It's been a very interesting and exhausting week. I don't know why I
have been so tired lately. I just don't seem to have much energy, which
is no good, because I need to walk everywhere!
We taught M twice this week and she is doing a little
better. The first lesson this week, we invited her to be baptized and
she said yes, but when we invited her to set a date, she said that she
wouldn't because she smokes. But she is willing to let us help her stop
smoking, which she hasn't been willing to let missionaries help her with
before, so there is progress there. When we met with her the second
time, she had cut back from 10-15 cigarettes to 8 cigarettes a day. It
is wonderful progress, but she is trying to do it all on her own
willpower, which isn't going to work. She isn't doing anything different
when she gets a craving except trying to ignore it. She needs to be
more diligent in her scripture reading and praying. The problem is that
she doesn't exactly believe in God. She wants to believe in a lot of
things, but she isn't willing to act on something to get that belief.
It's a little frustrating.
We also saw R again on Saturday. That has to have been one of
the most crazy lessons I have been in. Not that I have been in a lot,
but still. We have slowly been reviewing the Restoration with her, and
we talked to her about the Book of Mormon.
We've started passing out the invitation/pass along cards for the
fireside at the end of the month. We have had some really cool
experiences with that. On Thursday, we got a call from a guy named J.
Someone had given him one of the cards on the Skytrain and he wants to
learn more about how Christ can help him in his life. We haven't been
able to get a hold of him since then, but he does want to meet. And
people are more willing to take this card then a normal pass along card.
Hopefully, this fireside will be a success.
We also got a HQ referral this morning. Apparently a woman in this area was looking at mormon.org
and has requested missionary visits and she put down her number and
address. So we are going to be following up with that this week.
Hopefully she will be a really solid investigator. We definitely need
some of those right now. Everyone seems to be flaking out lately, which
is rather discouraging. I have a really cool foot tan though. I'll send
you a picture of it soon, when it has a chance to darken a little more.
Love you,
Sister Peterson
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