Hello everyone!
This week has been really up and
down. We only taught three lessons to investigators, because a lot of them
cancelled on us. One of them was to a man named I. He is writing a book about
the Second Coming, and we think that he might be using us as a sounding board,
instead of actually being interested in the church. He has committed to read
the Book of Mormon, albeit about the Second Coming. We think that if we can get
him to come to church, we can figure out what he is really looking for, so that
is what we are working on now.
Y is continuing to do marvelously.
She is so excited, she actually asked us for Book of Mormon reading
assignments. I get the feeling that she was waiting for us to ask her to read
something, even though she has had a Book of Mormon for a while. Woops. But she
is very excited. Now we just need her to approach her husband so that she can
come to church. She could easily be baptized very soon.
We also found a new investigator
while tracting last Monday. He was actually my first solo door approach, and as
part of my training, I lead out on teaching him the Restoration. Surprisingly,
it went much better than I thought it would. I have been struggling in all of
the role-plays that I have been doing lately, and it has been really hard to get
my point across. But with A, it just came naturally. So I guess I just need the
Spirit and a real investigator to talk to if I want things to work. He is a
Sikh, and he has never read the Bible, even though he is very interested. So we
gave him a Book of Mormon and a couple chapters to read, and we are going to
bring him a Bible next Sunday when we go back for our next appointment. I
really hope that this works out. We really need another solid investigator. So
many of the investigators who were solid and progressing before I got here have
slipped away. I've never even met most of them. It's like as soon as transfers
happened, they decided they didn't want to meet anymore, or everything started
to go wrong in their lives and they didn't have time to meet. So it's like
starting from scratch, while still trying to keep these investigators. And then
the Elders in this ward have so many solid progressing investigators. They even
have a baptism this Saturday. I'm so excited for that, but at the same time,
ward leaders are noticing the difference in our progress records, and one of
them mentioned something about it on Sunday. I feel like I'm trying my best,
but nothing is working out, but no one else sees the work, just the results. I
don't know how to fix it.
On the bright side, President and
Sister T had some training last week with Elder Holland, and they have called a
special multi-zone conference for this Thursday! From this and the little bits
in his weekly e-mail, they got taught something really special. I'm super
excited for that. And from Friday until Sunday, Sister C and I will have a mini
missionary with us. It's going to be a little interesting, because Sister C has
never done anything with a mini missionary before, and I obviously haven't
either. So it will be an adventure.
Speaking of adventures, we keep
getting lost. I have no mountains to orient myself off of, and the map isn't
always accurate, so we've gotten lost a few times because I can't figure out
the directions. It's really funny, but at the same time, it wastes a lot of
time, so let's hope I can figure out how to fix that problem as soon as
possible.
I love you all,
Sister Peterson
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