This past week was good. Our temporary
investigator -Bill- from Arizona went back over there yesterday, so
that was pretty sad, but Bill is a super solid guy, so I have no doubt
that he will continue to progress really well with the missionaries in
his home town. He's pretty much ready to get baptized. We went over the
baptismal questions with him for out last lesson, and apart from having
some word of wisdom issues, he could get baptized this Saturday. I'm pretty sad that we don't get to work with him anymore.
But someone who I'm excited to work with still is Pamela. She came
to an 'I'm a Mormon' devotional, so that was really cool. She was more
willing to go to that over church because we said that there's about 250
at church on average, and that's about 5 times what she's accustomed
to, so when we told her that this devotional should just have about 50
(At least that's about how many were there last time) she decided to
come to that. Turns out, there were more like 150 people there instead.
It worked out though. Unfortunately she didn't really connect with any
of the speakers, which is weird because there were some sweet talks.
(Quick side note. Chris, a recent baptism of the Sister's gave one of
the talks there, and he did such a boss job. He didn't have ANY notes
except for like a sticky note that he pulled out of his pocket one time
to check where a scripture was. Seriously, he did better than most life
long members do.) But after, once he was free, we introduced President
Gerber to Pamela, and they started talking, and talking, and then we
left, and they kept talking for like 30 minutes after! It was awesome,
because President is pretty much brilliant with the gospel as well as
mechanical stuff, so he did an amazing job answering her questions and
relating it to hydraulics and transmissions (Which is what she designs
for work) so it was perfect.
We went on an exchange with the district leader. I stayed with the DL,
and Elder Williams went to his area with his companion. It was a lot of
fun. We brought a couple of Priests out with us this week to do some
missionary work. We brought one of them tracting, and it was funny
because we thought it went really well, but the Priest though it was
really hard, and I think it kind of freaked him out. He'll get used to
it. :) The other Priest, we just took to an appointment with Bill (The
investigator that's no longer our investigator) and taught a good
lesson, so he thinks missionary work is a piece of cake :)
Sunday morning was pretty exciting; I lost my companion for about 30 minutes :) So here's the story: Sunday
morning, we were on our way out of the apartment when we got a text
from Amber. So I stop and reply to her, and sometime during that, my
companion rides off, and when I look up, he's gone. I figured he just
went around the corner, but he wasn't there either. So I head out of the
apartment complex, and I still don't see him. (Turns out that he was
down the street like a few hundred yards, but I didn't see him) So I
start riding to the persons house that we were going to stop by, and he
wasn't there either.We eventually find each other after Elder Williams
borrowed someones phone and calls me. We ended up like 3 miles away from
each other. It was kind of stressful. But it all worked out :)
So in 2 days I hit my 18 month mark.... So yeah...
Thanks for reading!
~Elder Roderer
Elder Roderer would love to hear from you!!
Elder Patrik Roderer
42215 Carriage Cove Cir.
Bldg. 20 #203
Canton, MI 48187
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