May 23, 2011

Hello Everyone!!!

Alllllllright!!

This week has been a week of work work work! We had a lot of lessons planned for this week but every single one fell through. However, we kept positive and we actually found a lot of new investigators and we taught a lot of new people! This Sunday our investigator Andrew was confirmed in sacrament meeting!! i had the opportunity of confirming him, it was a very neat experience! He said that his mind is set and he is going to go on a mission! It will be a year from now because he has to wait a year, but he is already reading Preach My Gospel and is preparing for a mission! i do not think there is anything that has given me greater joy on my mission than to see a convert with this strong of a testimony and such a huge desire to serve a mission himself! It just makes me smile :). In the area I work in it is the Young Single Adult ward, so that means we usually only find and contact people at the apartments where young people are. Since I have been here there are only about 5 places we ever go, so I have knocked on about every door 3 times now, and everyone, member and non-member knows me by name haha. But this week we found a new apartment complex with a lot of singles!!!!!! We have already found a few investigators there! We are teaching one now named Chad and he seemed like the most unlikely person we would ever teach but he has turned out to be one the most honest and desirous investigators we have at the moment. I have definitely learned on a mission you CANNOT judge a book by its cover. The Gospel is for everyone and I fully intend and do give everyone a chance to hear the Gospel. I think this week has also been a record for the number of Anti-Mormons we have come into contact with. it just makes me sad to see, how out of their way one will go to say bad things about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. However on one specific occasion we had a neat experience with one Anti-Mormon in particular, it was after we had already ran into quite a few of them so I was trying to think of new ways to talk with them. The man told us we were a cult and that we believe all sorts of weird things, but as he continued to talk I remembered about a book that was given to my family not too long ago from a member of our ward, i think it was the Loveland family. They gave us a Green Eggs and Ham book by Dr. Seuss, except they had replaced Green Eggs and Ham with 'The Book of Mormon' and changed a few sentences of it. ANYWAY, I remembered that book, and I asked the man two questions. I said "Have you ever read the Book of Mormon?" He said "No", then I said "Have you ever one to our church to see what our services our like?" he said "No"...Then I said "hmmm, well it seems like you have Green Eggs and Ham syndrome", he looked at me kind of confused but I explained and told him how he says that our church is a cult and that we believe in all sorts of things (I don't know how he came up with some...they were pretty out there), but i told him how he has never read the Book of Mormon and he has never gone to our church, I related how he is like the man in Green Eggs and Ham that said he didn't like it because he refused to try it. The whole analogy left him speechless and i invited him to come to church and read the Book of Mormon and then we left ;). I thought it was pretty cool haha. But anyway, this week has been great and it only seems to get better and better every week! I love it. I love you all and hope everything is going well! Write me! Until next week!