This
week was pretty good. I feel like I grew quite a bit during the week.
Like toward the beginning
of the week, I really wasn't feeling very
motivated and stuff, but as the week went on, I felt more and more
motivated and I also gained a greater resolve to finish my mission
strong. I think part of that came from a dream that I had. I had a dream
Tuesday or Wednesday
night that I finished my mission and went home (Like I was not a
missionary anymore, which I've never had a dream about before) but it
was really weird because it felt like I had just kind of coasted through
through the rest of my mission instead of finishing strong, and if was
not a good feeling! I felt full of regret, and I felt like I wasn't sure
if my sacrifice was acceptable to the Lord. It was a terrible feeling,
and it gave me the kick in the pants that I've been wanting. So we were
able to finish this week stronger than usual, and that felt really good.
I really hope that I can keep this attitude for the rest of my mission.
District
meeting went well. It was quite a bit easier to plan and prepare for
than last weeks, and I felt like my instruction went a lot better too.
It's kind of cool; the nature of the task hasn't changed, but my ability
to accomplish it well has. I think the Lord has been helping a lot with
it too.
The area is going pretty well. We
were finally able to get in contact with our investigator John (That I
hadn't met before just last week) so that was a miracle. He is still
solid, but he's just going through some tough times.
We found a
new investigator tracting. She is a 19 year old girl that was super
golden, but her dad is mega mean and hates us, so we're not allowed to
teach her anymore. It's super lame. But I'll tell you the story of how
we found her anyway :)
So we were tracting Friday
evening, and as we were walking up a driveway, this crazy rain storm
hit. Fortunately, the porch for that house was covered, so we stayed dry
when we knocked. So the 19 year old girl comes to the door, and we're
like "Hey, we're missionaries..." and she was like "Oh! Jesus! Tell me
all about it!" We were sort of taken aback that someone was so excited
to see us and hear our message, so we start talking to her about the
Restoration, and she's super interested, so we pull up a chair or her
porch (because she was the only one home) and teach her a full blown
Restoration lesson! She was super engaged the whole time, and asked a
bunch of awesome questions, and was all excited to learn more and come
to church and stuff!... But right as we were able to leave, her very
angry dad comes home, and asks what we're doing, and Tyler (The girl)
tell him that we're teaching her about Jesus. Then he asks us where
we're from, and she tells him that we're Latter-Day Saints. I guess that
was the wrong answer, because he yells at us to "Get off my stoop!" and
all sorts of stuff. He was a jerk. So we leave, and as we're walking
away, we hear him say to his daughter "Is this why you didn't answer
your phone?! A tree could have fallen on the house!!" I guess it was
pretty windy, but I don't see how not answering her phone might have
caused a tree to fall on the house. That's probably not what he meant,
but whatever. We were smart enough to get Tyler's number before then, so
we texted her last night to see if we could still meet with her, and
she said that we couldn't, because her dad was really creeped out, but
that she would love to come to church sometime. So it's pretty
depressing that we can't teach her anymore, but it is what it is. We
tried our best, and that's all we could do.
Here's another story from tracting. We were knocking on doors Saturday
evening, and we had just finished a street, and were walking back to
the Jeep, when the guy in a car calls us over and is like "For you, what
day is the Sabbath?" And we were like "Uhh, Sunday.." So he proceeds to tell us why the "True Sabbath" is on Sunday.
Turns out, he is a "Messianic Jew" (At least that's what he claimed)
which I've never heard of before, but his doctrine was pretty different. He
was saying that he still follows the "Old ways" so he doesn't eat pork
and stuff, but then he's trying to convince us that living a riotous
life that's full of sin is okay. The way he talked was super funny too.
It felt like I was talking to a drunk knight from the 1400's. He even
said himself that he was "Just a drunken fool sitting in a 1998 Missan
Naxima".... For sure one of the craziest people I've even met on my
mission :)
So we do service at a senior center
a couple of times a week (We just package food for a Meals on Wheels
program, and do stuff like that) and one of the ladies that works there
just loves the missionaries, because they have been coming by and
helping for like 14 years, so she'll just give us food from the center.
Like she has given us two racks of ribs, something like 10 lbs of
chicken, and this week, she ordered this box of 48 gluten free hot
pocket equivalents, and just gave it to me! She is a super nice lady!
Brian came to church on Sunday,
so that was cool. And a recently reactivated member brought her
non-member husband and brother too, so hopefully we'll be able to start
teaching them too!
Anyways, that's about it for this week :)
Thanks for reading!
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