Family and friends,
Yet another amazing week, life in the MBM is the best kind of life.
So many things made this a great week. We were a lot busier with better
things. Lots of fun activities and of course, Mother's Day!
Monday night we played ultimate frisbee again for FHE and Elder Ison
and I got to know some more non-member cousins of our ward mission
leader! Ultimate frisbee is one of the best games out there for sure.
Tuesday we had one of the most awkward lessons of my life. The guy
was really quiet and doesn't really respond or participate too much, but
he's a good guy. I was super worried the whole lesson that I was going
to say something stupid and eventually I did. At the peak of the lesson I
was bearing my testimony on the Book of Mormon and said, "because of
the Book of Mormon, I know that Joseph Smith is our Savior." There was
an awkward pause and I corrected myself very quickly. I was thoroughly
embarrassed. We also met another super smart guy. We meet lots of smart
people that are going to school here that are 'scientific' and therefore
don't believe in God. But this one was really nice and said that he'd
love to believe in God, just doesn't feel he can yet. So he's going to
be reading and praying to find out if God exists!
Wednesday through Sunday we tried to work ourselves into the ground.
Despite our best efforts we weren't able to get any appointments set up
those days. The only appointments we had were dinner appointments for
Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. So we were just grinding all day long
tracting or street contacting or trying old referrals. We found 3 new
investigators from street contacting and 2 from contacting formers! We
were definitely seeing some good success from working hard and putting
in the effort. It was nice that there wasn't a whole bunch of
administrative stuff didn't get in our way.
Thursday night and all day Friday we went on exchanges with the 1st
Ward elders and had a blast. I was with Elder Pett and Elder Ison went
with Elder Baum. Elder Pett is also from my transfer group so it was a
blast being with him. I've never actually served with him before. We
worked hard and met a lot of cool people.
Saturday night we got a hold of Abdula, a potential investigator we
met a while ago. We followed a prompting to go by his place and as we
showed up he was just getting home and invited us in as well! He's from
Saudi Arabia. We sat down with us and talked a lot about both of our
religions. It was cool because I don't really know anything about Islam
so it was an awesome experience. I really felt the spirit with him. It
was really cool because he kept telling us that he believes what he
believes but says that if he finds more truth he'll believe it. So he's
also reading and praying now! We taught him how we pray and he showed us
how he prays. I love seeing other people pray because I still feel the
spirit, God appreciates anyway we reach out to him. He is also going to
be coming to church, he says he loves going to Christian churches and
has never been to ours before!
Well that's about it for now, obviously I got to Skype home yesterday and it was great. My family is indeed the best.
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