Dear home,
Good week.
We started off with a branch family home
evening on Monday. It was a
pretty fun activity in which we portrayed
the plan of salvation
through a relay race and then we talked
about how it relates to our
Heavenly Father's plan for us. That was
nice.
We also had zone conference this week. This
was pretty good. This
Tuesday (tomorrow) we are having elder
Nielsen of the 70 (the one I
met a while ago in MLC) and some other
higher ups from the church are
coming to update some iPad stuff for us.
Should be some big changes
from what they were saying. So we shall see.
Later on, we had exchanges. I got to go with
our good old english man,
Elder Bishop in El Sereno. Nothing too crazy
there. Good stuff.
We've had some pretty good progress with one
of the less actives we
are working with. His name is Helaman. He's
a really good guy,
returned missionary and all that. But he has
a had a roller coaster of
a life. About a month ago, he and his wife
were on the brink of
splitting up, but their kids barely held
them together. We were able
to talk to him when elder Stuart first got
to the area and he pretty
much told us that he's going to leave all
excuses behind (blaming his
wife, kids, work, school, etc..) and just
start to come back to
church. Which has been great, because he
hasn't missed church since!
And even greater, his nonmember wife came
this past Sunday. She was
pretty cold to us last time we tried to
teach her along her husband,
but when we visited the family yesterday,
she was pretty happy! It's
been great to see because I feel like so
many people make excuses for
everything when in reality it's just a lack
of desire. If someone
really wants to do something, they will just
do it! I will always
remember what one of the returning less
actives we were working with
in Pomona told us: "People always have
time to listen to you [elders].
All the excuses you hear from everyone are
just because they don't
want to change and they don't know what they
are missing out on." So
we are doing our best to help Helaman keep
this streak he has going
on.
Other than that, investigators are doing
pretty well. Mateo has his
date for this weekend, but we may have to
postpone it a week just to
make sure his drinking is all good. But he
has been doing great,
otherwise. He had a cousin pass away this
past week and we went over
the plan of salvation with him. He's a great
guy because he is very
spiritual sensitive and really sharp. It was
great to see him
understand the plan that Heavenly Father has
prepared for us.
Love you all!
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