great lesson. We read from 3 Nephi 11 about the Savior coming. Then we asked if he had prayed about the Book of Mormon after he read it and he said that he hadn’t so we went to the intro of the Book of Mormon and talked about how to know if it’s true we need to pray. Then we asked him to right this minute pray to know if the Book of Mormon was true and after we would sit for a few seconds so we would make sure not to miss it. After he prayed we sat and the Spirit was really strong. I asked him how he felt and he said... "I feel okay" so I told him how I felt about how I felt peaceful and happy and he told us "Yeah I feel the same... I felt this way last time you guys came too.... I have a confession to make. 99.9% of the people who knock on my door I will send them away. But there was something about you guys... I knew you were here for a reason." After he said that I just bore my testimony and said "R we are here for a reason. We cover all of S and R. We could have gone to ANY street in the city and we came here because our Savior led us here because he loves you so much that he wants you to know about the restored Gospel and how it can bless your life. You let us in because you felt the Holy Ghost and those same feelings are telling you right now that the Book of Mormon is true and that what we have taught is true." I said more things but I don’t really remember what they were. It was very powerful though. After when we were about to go I told him that this would be the last time I would be there but that Elder M would be the one teaching him. After I told him that he got up from his seat and came over and I got up to shake his hand but he gave me a big hug. It was really neat and I hope so much that he can keep progressing because he is sooo ready for the Gospel. It was a really neat lesson.
Wednesday we had exchanges with one of the district leaders and I went to their area with the district leader’s greenie. We ended up tracting almost all day and we got 22 contacts and had pretty much no success. Finally it was time for an appointment they got while tracting the other day and it was 2 teenage girls and their little brother. (Their mom wasn’t interested) but we taught them about the Book of Mormon and how it can help them. Not as powerful a lesson as R’s but they still seem really interested and wanted Elder T and Elder M to keep coming every Wednesday. I also invited them to be baptized and they said YES!! There are a couple things they will need to overcome but they will work out. before we left they even asked if they could invited a friend for next week and the mom said she liked what we were doing and next week she would make sure her other 2 sons would be there to listen too. It was pretty awesome.
Thursday we had exchanges with the Spanish elders! I stayed in our ward and had Elder M come to our area. He has been out about 22 months. We had an AWEFUL day. At the end of our day Elder M even said that it was one of the hardest days he has had on his mission. All our appointments fell through and when we went tracting people not only just said no but were flat out jerks to us. Elder M asked one old lady how she was doing and she said "none of your business" and shut the door. The guy at the next house came out and pointed at his gate and said "never come through that gate again" people were just frustrating me really bad. It was just a super bad day.
Friday not much happened but I was back with Elder H again.
Saturday we had exchanges AGAIN. This time I was in Elder M’s area on bike and we went and shared an MRR lesson with a past bishop that went really well and Elder M is going to start using it with more members to get them to do missionary work. Then we went tracting for 2 hours and talked to some really awesome people 3 of which said if we were in the area we could come by and share our message.
Sunday was Fast Sunday and was a pretty good time at church the best part of our day was from teaching a new investigator we got last Monday. We taught him at his brother’s house who is a member and taught the intro to the Book of Mormon and asked if he found out it was true if he would be baptized and he said yes! That will be the first baptism in this ward in nearly a year. Pretty crazy but hopefully it will get the work going quicker.
Today the reason we are behind is because we went on a hike up in Lake Arrowhead. We got lots of sweet pictures that I’ll get to you guys soon. Well we gotta go! I love you all tons!! Have a great week!!
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