Dear Family,
This
week was terrific! We we able to go to the temple this last Wednesday
and it was great! I learned more than I've ever learned in the temple
this last trip! It is a great place to be and it should be the goal that
each of us has in our spiritual cross-hairs. This week the
Doxies,
a recently baptized part member family, went to the temple with the
ward to do baptisms for the dead and they had a great experience! The
Doxies are awesome! We went to visit a less active member and brother
Doxie was there with the elders quorum president giving him the sacrament after church! So cool!
We have been using the survey and have made some good contacts to
follow up with. We need to build our teaching pool and the survey is
helping tremendously! It has been getting dark very early as I'm sure
most of you can tell and with that it is finally getting cold! So we put
on our black sweaters while we were knocking doors, around 5:30 or so.
We come up to a certain house and knock on the door. In a few seconds a
woman opens the door and screamed really loud. I guess her and her
husband were just then walking out the door and they didn't hear the
knock. So she was very unhappy to be surprised by two men in black,
silhouetted against the moon light.
There was a baptism for an investigator, Mimi, in Red Rock this
past Tuesday (12th) but I was not able to go to it. We had a dinner
scheduled with a family and they told us Sunday, as we were about to ask
if we could eat after the baptism, that they were going to invite a
non member to dinner. So I decided that it would be better to meet with
the non member. I totally thought that we were going to show up and the
non member wasn't going to show up! However my pessimistic thinking was
proven wrong! We had a great dinner and discussion with this man and he
agreed to read the Book of Mormon. He lives in the other mission but he
said that he will read some of it!
We had a lesson with the
Worku family this week. They are from Ethiopia and Elder
Herlin and his previous companion
tracted
into them. They are very nice but do not seem to be totally
committed... or even partially committed. We invited them to come to
church and they said they would if we called them. Well the day of
reckoning came and they fell short! So hopefully we can get them to
understand the significance of the message.
We also talked with a less active member who hasn't been to church
since he was a little kid. He talked to us for about an hour and a half
about conspiracy theories and a bunch of other random stuff. There are
some great people you meet as a missionary!
Well I love you all and hope all is going well in your lives!
Love,
Elder John
"The worlds wisdom can be helpful, but only like a lighthouse that works some of the time" -Maxwell
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