Letter #22

Okay, so I promised I would work on making these longer again, so here I go.

 

This last week, our zone made a goal to contact 2000 people during the week, so we kept track of every person that we invited/talked to/whatever, and we made our goal.  So that was pretty cool.  And we got 20 new investigators from it, which is like half of what our mission president wanted us to get this week.  But it is what it is.  President has been on a numbers kick lately, which the zone leaders say doesn't usually last for that long.  We've been doing more hours of finding, and finding less people the last week or two, so that's been not much fun.  And the other Elders in our ward area always across the street getting a ton of new people while we're getting cussed off of porches.  So yeah, it's whatever.

Saturday was pretty great, because we had a baptism in the morning.  Sallynda got baptized in the morning (along with Nathan, who the other Elders taught), and so that was pretty great.  We had an awesome turnout, and Derek did the baptizing, and they got confirmed in sacrament meeting the next day, so that was really cool.  After the baptism, we followed up with a referral named Francis, and he ended up being a really solid investigator.  He even has a stable job and a home, so that right there makes him the most stable investigator that's ever been referred to me.  He is Belgian, and has an adorable European accent and speaks like 5 languages, and found out about the church through coworkers who enthusiastically sent us over.  And then he came to church, and Elders Quorum expounded upon doctrines that we weren't ready to teach him yet.... So, we're not going back to him until Saturday, so that'll be pretty exciting to see his reaction to some of that stuff.

Also on Saturday was Eddie's birthday (he's the investigator that called Dad home on Father's day).  He turned 30, so we went over and wished him a happy one.  And then we went tracting, and had dinner with 4 sex offenders.  It was one of those things that you didn't really think about until after the fact, and then you just laugh about it.  It was 4 missionaries in shirts and ties, and then 4 sex offenders, grilling hamburgers and swapping life stories (we all deal with interesting people).

And that's all I can think of this week.  Hopefully that's a better letter than the last couple of weeks.  I love you all and miss you!  Talk to you later