Anyway, we haven't had much success this week. It's been a hard week. We were supposed to have a baptism on Saturday. We were meeting with Sirley, (I spelled it different last week) every day to get him ready for his baptism. He seemed like he was progressing soo well too! So this weekend was really disappointing. On Saturday, when the baptism was supposed to be, we spent the whole day trying to get it ready. We had to wait and fill up the font, and were trying to get everything together because we weren't really on the ball with that. We went to his house at about 5:30, because that is when he gets home from work, and we waited, and waited, and waited. It was really sad! He just didn't show up like he was supposed to. =( he lives at the house of a recent member, who is super excited about missionary work, so she was super sad too. Later we heard that he showed up at nine, still somewhat drunk, and then left to another city and haven't heard from him since Friday. We did everything we could to help strengthen him and prepare him for the temptation to come. It stinks that temptation is so strong for people right before their baptism. Lame.
Sunday was good though. We had a good church meeting and we had a big planning session on how we can get people to church. (Because that is one of the most important things for investigators.)
This past week we have been trying to be finding people. We don't really have any progressing investigators. We have one woman, who is the sister of a member, who is going through a hard time, and we're trying to teach her. We've only been able to really sit down and teach her once though, which stinks. But she will be progressing this week, if we can get her to church. We also found the father of one of our investigators who has been to church a few times, we're going to start working with him to try and get him excited and baptized. He's worried about raising kids in these troubled times, so hopefully that will help us teach him.
We also started an English class this week to help and find new investigators. I basically taught it this first time! haha We were just teaching basic things like introducing yourself and getting to know other people. And a member here painted a custom picture for me! I'm going to try and send it home so you can put it up on the wall. =) It might be a while though.
Sorry I’m kind of all over the place with this email. This week we were trying to work with members more, but it just kept not lining up right, but we have two family home evening marked for this next week, and we're going to try and get a member to come out with us every single day, because the investigators also need a friend in the church, because we can't take everyone to church in the morning.
Well sounds like you are having fun! Go drew on basketball! Yeah! Haha sorry the email didn't get to you last week. That's about it, I’m having fun, well, I’m happy at least, for the majority of the time =) I’m still trying to get this missionary thing down. Love you all!
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