Monday, February 2,
2015
So there was no
baptism this week, unfortunately. She wasn’t quite ready. She just felt
overwhelmed and that things are moving too fast. Its probably because we
started teaching her the big lessons and then she went out of town and came
back and had to jump into the smaller and more lifestyle changing lessons, like
commandments. Plus, the language barrier probably doesn’t help. She has decent
English, but her husband doesn’t speak her native Spanish. But, we talked to
her about it last week for a few mins. She actually could’ve been baptized we
think if we had more time to speak with her. We told her its normal to have
doubts and be overwhelmed. So we've been trying to reassure her and tonight
we'll meet with her and hopefully get a date set for this Saturday. Feb 7. We
told her to pray about it. She can do it.
So we actually lost
contact with Johnny all week this week. It was sad. We knocked every day since
he lives in our complex and even when he was home, he wouldn’t answer. We found
out today that he has the sky falling on him. He’s gettin kicked out of his
apartment, he isn’t gettin paid at work, he has no money. So, that’s why he
hasn’t been able to meet with us, makes sense. So when I texted him this
morning, I found all that out and tried to comfort him. Told him that the Lord
will test those that he loves because he knows they will show faith and become
stronger for upcoming trials. He said he feels a little better. He quit smoking
cold turkey, yeah, it helped that he was so busy with work and trying to find a
new place to live too. Brian, same kind of thing. His life is too crazy right
now and we weren’t able to see him this week either.
But, this week was slow and things were rough. Weren’t
able to meet with investigators, baptism got postponed and even met some anti
people on the streets that hurt my feelings and brought me down. I know it
shouldn’t have, but i guess it all kind of hit me, after those mean people,
that the week was a bummer. But we didn’t give up. We worked as hard as we
could. We found some great people riding around and we might have new
investigators this week. But, it would be nice to regroup with the ones we
currently have. Eva will probably be baptized this weekend. I’ll know by
tonight since were seeing her. I’ll let you know next week! It could be a great report! Second baptism
for me! But I’m doing good. I’m happy
now. Sunday is always a nice fall back. plus today is P day and we might go hit
the golf range. We borrowed clubs for our ward mission leader. Then we got a
zone activity
We had a great night
last night at a fantastic family’s place for dinner. They love the missionaries
so much. And, we got to do shut ins for older people who couldn’t leave the
house. So that was a good Sunday to end
the week. This week will rock since its my companions last week. Plus the investigators will be ready to meet
with us since we gave them time to figure stuff out and we'll get goin again.
So the first picture
I sent is of a kid that we work with at a day care center. The mission expects
us to do 10 hours of service a week now and we found this place where we can
help kids with school work, play games, sports, read and its a perfect way to
fill that. So they accepted us and we've already worked there 3 times! We
didn’t get our 10 hours in but were working on gettin into the community
library because they said they need volunteers. The second picture I sent is of
my crazy watch situation. So the one on the left is the one that i got right
before i left. I lost it my first week in this area after basketball! I tried
to find it in lost and found and asking around and never could. Finally, last
week some elders found it in the cleaning closet here at church! Kinda weird, I
didn’t put it there. But since I lost the watch, I decided to buy a clone to
replace him and now I have two. Im gonna wear Mark 1 as long as i can. I told
myself as i was coming out that I would have it my whole mission. Then, if it
gets lost or broken, I’ll still have somewhat of that goal with Mark 2.
