Monday, March 23,
2015
Tomorrow is a big day. 6 months a missionary.
Maybe I’ll take the day off ;) Had a very fun week! Tons of work being done
here. We got like 6 new investigators now! Found a family! We actually found
them just threw saying hi as we walked through the apartment complex. Its a mom
and two daughters in their twenties. They are just silly heads. The mom and one
daughter are very unexpected and eccentric. The other sister is very calm and
helps us keep things on track. They are very very talkative and got that
southern attitude. They’re quite funny. We taught them two lessons and are
loving them. They tried to come to church but just couldn’t find it. I plan to
draw a simple map, it’s worked before. They accepted to be baptized and we’re going
to extend a date of April 18 tomorrow.
The other new investigators we have are from referrals and we got an
investigator from knocking on a less actives door. We found out the guy who
answered wasn’t who we were looking for, he had moved. But we got to explain
who we are and what we do and even taught about prophets for a second at the
door and he let us come back! So we came back a couple days later and had a
great first lesson with him.
So the investigators
are pretty good. Margerie came to church for the first time in ages. She’s
tough though because she only can meet with us once a week and we still need to
teach a few lessons. But we found a way around it. Some members she likes are
having us all over for FHE and we can all teach her the next lesson she needs
then. We’re going to extend a new date to her this Thursday. Hopefully she’ll
be baptized in a couple weeks.
Sara was out of touch
and they actually cancelled two appointments this week :/ So it seems
like whenever we get our best investigators, they have hiccups and then we find
other investigators to make up for that. But, we plan to see her tonight and we
will go over temples again and move on. She can’t make April 4th either
since she hasn’t come to church. You have to come to church 2 times before
baptism.
Seeing David tomorrow
and Tami on Wednesday. David, when we invited him, just told us that he already
had been baptized as a baby. We explained, as nice as we could, that he needed
agency and the priesthood to perform that baptism. He actually understood right
then, but called the day after and was complaining about it, so it was tough.
But he’s still willing to meet with us, so he was a little offended but
apparently not enough to stop seeing us.
The Sutters are doing
awesome. We went over there on Friday. They just got back from vacation since
its spring break so they didn’t have time for a lesson. So we just said hi and
asked how things were and set up to go see them this upcoming Friday.
Elder Christensen
actually taught the basketball guys the lesson this week. He said it was scary
at first but we decided if you can teach a bunch of ballers from all sorts of
backgrounds, you can teach anyone. It built his confidence a ton.
Love you,
Elder Janz
