This week was slow in terms of work. We weren't able to teach tons of lessons. I also got pretty frustrated with people at times this week and was a little discouraged at times as well. But the end of the week was better. So, I've been trying to find out how to work better in this area. So I was a little disappointed at the start of the week because of this. So we've been kinda experimenting. We've been trying to work with inactives this week, we knocked a few door and have just been trying to find out what will work the best here in this area. I was really excited this week because on of my best friends here on the mission, Elder Lefoll was transferred and is now living in the same house as me. Yesss!
So we found some good investigators this week. I'm expecially excited for Joselia and Raquele. I dont know if i told you about them yet. They have gone to church 2 weeks straight By Themselves, which is awesome. We're going to mark baptism dates with them this week. Joselia is like half deaf so its really funny when we teach her. We are basically yelling the lessons to her. They are really humble and its awesome. Raquele is 17, and really shy, but the young women in the ward are awesome and really help include her in everything so this is helping her a lot. We will mark a date for them to be baptised on the 22. It'll be awesome.
So, knocking doors always brings some interesting experiences. We found an awesome family, Daniela and Terezina, a mom/grandmother and her daughter. Terezina(the mom) had talked witht he missionaries a few years back, but that was an awesome first lesson. They were really interested to know about our message, and that was probably one of the best lessons we had taught in a while.
We also met a huge family knocking doors one night. They were pretty cool, we didn't have time to actually teach them the 1st lesson that night but we marked to come back. One of the members of that family said that she was running out of faith and needed someone to pray for her two kids who were a little bit sick this week. And then we showed up. Awesome. I always love that--seeing that we are really inspired by the Spírit to talk to certain people who are being prepared to hear our message.
Another experience that was awesome, was that we knocked a door becasue someone was playing piano. An old lady came to the door and invited us in. She and the three other people there were Baptists and were playing some hymns (a lot of the hymns that we have, they have too). And one of the guys there, an old blind singer, was awesome! So we decided to sing a little bit with them, and the lady that invited us in said that the Spirit was there more fully when we arrived, just goes to show that we really are messangers of God and that we bring the Spirit with us. We are going to go back there and teach the first lesson to her and see how it goes.
The ward here started a program to rescue the inactives of the ward (which is like 300) so they have started to visit all of them, to see if they would be receptive to a visit of members, or the missionaries. Its pretty cool. So hopefully we'll get some pretty good people to teach who want to come back to church and also part member families.
So yeah. Thats about it. So I heard that I got a package, but I dont have it, because the bag it was in for some reason or another (mainly that the other elders left it at the bus station) went to the complete other end of the mission. Soo, I won't get it until midway through the transfer or something. But yeah.
Something else that I'm wishing for? mike and ikes. Like always. And maybe a bottle of Mountain Dew. =) But yeah, maybe another pair of pants would be nice. All the ones I have are a little short. So a 32/32 would work. But yeah, you talked about sending a calendar. That would be cool. By the time I get it it will already be 2013.
That's about it. Thanks for everything fam. I love you all, I love you mom.
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