Jan 19, 2011

 

Well it was a pretty good week. We had the three conformations on sunday for C__ A___ and I___.   I was asked to confirm A___ and I got to do it in english so he could understand it better. The stake president was in there and commented on the sweet spirit the conformations brought into the meeting. We had a meeting with all 10 wards ward councils last night with our mission president to discuss the wards failure on the ward mission process. He was very blunt with the wards and told them that if all the wards meet the requirements that we as full time missionaries should be teaching upwards of 100 lessons a week as a companionship but we are not even teaching 15 so he said it shouldnt be too hard to get us up to 25 lessons a week. He hammered that as missionaries it is not our job to find it is the members jobs, we are full time teachers. He came up afterwards and congratulated Elder Fordham and I on our baptisms and told us to keep up the great work.

    J__ came to church on sunday and we are going to try and give him a baptismal date tonight for Feb 6. He is progressing fast and loves learning, so we meet about 2 or 3 times a week. We had a referal R___ who we always stopped by and made appts but he never showed up and his roommates would always give him a bad time about having misionaries stop by for him. So we dropped him before we could even get a lesson in. On sunday we had a weird impression to stop by again, so we did. He opened the door and actually let us in right then and there. It was quiet and we taught The Restoration and he loved every second of it. Afterwards he apologized and said his roommates didnt like us stopping by but they had moved out the night before. The only question he had when we were done was "Can you come again tomorrow?". So we taught him monday night and tuesday night and he wants us to come back again tonight too! He loves learning and the spirit he feels and so he wants us to stop by every night. I gave him a baptismal date monday and so he is on schedule to be baptized feb 13. We found 4 more people who we are now teaching, one is a less active who left the church after she got pregnant at the age of 16 and the ward black sheeped her. We talked to her for about 20 min on her door step just getting to know her and she said we could come back sometime. I feel that the moment she feels the spirit it will bring back memories of her past spiritual experiences. M__ is another less active we are visiting. He got divorced 1.5 years ago and it destroyed him so he stopped coming to church and he stopped really having faith at all. We talked with him for over and hour and he expressed how he felt abandoned. I asked him if he was still saying his prayers and he said no. I promised him that the moment he got on his knees and prayed those feelings of abandonment would go away, he told us to come back whenever we wanted.

    We had dinner the other night at a ladies house, turns out she sings in the Mormon Tabernacle Chior. She sang for 10 years and traveled all over the world. The chior is an amazing missionary tool because the people listen to the music and feel the spirit so strong. This morning at 6 we went to the Oquer (spelling?) Mountain Temple. It is gorgeous and over looks the whole valley. On the way we drove right by the lindemans house!!!!
Anyways that was the basics of my week. Lots of tracting and lots of success. Love you all! Church is ture and anyone who doubts it or doesn't know should our knees in honest sincere prayer and ask God the Eternal Father and you will recieve you answer. Have a great week