Hello Everyone,
Sorry for not
sending an email yesterday. The mission switched our Pday for the week, I will
get to that later. This week has been pretty great. We had transfers on
Wednesday, which is really weird because it seems like it just happened. It was
great to see everyone again.
We also
have been able to teach a few investigators this week. They are some very interesting people. One of our
investigators, her name is Michelle Commock. We tried teaching her the fist
lesson but it did not go so well. She kept asking all of these different,
questions so it was really hard to stay on track with the lesson. Overall it
went all right. I do not know if we will be able to continue teaching her. She
said she does not want to meet with us on a consistent basis because she feels
satisfied with the church that she is going to. We will need to have a powerful
lesson with her so that she can feel the Spirit more strongly.
Another man
we taught this week is strait from India. His name is Moses. He has lived in the
United States for about a year now so he has a very thick accent. He has been
in contact with missionaries for a while, but we have recently received him as
a referral so we decided to give him another shot. We went over there and we
had in mind that we were going to teach the first lesson to him. As we did it
was going pretty well, but it almost went strait to the Book of Mormon, which
is great. We played Elder Holland's
testimony of the Book of Mormon. It was very powerful and the Spirit was so
strong. After that we bore our testimony's on the Book of Mormon and the Spirit
came even more. I am not sure how much he understood, but he told us that he
felt good, so we know that he was feeling the Spirit as well. We committed him
to read the Book of Mormon and he said he would.
The reason
why the mission postponed our Pday was because Elder Perkins of the Seventy
was coming to give us training and the only day he could come was on Monday. So
yesterday we had a Zone Conference and it was great! Elder Perkins talked about Preach My Gospel and how we can use it better. He also talked about the
importance of the first lesson we teach with investigators. It was a really
awesome experience. A couple weeks before this meeting the leadership in our
mission told us that we needed to prepare a 3-5 minute talk on our purpose as a
missionary and also prepare a 10 minute lesson on the first lesson in Preach My Gospel which is the Restoration. So during the meeting they had random Elders
and Sisters coming up and giving the talks that they prepared. At the end
of the meeting, Elder Perkins called up random companionships to teach the
restoration to a senior couple, acting as investigators, in front of everyone.
I am so glad we did not get called on haha. But we all did learn a lot from those role plays.
That is a
little about my week. It was pretty good. Thank you so much for all of your
emails and I hope that you all have a great rest of the week.
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