So this week, we had to wear our sweatshirts a
little. It was windy, dark clouds
covered the sky, and looked like it would rain but didn't. However there wasn’t any sun so 67 degrees
felt way colder than it really was. We
had 2 days in the 60s this week. I do
not like what is happening. Why does it
have to be cold? Well, I guess I will
just have to live with it.
Monday we went and got haircuts at a barbershop
in town. We got some interesting looks since
we were the only white people in there, but we didn’t care and they did a good
job. They didn’t shave any lightning
bolts or jersey numbers into the side of our heads so it’s all good. :) After
that we just chilled until the end of the day when a YSA member came and we did
some slack lining. So that was
fun.
Tuesday we met with Dean for a little bit and
tried to see when we could meet with him again. We talked with his sister afterwards and tried
to help her as well. Some of her issues
are a bit out of our league, but we did the best we could. Later we did some finding and contacted
referrals. We then went with Bro Smith
and saw some members of the branch and we even gave one of them a blessing that
her foot would be healed.
Wednesday we had District Meeting and later we
contacted more referrals. We then headed
to a former investigator's house and as we pulled up, she was outside yelling
at some people and they were saying something about a gun. Needless to say, it was bad timing so we left since
things seemed to be in control at the time and went down the street to
Jacqueline and Letia's to have a lesson with them. As we were there, we saw cop car after cop car
go down that road to that lady’s house. We
have no idea what happened, but hope everybody is OK. We had a great lesson with the family about
the importance of church. They have a
lot going on, but we are trying to help them so much. They are still working on a date they can get
baptized. After that lesson we saw a
less-active and talked about the power of the Book of Mormon.
Thursday we did some weekly planning. We then had a lunch with a crazy less-active
again. After that we had another lesson
with a guy we haven't seen in a long time.
Friday we met with Zack and went over the 10
commandments. He is still working
towards baptism, even though it is a little ways off. We then met with Rebecca and Olivia and went
more into detail of keeping the Sabbath day holy. We then headed to see Dean again, but he was
sleeping and we ended up talking to his sister again. She had a much different presence about her than
when we saw her a few days ago. Later
that night, the Sister Missionaries asked us to meet with one of their
investigators named Shantez. He has a
hard time remembering the things they teach so they wanted to get our opinion
on how to teach him or help him better. It was a pretty good lesson and he remembered
a lot more then we were expecting. We
talked about a lot of different things and we even taught the lady that drives
him around.
Saturday we contacted a Bible referral and we
ended up talking to her for an hour. She
lives in one of the three projects in our area and it was much nicer inside
then we thought. She said she was going
to come to church Sunday, but never showed up. Then we went and did a bunch of finding and
tracting. Right before we went to dinner
we were tracting and we met a lady named Margaret. She doesn’t know much about the gospel and
doesn’t have much education, but she wants to learn and said she would come to
church, but never showed. We are looking
forward to teaching her though. We then
had dinner and taught the 9 yr. old girl. It was a much better lesson than the last
couple times. It will definitely be a
process and a long time before she can get baptized though.
Sunday we had the Primary program at church. Not much else happened though.
Well that has been my week. Can't believe
October is already coming to a close. Time
flies when you’re doing the Lord's work. And there will be much more joy in the world
if everyone can have faith in Jesus Christ. So share Him with everyone. There was a scripture I read out of the Book
of Mormon in 3 Nephi 18 that is Jesus talking to the people and He says that
because they have seen Him and know who He is, they must now share it with
everyone. If they do not keep this
commandment, they will be victim to temptation. The same goes for us. It is a commandment to share the gospel and if
we love Him, we will keep His commandments. I says these things in the name of Jesus
Christ, amen.
Elder Ellison
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