Dear family,
So here I am again; nothing terrible
exciting, but I will report regardless. This week went by pretty fast, and as
far as I know, nothing went super bad during this transfer like it normally
does. Sometimes I get really worried, but this one was pretty simple; I didn't
have to do much. My stay in the office has an end, but I don't know when it is
yet. Something interesting that happened is Sister T, (A Senior lady who worked
in the office) got diagnosed with cancer and is on her way to America to
receive treatment. To replace her and help out with the load, President called
2 more Elders to the office! So now I will party with Elder Ch, Elder Ca, and
Elder G. 4 white guys all from the USA. I have high hopes that this will turn
out to be fun, especially if we can play baseball! We’ve been experimenting
with a stick and frozen breadfruit; seems to work okay and makes a really good
sound when you hit it.
Because I don't have any amazing
information right now to share with you, I will share something that happens
every week and it’s kinda amusing if you’re really bored. So every morning I
wake up at 6:30 and do my exercise. On Sunday mornings I wake up at the same
time, but I don't do my exercises. So from 6:30 to 7 when I get ready, I do
something. I say “something”, but I’m not quite sure what I do. Most likely I
pace with drool hanging out my mouth like some diseased Zombie. I would
describe my mental state as my body being awake, but not my brain. It's like
the early Saturday morning when you wake up in a tent after a good night of
camping, you can see that it's light outside and you don't want to move because
it's cold and too early, so your brain floats in some gray area where your
awake but asleep at the same time. Your eye's see, but don't understand and
don't care. That’s me during 6:30 to 7 every Sunday morning. I don't remember
what I think about. But I’m sure its great.
Aside from my weird thinking, the work
in my area is good. We find investigators; some are more willing to listen than
others. We taught this one lady, she was described as a golden investigator so I
was really excited. (She is about 25 I think?) I heard she has a kid and isn't
married, but I’m not sure on that fact. She studies at the college here and
wants to be a scientist. She studies chemistry and biology and she is big into
experimenting to know the truth for herself (that's a golden trait). The other
thing is that she believes the Bible is completely perfect, no flaws
whatsoever, and by reading and believing what it teaches, everyone can be
saved. (She also has a wonderful testimony about Jesus Christ and what he did
for us). We taught the first lesson and we paid attention to the authority of
the church. We wanted her to see that to be the true church, said church needs
to have correct authority. If an ice-cream man pulls you over and demands you
pay a speeding ticket to him, you would laugh. Same with the church, is a
sinner says I’ll baptize the whole town and everyone will be saved, do you
think that is legit? Anyways, so we talked about that and she understood and
thought a lot about it. We then talked about how Joseph Smith restored the true
authority and church and we gave her a Book of Mormon. She was super excited to
read the Book of Mormon. We described it as an experiment, she can read and
pray and see what God says about it. She told us she would memorize the entire
Book of Mormon and tells us if it was true. I think she confused the word
memorize, but maybe not. I don't know. I’m excited to find out though!
Last thing we did this week was we hung
out a lot of days with M, our investigator from Wales. He's really awesome and
very talented and we have a really good time at his house. We went to ward
party with him and he totally just fit in. Work wise, he is kind of progressing.
He says he understands why we do everything and all the commandments make
sense, but it all hinges on whether or not God exists. I am trying everything I
can think of to help him but the only thing I can think of that he doesn't want
to live the standards and try it out. We don't receive a witness until after
the trial of our faith right? I'll include a picture of the big pig we had at
the party. But yeah he's a tough one. I’ll keep trying. That's about all I got.
I love you all so much!
P.S. I’m getting a ukulele!
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