Sounds
like you guys are keeping busy in Indiana. It is kind of weird to hear
that grandma's selling the house. It seems like it will probably be for
the best though.
Anyway, this week was fantastic.
My
companion and I got to go do a little bit of yard work for an old lady
nearby. While we were talking to her we learned that she was from Iran
and that she had been living there in the 1970's. So she was super cool
and had some cool stories. She made us some Persian food for lunch which
was also really good.
On
Wednesday every one of our appointments fell through. Which was a bit
challenging but it was alright. That day was less fun. However on
Thursday we tried stopping by Herick's apartment again and he was there.
So that was super duper awesome. Apparently he had been really busy
with immigration lawyers and whatnot but we got to talk to him and start
teaching him again. He's really cool. He had actually referred himself
after he had just decided to go to the temple visitors center one day.
He had watched the restoration video there and filled out a form online
to have missionaries come see him. So he's awesome. So he has a
baptismal date for two Saturdays from now.
On
Thursday we had also been walking down the street after another one of
our appointments fell through and we saw an old lady that was trying to
sweep out the door. We offered to help her. She's from Louisiana and has
kind of a southern christian demeanor to her. When we offered to help
her she had said "thank you Jesus". We had started talking to her and
she said that she had had surgery recently and that she had been praying
for someone to help her. She was happy to sit down and talk with us for
a while. We had taught her about the restoration. She seemed to really
like it. She told us that she had recently left her old church and was
looking for another church to join. She was super awesome.
Unfortunately, we're not going to get to teach her though. She doesn't
speak Spanish so we referred the English Elders to her. I'm excited for
her though.
We
finally got to confirm Juana. She had been baptized about a month ago
by the elders before us but she didn't go to church the next day so she
hadn't been confirmed. Everyone was kind of getting on us to find her
and confirm her. The Bishop and Mission President had just told us to
confirm her in her house if we found her. But it was good, we got to sit
down and have a conversation about the holy ghost with her and then
confirmed her.
Saturday
night we got a call that My companion and I were going to be giving
talks in church Sunday morning. Fifteen minutes each... Spanish. So that
was fun. It really wasn't that bad. I was able to pretty much say what I
wanted to say. I took up all the time I needed to as well. It seems
like Latinos really like to see people try to learn Spanish. Sacrament
meeting was kind of busy both giving a talk and playing the piano but it
was fun.
We
had an appointment with a less active member and his non member wife
this morning. We went to go teach them and they both seemed really
excited about the gospel and the wife seemed really enthusiastic about
wanting to come to church. She was also happy to see that I was trying
to learn Spanish.
Spanish
is coming along much easier. I can pretty much say whatever I need to
say. I just need to figure out subjunctives and learn more vocabulary.
Anyways, I'm happy, hope you guys have a great week.
Love,
Elder Jones
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