Monday, March 30,
2015
So, we had a slower
week, not nearly as exciting and able to do as much as the last two. We thought
we were the only ones who struggled, but turns out the sister missionaries in
the ward struggled too, and the whole district struggled as well. Then I read
the report from President and in fact the whole mission had a rough week. So,
that was interesting and, in a way, made me feel better. But, one thing I
forgot to mention, people here have been swimming in the pools for two weeks now.
So summer has begun here. It’s quite weird. But things with the
investigators... The way i see it is that we had a rough week and not much
worked out, 3but the few things that did happen were quite awesome and gave us
hope.
The crazy sister
family did accept to be baptized. We had a sweet lesson with them this week. We
were worried about it because we had to teach outside since we didn’t have
another man around the house. One of the mission rules, have to have 16 year
old or older guys around to enter rooms with females. We planned to teach about
temples and family history and even word of wisdom. We were just worried they
wouldn’t understand or the word of wisdom wouldn’t be received well. But, we
went out and taught by the apartment pool and just went for it. We just told
ourselves the odds are against us, things aren’t ideal but it actually went
really well. I felt like Christ teaching in Jerusalem and also on the shore of
Galilee because they gathered around us and also had a few friends come over and
we had a great lesson with them outside. They understood the need for temples
and they accepted to live the word of wisdom! The Spirit really helped us teach
these things to their understanding. The mom, Beverly, has a problem with
smoking cigarettes, but we just promised her that the atonement and her
strength will be enough to stop. She is very committed to it.
So we plan to see Marjorie tonight. The FHE is tonight and
we also invited a less active brother to come as well since he doesn’t have any
family to do it with. We weren’t able to see Marjorie or Sara this week. We
called and called and eft messages and we’re just waiting to hear back. That’s
the status with a lot of investigators. But, we also got another baptismal date
with an investigator named Julie. She’s a young single mom probably around 20
or so. We have seen her twice now and she is solid. Very willing to read, pray
and come to church. Unfortunately no investigators came to church. They had
intention to, but things came up I guess. I just want to share testimony that
sometimes the Lord humbles us and shows us that we need to still be happy and
have tons of faith in him even if nothing is working out. He wants us to have
the same drive as when things are great in the mission even if nothing is
working out. And, I know that challenges are only temporary and that they come
to help us be stronger and reminded that God is the one who plans everything
out. Maybe that’s why this week was so rough, because the past two weeks were
really good the Lord wants to show us that He is the one who made those things
happen and not let the success get to our head.
We also had
interviews with President this week. Elder Christensen was nervous for them. It
was my first time too. He makes you teach him before the interview and then he
gives feedback. Turns out Elder Christensen didn’t do so well. Probably because
of nervousness. But he learned a lot from President right after and then the
next day we studied what he wasn’t able to explain and he knows it well now. My
interview went really well. I taught about repentance and President said I did
a great job. But it was an interesting week. There were small little miracles
and things to be excited about a midst lots of things to be sad and worried
about. But we’re A Okay and glad that it wasn’t completely awful and we’re
ready to begin a new week!
Love ya,
Elder Janz
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