Thankfully, this week was a LOT more chill than last week's. Doesn't mean we worked any less hard, just got a solid amount more rest, which is very important :)
This week we had interviews
with President, which was rad because it was basically like hanging out
with Sister Mathews while waiting nervously for your turn of judgement.
In reality though, all went really well. I talked to President a bit
about how I can make sure these next 6 months of my mission can be some
of my best, and he talked about making sure I'm always progressing and
not stopping. We also talked about making sure that our area is doing
the exact same thing, meaning that we aren't just teaching lessons to
teach them, but that they are going towards a person's progression. The
highlight of the interview though was when President told me that he and
Sister Mathews are gunna take us out for lunch one of these days. I'm
stoked for that :)
After our interviews
though, Elder Penner and I had some time to think about the work we're
doing in our area, and have decided to begin a sort of re-haul of our
investigator pool. Rather than teaching lessons just to count them, we
want to make sure we're focusing on finding those people who are ready
and willing to progress, and if they aren't, then to push them a little
further back in line, and focus on other people. As a result, by the end
of the week, we had fewer lessons in total than any other week which
we'd had together, but at the same time, we didn't feel like that was a
problem, because the lessons that we taught, were lessons that really
mattered. It was boss.
We had a couple cool
experiences this week. One of them was with a newer investigator we
have, named Patrick. I don't remember if I've talked about him or not,
but he's the buddy of one of our less active members, and he's super
stoked about the gospel. We had started teaching him a few weeks back,
but couldn't find him again after a few visits, mostly due in part to
the fact we didn't know where his house was :P we ran into him again
this week, and came back to teach him the next day, and when we started
teaching, we mentioned something about baptism in our lesson, and he was
like, 'hey, you guys said I'm getting baptized on the 16th, right?'
(which we had marked him for), and he proceeded to tell us how he'd
begun to read a bit in the Book of Mormon, and recounted for us a bit
about the Joseph Smith story from what he read, and a bit of what he
read in 1 Nephi. We remarked him for the 30th of this month, conditional
of course on him coming to church, and are going back tonight to teach
him again. Sometimes I think Heavenly Father puts people in our path
that we had taught but forgot about, just to sorta say, 'don't forget
about this guy, you need to help him'. Patrick seems like one of those
kinda guys.
Another cool lesson from this week
is a sorta similar thing, we taught a new investigator named Manu, who
we had contacted in the past, but never found him again. On Saturday, we
got to teach him finally, and he was super receptive to our lesson. It
totally clicked for him, the whole idea that he could read in the Book
of Mormon. He's only available to talk on weekends, but he took our
number and was like, 'any day this week that I'm free, I'll call you
guys!'. The real highlight though was on Sunday, when we were sitting
and restructuring our battle plan for who to teach, when he saw us from
his mom's store, and shouted, 'hey Elders!' and gave a juice for free. I
was like 'we're not gunna buy today, sorry' and he was like 'no
worries, I got you guys'. It's good to have people in high places.
The
dumb questions we get from other missionaries are getting fewer, but
they still come in. It's always nice when you have an elder tell you
that you did not, in fact, refund him for the last time he bought gas
for his stove, when we can look at bank transactions and tell him that,
as a matter of fact, it did, but he still won't believe you. Sometimes
little rants are needed, like that one :)
Love y'all!
Elder Massey
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