What do I do all day and not have to tract? Well lately we’ve been keeping ourselves extremely busy with working with less-active members and recent converts or with members who want to be member missionaries. We had about 14 lessons with that category over the last week. We also try to keep our investigators busy. Work with part-member families, contact referrals received from the media advertisements etc. but as far as finding is concerned we usually rely on what investigators we get from the members or while visiting the members and a lot of street contacting. We have been trying to squeeze some tracting into the mix too but the best time to do that is in the evenings and that’s also the best time to contact everyone else we need to contact too. In this area we have not only the ability but the necessity to pull out all the stops and use every resource available.
This week was a pretty good week. We’re making headway with Stacy I think. He’s a tough cookie to crack but we may have found a few things to help him move in a positive direction. Randy got rid of his tongue ring this week and I think he'll be ready to go for his interview this weekend before general conference. Also Ella was able to change her work schedule and so they were able to come to church this Sunday! we picked up a former investigator named Earlean and we’ve been working with her a lot and she’s really progressing well, there were some trials in her way this Sunday that prevented her from coming to church but I think shell come next week. In the mean time were trying our best to help her stop smoking. I think that’s about it for now.
My biggest experiences with the Book of Mormon in my life have taken place mostly here in my mission. I kinda wish I had paid more attention to it before. In my patriarchal blessing it talks about how important the Book of Mormon will be to me and to those who I bear testimony of it to. As I’ve begun this again I’ve already seen that. I’ve been trying to challenge people left and right to read it quickly. And as we've read with people I’ve seen the difference. Like with Stacy…we were reading Alma 40 with him yesterday and as we read the sprit world began to make more and more sense to him and the concerns he had before were resolved.
This week was a pretty good week. I just hate how every week we have the car it seems like it just zooms by before we can get everything we need done and then the other weeks feel like they drag a little bit more. This weeks already gone and a new transfer is a ready well on its way to be closed. That’s how it feels to me anyway. This mission experience has been an interesting one. I can’t believe how fast 2 years can go by. I was thinking about how little time I really have left. It was strange. Did you feel the same way about your mission?
Lastly, I’d like to note that if there’s one thing I’m certainly gained a testimony of on my mission is that single sisters (all sisters really) can accomplish an incomprehensible amount of good.
Period.
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