Ok, I have to cruise because the computer has a limited amount of time
and other elders are waiting, and unfortunately it's kind of late so
I'll give a brief run down. The storm was supposed to be epic and
unfortunately completely missed our area! Haha so it really wasn't that
bad, we were told to stay inside and all day all it did was rain and
blow a little wind, so unfortunately it was nothing spectacular. Other
than that this week has been a difficult one... We have a bunch of
people that were showing so much potential but that now are
struggling... We haven't been able to get in contact with a lot of
people, despite our repeated efforts and we're now pretty sure that most
of them are avoiding us. So it's been kind of a difficult week... It's
good because it's reminding once again of that mentality that you need
to have in the field of doing everything possible and then relying on
the Lord to provide the miracle, and miracles are happening. Just the
other day we were checking on a former when I felt the distinct need to
knock some doors around there. The first door we knocked was an old lady
that said she had just received a Book of Mormon from a friend that had
been trying to get her to listen to the missionaries. She knows a ton
about the church and says that maybe since she wasn't willing to let her
friend pass us to her God just decided to send us by! It was pretty
amazing and we should be teaching her later on this week. Other than
that, this week was crazy, we had a ton of meetings, and we also had
Elder Cook come and give a special mission conference. He talked a lot
about member missionary work, about the new influx of missionaries that
will be coming in, and about a lot of the changes that will be coming.
The work of the Lord is definitely progressing and we're going to see an
increase in the number of missions, missionaries, etc. It's pretty
incredible! I only wish that I could extend two or three transfers to
see it all happen! We also had some other meetings, Zone Leader Council,
which I admit it was hard to be on the other side again. It was just a
shock to realize all the things that have been happening that I haven't
even heard about when before I was informed on everything. It was
weird... Anyways, my time is really short, I'm sorry I don't have time
to say more, but things go well, I'll be sure to write more next week!
Haha ok, I found another computer with a longer time limit. So I
still have to fly, but I'll try and give a little bit more detail. So
this week we also went on exchange and blitzed an area and saw this
incredible miracle! We knocked on the door of a less-active family and
they answered the door and invited us in and the first thing that the
lady says to us was that she had a friend that she wanted us to teach!
Apparently the Sunday beforehand she'd spoken to her about some of the
things that have been going on in her life and she ended up watching the
restoration DVD with her as well! So that day she set up an apppintment
for that night and the Elders were able to go and teach her! It was
awesome especially since that area has literally had 0 investigators for
over 3 weeks! It was a pretty awesome miracle! The Lord continues to
show forth His hand in the work! Man, it's once again been so humbling
to be out back in the field. You realize so much how you literally know
how to do nothing. They talk about building an area, etc., but in the
end after all you do it really is God that does the work. We've been
working effectively, organizedly, etc. and yet not too much seems to be
happening. But we continue to look for ways to improve and just keep
expecting those miracles that we know are bound to come, haha but it's
definitely been hard!
Elder Cook also left us with an Apostolic blessing that our mission
would bless the lives of everyone that we care about, our families and
friends now and in the future. So that's another brief rundown.
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