I am doing pretty well!
My companionship is also doing pretty well. My companion is doing better than last week.
Our
area is doing well. We are going to have a baptism on this Saturday for
Crystal. Can you please pray that we will be able to discern
investigators' needs? Also that Esther will come to church?
Good? Lessons that have the Spirit strong in them, also that I found an elder who is from Germany.
Bad? We haven't been able to contact Angel, Camila, nor Barbera this week.
Challenging? Investigators who don't understand what we really offer.
Funny? There was this lifelong member who was like "Wait, I think the Nephites might be Jewish............"
New? My outlook on what having the Spirit with us continually means. I'll explain on the bottom.
The difference between me now and when I left? My trust in the Atonement has changed, also talking to people I don't know.
So, this week was pretty good for us. On Monday we went out to
Bakersfield to do emails, and that night we went to the bible study
again.
On Tuesday in the morning we had a service project with the Tim family. They live on a farm and it is awesome. We laid sod for their yard, and afterward, they showed us an old viking game. It's called Kud or something like that. It just requires 6 sticks and 10 blocks with on big block. It was a blast. Afterwards, we did windows of heaven, and we found 2 awesome investigators and one potential who becomes one later in the week! We knocked on one door and a hispanic lady answered. We asked if she was looking for a message of peace in her life centered on Jesus Christ, and she said "Yeah, but I can't right now. Come back tomorrow." We asked if anyone else was looking for that message in their lives, and she said "Yep, my sister and her family live in that house over there." We went to them, and they're formers who were super happy to see us. We taught the plan of Salvation. They are pretty cool. We also went by Esther and taught her the word of wisdom. It went well.
On Wednesday we had an oil change and interviews with president. They went well, and president told me that now was the time to learn everything I could from Elder Canul. We went by the lady who didn't have time for us the day before, and she was getting groceries out of her car, and was worried that she'd miss our appointment. She refused help with the groceries. We taught the plan of Salvation and she liked it, and wants us to meet and teach all of her family. We went to Pixly, and taught Gael, a less active's grandson. He is the coolest kid I have ever met, aside from my own family. He is 11 and only knows Spanish. After the lesson, they took us to Denny's, which was really nice of them.
On Thursday we went to the doctor for Elder Canul's eye, and the doctor said that he would have the blurs and stains and floaters in his eyes for the rest of his life. He did also say though, that eventually his eyes would adjust to them and ignore them. We informed president of the update, and he said that he also had those stains and blurs, but that he rarely sees them anymore because his brain adjusted. We taught Crystal, who is in the photo below, and she is getting baptized on March 4th, this Saturday! We also had correlation. It was a good time to update what's going on.
On Friday we had exchanges with the zone leaders, and I was with Elder Casper. It turns out, his parents are from Germany, and he speaks German! We explained our equal love for the language and spoke some. It was awesome. He also lived in New Orleans for a year, so we also talked about Louisiana. He is really cool. Also, he is the English elder for Oildale, so we worked in my first area! I forgot how ghetto oildale is. We saw many drunk people and others just yelling and dancing and shaking.... I forgot. We went back and did some tabling on Main Street. We had dinner with sister Roq, who took us to Denny's. It was fun, and she is super funny.
On Sunday we had church. About ten minutes before it started, someone called us, and said he needed a ride to church. On Tuesday we talked to a man who said "Oh yeah, I'll come to your church." And we just kind of nodded our heads like "yep, so is everyone else...." But he was serious and needed a ride, so we got him a quick ride and he came to church. It was cool.
On Saturday, there was also a baptism for the other Spanish elders. After this upcoming week, the English, Spanish, and our Spanish will have had one baptism each. It will be awesome!
On Tuesday in the morning we had a service project with the Tim family. They live on a farm and it is awesome. We laid sod for their yard, and afterward, they showed us an old viking game. It's called Kud or something like that. It just requires 6 sticks and 10 blocks with on big block. It was a blast. Afterwards, we did windows of heaven, and we found 2 awesome investigators and one potential who becomes one later in the week! We knocked on one door and a hispanic lady answered. We asked if she was looking for a message of peace in her life centered on Jesus Christ, and she said "Yeah, but I can't right now. Come back tomorrow." We asked if anyone else was looking for that message in their lives, and she said "Yep, my sister and her family live in that house over there." We went to them, and they're formers who were super happy to see us. We taught the plan of Salvation. They are pretty cool. We also went by Esther and taught her the word of wisdom. It went well.
On Wednesday we had an oil change and interviews with president. They went well, and president told me that now was the time to learn everything I could from Elder Canul. We went by the lady who didn't have time for us the day before, and she was getting groceries out of her car, and was worried that she'd miss our appointment. She refused help with the groceries. We taught the plan of Salvation and she liked it, and wants us to meet and teach all of her family. We went to Pixly, and taught Gael, a less active's grandson. He is the coolest kid I have ever met, aside from my own family. He is 11 and only knows Spanish. After the lesson, they took us to Denny's, which was really nice of them.
On Thursday we went to the doctor for Elder Canul's eye, and the doctor said that he would have the blurs and stains and floaters in his eyes for the rest of his life. He did also say though, that eventually his eyes would adjust to them and ignore them. We informed president of the update, and he said that he also had those stains and blurs, but that he rarely sees them anymore because his brain adjusted. We taught Crystal, who is in the photo below, and she is getting baptized on March 4th, this Saturday! We also had correlation. It was a good time to update what's going on.
On Friday we had exchanges with the zone leaders, and I was with Elder Casper. It turns out, his parents are from Germany, and he speaks German! We explained our equal love for the language and spoke some. It was awesome. He also lived in New Orleans for a year, so we also talked about Louisiana. He is really cool. Also, he is the English elder for Oildale, so we worked in my first area! I forgot how ghetto oildale is. We saw many drunk people and others just yelling and dancing and shaking.... I forgot. We went back and did some tabling on Main Street. We had dinner with sister Roq, who took us to Denny's. It was fun, and she is super funny.
On Sunday we had church. About ten minutes before it started, someone called us, and said he needed a ride to church. On Tuesday we talked to a man who said "Oh yeah, I'll come to your church." And we just kind of nodded our heads like "yep, so is everyone else...." But he was serious and needed a ride, so we got him a quick ride and he came to church. It was cool.
On Saturday, there was also a baptism for the other Spanish elders. After this upcoming week, the English, Spanish, and our Spanish will have had one baptism each. It will be awesome!
I need to apply the prophet's promise... But my heart needs to desire a missionary opportunity first probably, huh? Haha. Daniel you are an inspiration!
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