Monday, January 19, 2015
WML Bronies, Baptismal Dates Max, Lundberg, God does Your Back Hurt? Cause You're Really Carrying this Team...
This weeks episode, we begin where we left off with the leaving for a
meal appointment with our Ward Mission Leader Brother Peterson. Well
like all appointments, we begin with the usual converse and
banter of topic to be told when I and the Peterson family made a
connection over Anime. Strange I know since I'm not the biggest one
for it but I had my two shows and a movie here or there.., besides the
point it started off with good conversation when I poked fun at my
little pony just to find out that both Brother and Sister Peterson are
into this new "My Little Pony" :/..... For such a small group I've
encountered the Bronie movement in all but one area of the mission
where I've saved myself or totally kicked myself. Well I digress from
said topic with a report that the food was good!
Tuesday was pretty darn exciting for Elder Litton and myself you see.
Most of the day was frankly uneventful right up until the very end
where we went and saw Gil with Nancy and her family. For the first
time since I have been over to that house we had everyone in on the
lesson and it was quiet! That never happens over there! They were all
participating to which was amazing as we taught the plan of salvation.
The only thing that marred the experience is that once we reached the
spirit world I asked Gill a question of what his thoughts were about
those who never heard about Jesus when he took a fifteen minute detour
about other religions and didn't even answer the question :/. Well
with no time left and the kids no longer attentive due to the detour
we set all but one up with a baptismal date!
We will get the last of Nancy's kids, she is like 11 and is just
worried about being called a Christian, which we explained we were, but
for whatever reason, it just didn't sink so we will be seeing them
tonight and finish the lesson :3.
So that brings us to a miraculous number of 6 baptismal dates, woot!
Nancy has been set with a date before but I wanna see this one go
through Ya know? Well I'll continue on to Wednesday. I went on
exchanges with Elder Lundberg (one of our zone leaders) in his area
which is the Frankford part of Philly. The day was pretty well set for
us. Lessons all day long with little finding time which I'm ok with
since teaching is the best! We had some less actives we visited at the
end of the day that had recently watched some anti videos called "What
the Mormon Missionaries don't want you to know". They knew that a lot
of the stuff wasn't true and who ever came up with that video was
quite the moron since we were able to resolve every concern in literal
moments :P.
They promised to come to church since we did that, so today I'll be
seeing if they did ;). Elder Lundberg had been my favorite zone leader
on the mission thus far and I hope that I can continue to serve around
him a little longer. We have transfers in two weeks and Elder Litton
and I don't know which of us is going but we are pretty sure that at
least one of us will :(.
I came back from the exchange to have a sick dog for a companion.
Elder Litton got a 24 hour flu like thing and due to a Plummer that
never showed up and Littons condition not much happened. Lately I've
wondered if that flu shot might have been worth it since lately
everyone we teach has been getting it and I know that I can't keep
getting lucky rolls of the dice, haha. But it's a bit late now and I'm
still to stubborn to get something that has a "chance" of keeping me
safe... Seen more of a "chance" getting it afterwards :P.
Friday was taken up by zone conference. It was good as usual.
Compliments, rebukes, teaching and guidance. It took up pretty much
the whole day and since Elder Litton had a meeting afterwards, I went
with Elder Chapman to Frankford where we had a lesson and played UNO
with their branch members which was nice.
Saturday is where the amazing stuff happened. A few days before a lady
named Denise had called and we set up an appointment. For the
past four months we've either talked to her outside of the door since
we didn't have a guy with us or when we did she wasn't home. Very
frustrating haha. Well we finally got to go in with a member. We were
only able to teach a bit of the restoration since this particular
member has his interesting ways of explaining things but besides that
she is super prepared and though we didn't set her with a date we
invited her to be baptized which she agreed to once she new it was
true!
We then went straight to Daisy with some other members. Great as usual
Daisy is probably one of the most prepared person I've worked with. We
taught the word of wisdom but she had already quit drinking a couple
years ago, was working on quitting smoking, doesn't drink coffee, and
only has iced tea every once in awhile :3. She came to church
yesterday and loved it too! She is an awesome lady and I think that
she will be baptized real soon here. Hopefully while I am still here!
;)
God works miracles yes he does. Well that about concludes our week. We
were going for a go for broke plan yesterday and get as many lessons
as possible when meetings and a last minute notice to play the organ
kinda, well broke our plans :P.
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