Monday, May 25, 2015
Fence Sitting, Dwopped, Silent Investigation, Rare Participation
So I have a question to start this email off... What do you call a dog
that has no legs? ........ It doesn't matter cause he won't come when
you call him anyways!
Ya some lame humor but what a great way to start off an email am I
right? Anyways down to business. This past week we were kept pretty
busy once again, especially at the beginning of the week. We almost
averaged two each day of the week with some more and others less. Last
Monday I received a call from a Less Active the sisters visit within
our area, who was in a lot of hysteria and emotional turmoil. Her name
is Sister Anton. The Sisters haven't seen her in a month so we went up
and had a lesson and a blessing with her. The sisters hadn't kept very
good records on her keeping commitments so I had no idea why they
weren't seeing her, until a little later on in the week. They had good
reason but Elder Crowther and I will now be taking a shot.
Tuesday we had an interesting lesson with Brian. Usually things are very
warm and filled with conversation but his one there were long gaps of
silence as we helped get some things set up at his home. He had left
his phone in the car when he came to church and his wife called him
multiple times after the first hour thinking that we had kidnapped him,
haha. I feel though that this was probably the largest reason why
things were so awkward since his wife isn't the most friendly towards
us.
We ended with a really good lesson on faith though and I hope to make
amends this coming visit. Wednesday I was on Exchanges with Elder
Bevans. We ere mostly on the run for the whole exchange however we
ended up dropping the Layton/Brown family while together. It's hard to
go for so long with not much success but I do hope that this drop
helps them come back.
Later on that night Elder Bevans and I were going to a lesson with a
guy named Joey, who Elder Crowther and I had found the week previous.
He had stopped his car and had us come around the corner so we could
talk with him then and we had some good conversations. However this
trip turned for the worse. On our way there he was driving and had
forgotten about our visit (which we had rescheduled fifteen minutes
prior...). Had us jump in and drove us down to a park where some of
his buddies and sisters were all the while joking that he had weed in
his trunk.... Which ended up being true since he started selling it
when we got down there :/. We quickly learned that he believes in all
the crap that the Internet and TV shows have to say from "intense"
bible study such as the Nephaliem (don't ask). Let's just say that we
will never go back :).
Friday we had an awesome experience. We received an investigator from
one of the New York missions named Miguel. Well even more interesting
is the fact that Miguel is deaf so our entire lesson was via iPad
since I only know how to sign the alphabet... Which I learned works
just fine yesterday haha. But it was amazing! The missionaries in New
York got him off of weed, smoking, and drinking and he asked if he
could be cleaned in water. We responded "You want to be baptized?" He
gave us a puzzled look so we showed him a picture and he began to nod
profusely! He asked twice more that lesson the same question so we set
him for the 19 of July since he will be gone some time :D!
It was amazing. We just need to convert someone who speaks sign so
that we can keep him active in our church :). I would love to but more
than likely I will be leaving this transfer :(.
Last up in news is our dinner at Mike and Dana's last night. Usually I
just brush over this but last night was a bit special. We asked Dana
if we could do another practice lesson and she said yes. We did the
plan of salvation and for the first time Dana participated super well
and was actually interested in what we had to say. I'm not saying we
should fill the font yet since the water will go cold but we had a
great lesson non the less :).
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