Hello Everyone!
This week had
been a pretty good one. Monday was a pretty chill day. We just relaxed, went
shopping and hung out with our roommates. After Pday was over we headed over to a family for FHE.
It was...different. So the mother of the family is Ex-Baptist so
she is really into "PRAISE JESUS" kinda stuff so she was wanting my
companion to play the piano while she sang some Baptist hymns for the first 15
minutes. While they were doing this I was just zoned out, staring at these fish
in their fish tank attacking each other. It was a pretty interesting meeting.
When we got to the lesson part, it went really well. We talked about some of the
Commandments because one of the sons just got baptized and he needs to get the
new member lessons.
Tuesday was
our day of meetings, so that took up a good chunk of our day. Then we visited
with one of the members. His name Gregory, he is from Russia and he has
recently moved to the United States. He met the missionary's just a couple of
years ago. He is a very funny guy.
After that it was about dinner time. After dinner, we went
to go help the youth at a youth activity.
Wednesday we
went tracting for a while. We ended up finding two new investigators out of it.
One of them is Ebert. Ebert loves the bible and he loves Christ. When we
knocked on his door we gave the usual introduction and he was very kind but he
wasn't interested. Then he went on some random shpeel about how he worked for
the USPS for 40 years and he ended inviting us in to show off an award. He then
proceeded to tell us all about the bible. Anyway about an hour and a half later
we finally got a few minutes where we could talk. We found out that he had a
Book of Mormon and he read it back when he was 19. He still had the Book of
Mormon. So we showed him a few verses in the Book of Mormon and his mined was
blown. He was very interested about learning more. Only problem is that he
says he is very busy so we set up an appointment to meet with him in January. We will
probably drop in on him before then so he doesn't forget about us. We also
tracted into a guy named Mike who said we could come back Friday so we were
pretty pumped about that. And for the
rest of that day we had appointments with members.
Thursday we
went and helped out with the Madison field farm. They have purchased a massive house where they are going
to board autistic adults. So we helped move things all around the house. It was
very tiring. After we had finished with that it was about dinner time so we changed and showered and so we headed over to some members. After
dinner we went home and started calling people trying to set up appointments
because that was one of the only things we could do. Our mission has created some
new rules for the dark hours of the day because of all the crazy things that
are happening in the world. So at night we pretty much have to be with a member
at all times or be in our apartments doing some planning.
Friday we also
spent a lot of time with members. We helped this one lady in our ward make T
shirts. It was pretty funny. Elder Bentley and I made some comp shirts. They are pretty funny. We also were able to
meet with Mike. Mike is a super cool guy! He is from Panama and he has only
been living in the area for a couple of months. He is Christian, but has very
little knowledge of the bible. We taught him the first lesson and it was going
alright. You could tell that he was having a hard time grasping the first
couple a points. So we switched our teaching style. We tried to be very visual
giving him lots of object lessons and using videos as well. And that started to
work much better. As soon as we got to the Joseph smith story he was hooked. He
wanted to learn more. He wanted to read the Book of Mormon and he wanted us to
come back. We are very excited for him and being able to begin work with him
Saturday we
spent time finding and making a new area map. And going to our wards
coordination meeting.
Sunday was a
topical Sunday. We were not able to get anyone to church. We should be able to
get at least one next week.
Thank you so much for all the support you give! Have an
awesome week!
🦃Happy
Thanksgiving 🦃
🇺🇸🦃ElderJohnson🦃🇺🇸
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