8 September 2014

Hello family!

So here is the rundown of my week.

On Monday after writing you, I took a trip to the beach with my trio. It seemed like we ought to take advantage of such a convenient and free resource. :) And we took lots of pictures, including jumping ones. And I saw J, one of my investigators from P who had come to T for the afternoon.

Tuesday morning my new companion arrived. That afternoon I mostly took her to visit members, recent converts, and the couple of investigators that we still had.

On Wednesday we set out to contact and contact and contact. It was really the only option we had. Our area doesn't have many members, so we have to find investigators on our own too.

Thursday we had zone conference. Hna O had been last week in C, so it was her second round. 

Friday we contacted and contacted and contacted. Are we noticing a pattern? We are definitely going to have to work hard and follow the Spirit's guidance if we want to find people to teach. Part of the problem is that our area is large and even the part that is close to the chapel is a 10- or 15-minute walk away. So we have to help people have a sincere desire to go to the church. 

Saturday we had a baptism. Almost a year ago the sister missionaries (Sister H!) started teaching the nephew of the Relief Society president. However, he didn't get baptized because his Mom (who lives in the states) didn't give permission. However, shortly after I arrived the mom said that her son can do what he wants. J's desire to be baptized has increased and his mom has seen that he has stuck to this desire for a long time. Hna O and I reviewed the key points of the lessons because he'd already had them all. Then Saturday he got baptized. Yeah! We didn't even have to do much to organize the baptism. I almost feel guilty about being in the pictures. 

Yesterday we had a miracle and we had two investigators at church. I thought we would have none. One of them was someone I considered an eternal investigator. But he showed up at church and announced that he now wants to change and be baptized. His wife is a member, and she says he has never said that he wanted to get baptized. This time it isn't missionaries pushing. He said it himself. Wow!

Today we went back to the beach, and I discovered how to use the panorama setting on my camera. So we took some goofy pictures, running to appear twice in the same picture.

I hope you are all doing well. Have a wonderful week. I love you all very much!