So I guess you could say this week was pretty
fantastic. Similar to most other weeks on a mission. Guess how many new
investigators we found? The most we've ever found in a week before is 4 I
believe. This week? 13. Yippee! 10 of them were found using the prayer
approach. I think I told y'all about that.
Monday- M. and her grandson E. We invited them
to be baptized and they said yes but we haven't been able to meet with them
again this week.
Tuesday- We brought the Bishop to our
appointment with our excommunicated investigator which I think helped a lot
because the Bishop was really nice to him and talked about how wonderful
repentance is.
We had a lesson with the D. family (active
husband who is very old and a spiritual giant and his less active wife). R.,
the wife, works on Sundays and we brought Sis B., an awesome member. Sis B. basically shut
her down like a boss. Here's how the conversation went
Sis D: I don't think I can go to church
anymore girls. I'm too old to go to church and then work all day. I'm sure Sis
B. understands how that feels *polite laughter*
Sis B: *no laughter* No. I don't. I go to
church on Sundays and work on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
oh man. It was pretty funny. Calling people to
repentance turns out to be a lot harder than I imagined. I really want everyone
to like us and know that we love them but no one likes to be told they are
breaking the commandments. S Har. and I have been working on being bolder. In
our lesson with the D. family it was getting near the end and Sis D. was not
really having it (She usually loves us but that's when we teach nice
fluffy stuff. We aren't there to teach nice fluffy stuff, we are there to
invite others to Christ through faith and repentance.) I prayed really hard
that I would know what the Savior wanted me to say because I had no idea. So I
opened my mouth and promised blessings as a representative of Jesus Christ.
Afterwards Bro D. said "The Lord has truly loosened your tongue."
That was a cool answer to prayer :)
Wednesday- we finally got one of our less
actives to tell us she doesn't want to come to church because she feels guilty
about smoking. I've been teaching her for about 3 months and never even had a
clue that she smoked. She still didn't come to church but she said the Saturday
before she even went and bought a skirt so she's thinking about it!!
We did the prayer approach with M. and while
doing so this dog runs up to us and obviously I'm excited because that's a
super easy way to start talking to whoever the owner is but when I look up I
see K...... Oh no.... S Har. knows about him but she didn't know what he looked
like so she starts talking and asking if we can pray with him. He says no and
when he was out of ear shot I whisper "Bible basher!!!" ON top of
that we had M. with us. He goes on to tell us that if he prayed with us that
would be like praying with a Muslim. "And many other things did he say
unto us that I can not write at this time." (<---Haha funny scripture
reference.) While walking away M. said "he's golden."
Later in the week, during companion study I
said
"So when I read this scripture I was
thinking about K.--"
S Har.- "Nooooo! In my prayer this
morning I said, God if we need to go back and talk to K. have S Knowlton say
his name during studies."
hahahahaha so- we're going back and we are
going to boldly bare our testimonies that Joseph Smith is in fact a prophet.
Thursday- rough day. All our appointments
before dinner fell through. But hey, that's because God needed us to be somewhere
else so I'm not complaining!
Friday- we told SW that if she didn't start
reading and coming to church we couldn't keep coming by. (nicely and with the
spirit of course ;) )
We had dinner with T., R., D., and S. They're
our investigators if you don't remember. It is really painful to teach them
because I care about them so much and want it so badly for them and R. will not
pray about the BOM. So we are teaching them tonight and hopefully things go
well. We will be inviting him to be baptized for the 3rd time haha.
Saturday- 6 new investigators!
We found a family through the prayer approach.
It's a mom, C. and her 3 kids, S., D., and T. We invited them to be baptized
October 5th and they all said yes but we aren't counting them as on date yet
because I don't think they understand well enough...
S Har. and I have really been trying to work
on teaching clearly and simply. I feel a lot of times the people we teach don't
fully understand the Restoration and that is something that everyone deserves
to understand because it is amazing!!!!!
We also taught briefly about the BOM to a
single mom named V. who we said a prayer for last week. She said she has been
looking for a church and is willing to read. She mentioned a Mormon friend she
had in High School who brought her to church a couple times. That friend has no
idea how much she helped both us and V.!
We were 10 minutes late to ward correlation
and Bro L. gave us a nice big talking to. That was not fun. Missionaries must
be punctual! Lesson learned!
We had a good time in companion study. We
decided to scripture chase to every scripture that we read together. S Har.
beat me most of the time which was kind of upsetting.
Sunday- We sang in church. We told EVERYONE to
come support us and no less actives or investigators came... That was the whole
reason we sang haha. We sang I need thee every hour with the Webster Lake
elders who are both really great singers.
Did I tell you about that wedding? I can't
remember but anyways we taught them and picked them up as investigators. The
husband is pretty interested.
Remember that family we helped move one night?
We went and taught them. M. is REALLY interested. She kept saying how she has
been thoroughly studying the Bible for 22 years and just feels like there is
something missing. When we started talking about Joseph Smith she said
"wait let me get something" and I was afraid it was going to be anti
stuff but she came back with a pen and paper and started franticly taking notes
on everything we said. When we gave her the BOM and asked her to read 3 Nephi
11 she said "That's what I just opened to!! I'm covered in goosebumps just
holding this!"
Every Sunday Elder Mc. does "Malley
district radio call-in" and he gives a challenge and the first
companionship to call in with the answer and their weekly numbers gets a candy
bar. 2/3 week that we won ;)
I forgot to mention some things last week and
I have zero time.
1. I got a ticket for going 11 over last
Monday............. First ticket ever :( Sorry Mom and dad! I don't know how to
pay it so I'm using that emergency cash you gave. You can take it out of my
bank account or something)
2. I gave another training in District
Meeting. I don't know how after being out for 3 months I've managed to train 3
times.... I've had a new DL every transfer. Maybe I should let the new ones
know that I already trained....
3. A general authority is coming to our
mission on Tuesday and I was asked to sing!! I'll let you know how that goes :)
Love you all!! Congrats Aaron and Amy! you are
the best!
p.s. shoutout to Aly and Izzie for that
incredible package. S Har. and I LOVEEE the CDs I would tell you more specifics
but I ran out of time. I will next week :)
p.p.s. S Har. and I have so much fun. We are
really great friends and I will be really sad to not be her companion in 3
weeks :(
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