This is my tag in Jello! Someone got a hold of my tag and put it in jello!
Well the last week of the transfer went great! We
taught 14 lessons and met with with 8 families and discussed Family
Mission Plans with them. We have been sick since Tuesday but other than
that its been a Great Week!
Elder Gonzales and Elder Till are going to be
transferred so its sad... Elder Till will be transferred to Tule Springs
and Elder Gonzales will be staying in the Zone in the Palmyra ward. I
will be getting a new Zone Leader, Elder Campbell. I'm very excited to
be getting him! He is full of energy and is super hilarious!
The other day we didn't have a dinner so we stopped
at Wendy's to grab something real quick. The kid at the register said
that we looked like FBI agents. Then after looking a little closer he
said, "Oh Jesus Christ, ok". We told him who we were and talked for
quite a while. He said he would be interested in meeting with us and
might want to come to church soon. His name is Leroy and he seemed to be
pretty interested!
We had a pretty good lesson with a part member
family this week. We went over for dinner and in the past its been a
little awkward because they argue and fight all the time. Well, after
dinner we shared the Mormon Message, Reclaimed, and then asked what they
thought about it. He doesn't really have a belief in religion or
anything like that and he asked us some questions. It was a little bit
hostile at first and I was just sitting there listening to his wife try
to explain it and them just arguing. After a while I just told him how
god loves him and that I know that God loves me and that's why he's
given me religion and church. Of course there was a lot more that we
discussed but the basic message was that God loves him. Elder Gonzales
shared some thoughts and committed him to pray. I don't know how much we
were able to 'help' him but I do know that the lesson ended a lot
better than it started :)
This is just a random thought but I see myself
turning into my dad so much more than I was before. In the way that I
laugh and also in the way that I act in serious situations. I used to
always think, 'aw why does he always have to be so serious when...' and
now I see myself turning into that, while talking to investigators but
more especially in talking with missionaries about serious things. Its
Great! Now I understand Dad! :)
So we had a wonderful Zone Training Meeting this
week! The Theme of the month is 'The Living Christ'. So we decided to
get everybody a framed "Living Christ" (dollar stores are amazing!) We
talked of how the apostles fulfill their responsibility to be special
witnesses of christ and watched a movie where Elder Holland is talking
to a returned sister missionary and tells here that the only difference
between his service and her service is that her service only lasted 18
months and his continues. He also touched on the fact that missionaries
are Apostles with a little 'a'. So we talked about what it means to us
to be apostles who, as the word means, are 'sent forth' to preach the
gospel and be witnesses of Christ. We had them write their own
missionary commission and then at the end we had them take 'The Living
Christ' out of the frame and sign their name under the Fist Presidency.
Hopefully some of it made an impact and I am so grateful for the
opportunity to be a missionary and have all my efforts focused on
Christ!
We had a lesson with the Worku family the other day
and it was probably the best lesson we have ever had with them! We had
the 2 Worku kids, the mom, and 2 little cousins there. We went over the
ten commandments and showed them hand signals they can use to remember
all of them. They were all very engaged and they loved it! We decided
that we are going to get a Primary manual and start teaching out of
that!
There's a less active in the ward that we were able
to meet with this week as well. She is having a hard time financially so
she is going to leave to work somewhere else for a few months. Her
daughter is not a member and the mom was very worried about her being
alone. They came to church and met a bunch of good people! Hopefully
everyone will continue to reach out to them and show them love! They are
a great family!
We had a lesson with Bryan this week and made a
Baptismal Calendar for him. We also gave him a blank teaching record to
show him what we still need to teach. We are teaching him tonight after
transfers and then again on Wednesday. the only thing that could keep
him back from baptism is coming to church since he works most Sundays.
So yesterday was one of the best Sundays of my
mission! We had 6 Investigators there! Savannah, the Workus, Simon,
Konrad and his dad. it was great! There were some interesting things
that happened during church ie boring speakers, friends of scouting
during sacrament meeting and some other stuff, but overall it was great!
I am so proud/appreciative of the youth in the ward! They did a really
good job with accepting Konrad and helping him feel welcome! I think he
will come next week! Yay for awesome fellowshipers!
Well I think thats it for this week! I love you all and hope all is well!
Love,
Elder John
"If
we become too efficient at pushing, shoving, and shouting, then we are
too adapted to this world- too busy polishing skills which will ere-long
become obsolete." -Neal A. Maxwell
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