This week has gone by really quickly. We've been getting a lot more
appointments set up and things to do. This week we will be really busy! It's
really exciting. It's been super tough to get to this point, but I'm glad that
we got here! The ward has given us a few names of less active families to work
with. I love working with less active members. I think that's my favorite thing
about serving a mission. I had a really neat experience as I was calling a
family in a different ward to get some information on their son who lives in our
ward. I guess that they have a couple of kids in our ward that are less active.
As I was thanking her for the information, she said, "no thank you for helping
us bring our children back to Christ." It was humbling for sure. Every once in a
while I get those wake up calls. Keeps me focused. I like it :) We have plans to
contact one of the families this week with our assistant ward mission leader.
I'll let you know how it goes.
In addition to working with less active members, we have made a lot of
progress with an investigator named Tara. She really loved the last
missionaries, so it's been tough for her to adjust. But we've been working on
her! She came to a baptism on Saturday, and now we will be working on setting a
date for her own baptism. She also had a pretty crumby day on Thursday or
something like that. So we brought her jello ( she really loves it. I told her
she should move to Utah). Yep...I used my baking skills. They worked. She likes
us now :) Well, it wasn't just the jello, but still.
Let's see....what else happened....we've been trying to contact all of the
former investigators. Especially those who stopped investigating because they
were busy. And they are truthfully busy. But we got in contact with one more of
them. He's the last one that we will try, and he's still interested. So that's
pretty great! We also ate at a family from Guatemala's house. It was super good.
They are a funny family. I was laughing the entire time. Picture a Hispanic Cox
family. That's basically them. It was like walking into a real life Nacho!
We also got to serve at a homeless shelter with the ward this week. It was
the same place we were at last week, but we didn't different stuff. It was
really good. We got to know some more of the ward. And it's a really great place
to serve. I guess one of the ward members overheard some of the volunteers
talking about Elder Burnett and I. I guess they like us. Woo! Probably cause
we're clueless. It was basically like the first day of school. I was pretty
confused. But apparently good things happen when I'm confused.
English class this week was really neat. We had 3 new students show up! One
of them didn't speak a lick of English. It was out of control! I wasn't teaching
him though. He was an older Chinese gentleman. I was teaching a man from Korea,
a few ladies from India, and one lady from Sri Lanka. Yeah...it's really diverse
here. Oh yeah, and there was a member of our ward there to. He's Filipino. If
you want names here they are: jimbau, bhupinder, kulwinder, komodu, and Bro
Aquino. Now you know why names are tough for me, ha ha. It was a super neat
class.
Sunday was good. Tara was at church. So was James. He's the recent convert
we've been meeting with. There's really some great members in the ward. Pretty
solid week. This week should be good too. Have a great week. Love ya!
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