Dear family..
This week was pretty good. We have gotten to know a few ward members better and have done tons of finding...
This week we got to see our only real investigator. Her children listen in too because they were the original contacts. They are awesome. The only problem is that they dont want to be just one religion. So we taught her about the restoration and authority. She said it made more sense and we committed her to pray to know if Joseph Smith was a prophet. She was scared at first because she knows that she will need to act on her answer but hopefully she does it. On another lesson we taught her we read from Alma 7 about repentance and baptism and her daughter asked why we needed to be baptized and have the Holy Ghost. We told her why and that baptism makes you clean and must be done with the proper authority. It really helped her mom out with her concerns. If they don't keep our commitments these next few visits we unfortunately are going to have to drop them:(
We have found quite a few other people to teach. We teach great lessons or they act really interested and then they ignore us at the return appointment. That has happened 6 times this week. And then we continue to try them over the course of the week and nothing. So basically we work really hard and teach a lot and then nothing. But it is ok because we give out a lot of copies of the Book of Mormon so even if they ignore us they at least have something to keep and maybe eventually look at.
We got to go to young womens this week and talk about missionary work. And help them come up with simple answers to the crazy questions people ask and help them talk about things that people make up about what we believe. They were all really receptive and they want to do missionary work more than the adults. They love my hairbows too and want me to teach them how to make them so maybe I will get to do that soon.
One of the less actives we are working with has started reading the book of mormon again and she has come to church the past two weeks. She is really nice. She is older and has been a member since 2004 but mostly less active. She reads true to the faith a lot too so at least some work we are doing is paying off here.
On saturday we got together with the Elders to do a "chalk talk", where you go to a park and draw out basic beliefs and principles in sidewalk chalk and then go and bring people over to see. It actually worked. Kind of. We got a lot of contacts but only one who gave us their address to come see them next week. It was fun though and we are going to do it at a different park. This park was pretty sweet because it has a carousel. It is a national historic landmark or something like that. It was built in 1910 or something and you can pay 50 cents to ride it. So we of course had to ride it just to see. It was fun. It was an old crank one so it goes really fast. Meridian has carousel horses all around town and I never really knew why until we went to the park here. We had to leave pretty early because the park becomes a red zone after 5:00 because a lot of crime happens there..such as shootings and drug deals and stuff. We are not allowed in a lot of places here because of that haha.
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