Hello Everyone!
I hope you all had a great week! Last
week was little bit of a struggle:
Monday we did not do much we. We ended up
getting snowed in again, so we really didn't do too much. We finally broke out and ended up walking to the church to play some basketball and that is what we did
for the rest of the day.
Tuesday we were able to meet with a part-member family that
the past missionary's had been working with. The lesson went pretty well, the father of the family is a member that has not been to church in a little while
because of his work and his wife is not a member.
Wednesday we were able to
meet with Igor and the lesson went really well. He has opened up to us a lot.
Thursday we met with our ward mission leader and his family for dinner and we talked about some thing that the ward mission needs help with. It was a good
talk! Elder Lee and I are getting s better hang of the area, but we are still
meeting with members to be able to get to know them. I feel as we do that we
will be able to have a better grasp on where the ward needs help and where the
ward can help us. Later that night we had a lesson with a couple of our
investigators, Scott and Sonia. The lesson went really well and they said that
they would come to church!
Friday we met with a less active guy in ward named
Ghee Hall. We met a Ghee in a Starbucks coffee shop. We started off introducing ourselves and got to know Ghee for a little while and it was really fun.
Ghee is a very funny man who likes to joke around. Sometimes it was hard to
tell if he was joking or not. He told Elder Lee that he could order a coffee
and we weren't sure if he was serious or not. It was a fun lesson.
Saturday was
the day where it started to get a little frustrating. We had an appointment
with Igor for sometime in the afternoon. We went and checked up on his house
but his housemates told us that he had gone on a walk. Elder Lee and I decided to
go and try to find him. We started driving down the streets looking on both
sides see if we could find any signs of Igor. We finally found him, probably
about a mile from his house. He was on a super busy road so there was no way
for us to pull over and talk to him so we drove around the block and parked on
a side street. We gave him a call and he said that he would still like to meet
after he had finished his walk. So while we waited for him to finish his walk
we drove around checking on potentials, less active's, and former members. After
little while we checked back in on him. He told us that he was no longer able
to meet because he had another appointment that he had to attend.
Sunday we had
our normal services. Igor was supposed to come but we were unable to get a hold
of him. After our early-morning ward council meeting we went and checked up at
his house to see if we could get in contact with him but we were unable to.
Fortunately, Sonya, Scott, and Scott's daughter all came to church. It was good
to see them, they had not been to church since we have been in the area. During
second hour Elder Lee and I gave him a lesson on Jesus Christ. After
the second hour Sonia and Scott and Scott's kid had to leave. While they were
at church the ward did a great job of fellowshipping. It was really great to see.
After church we had a lesson with a less active man whose wife is investigating
the church. It was supposed to be both of them, but his wife was busy at work,
so we were not able to meet with her, but we still had a good time teaching and getting to know the husband. And later on the day we were able to attend the "Why I Believe" fireside. We were supposed to bring Igor, but we were not able to
contact him, so it did not work out. The fireside was awesome! Betsy Perez was
supposed to be giving her testimony but her mother-in-law had an emergency
operation performed so she did not speak. She will be speaking at next months
fire side. The keynote speaker was Sister Givens the wife of the man who spoke
last month. She gave a really good talk about why she believes. I'm so very sorry about this late email I
will try to get it out sooner next week. Have a fantastic week and I hope to
hear from all of you again thanks again!
Love,
Elder Johnson
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