March 10th, 2014
Hey hey! Another week
gone by, crazy crazy. I hope everyone's
week was as good as mines was!
So lets see, what
happened this week. Well, we started off the week real strong, we taught the
restoration to S & J last Monday, and man did it go well. We're super
excited to be teaching them, and we're tentatively planning their baptism for
the 22nd of March, which we're super
excited about! But it was also a lot of
fun; we taught the restoration using a jenga set. I'm sure you could all figure out how it
worked; we likened the standing Jenga tower to the church that Christ
established, and over time when the apostles and prophets were killed and the
priesthood was taken from the earth, the church crumbled. When it crumbled,
everyone took all the parts of the church (the blocks) and built their own
towers. Technically, the church was still there; it was just divided among many
different churches. All the doctrine was still there, but it was scattered. Then
we likened the restoration to building the tower again. It was fun. I got to
play jenga with some kids, and in the mean time I taught the gospel. It doesn't get much better than that!
haha.
Wednesday, we taught
the their family again, actually. We taught them about the plan of salvation. Although
“S” received it very well, and so did his mom and brothers, we didn't feel we
did as good as we could have in teaching the lesson. There were distraction,
which to us felt like it was inhibiting the spirit. We weren't very happy with
how it went. However, we met “S” (he's 15) at mutual to introduce him to the
young men, and he was SUPER stoked about the lesson. He loved it! It just
strengthened my testimony that the spirit can speak to you no matter the
circumstances. The spirit has no language barrier and can touch people, even
among many distractions. It was very cool.
Then, we went to
mutual with “S” to get him some good fellowship there, and it was great. We played jeopardy with the young men, then
afterwards we played some basketball with them. it was me and elder wride
versus 3 YM. We stomped em. Well, not really.
We beat them by one point. I was sweating so bad, and my shirt got
untucked, and my feet were just about to blister, which is embarrassing because
they're all like 14 and 15, and i'm 19, but no matter! I still won. That's all that matters.
hahaha. It was a ton of fun though. “S”
loved it. He can't wait to go next week,
we're super stoked!
Other than those two
lessons, we had very little success (that I can see at this moment) the rest of
the week. We're working really hard to find new investigators, so we knocked a
lot of doors, tried to meet with a lot of potentials, and tried to meet a lot
of less actives. We may have gotten in two doors from thursday-sunday, other
than dinners. And, those were our bike
days, and it was raining a LOT this weekend haha.
it was fun though. It
got to the point where we were so stoked that we were just trying to ride
through the biggest puddles we could and splash each other. The way I see it is we could be bummed about
not getting in many doors and not teaching much, but it's kind of like
life...things aren't always going to be prime and perfect, and we're all going
to have challenges (side note, i almost typed desafios, that means challenge in
spanish ahha). But you have two choices when you have those challenges, you can
either get all upset and depressed, or you can make the best of it. Hence, the
puddle water splashing. You gotta have
fun on a mission. If you aren't having fun,
you aren't doing it right. That's the way I see it. I’m probably wrong, as I
don't know much about being a missionary yet haha. It's good to be humbled at times though. It's
good to realize I'm not this super missionary that can talk my way into any
door I want. When you're humbled, you then become teachable and moldable so you
can become better. So, all in all, those days were way good. We learned a lot,
and we learned that we need to find a new way to find investigators. So,
although we didn't see the immediate success from those days, we may have
planted some seeds, and we definitely learned, which is going to lead to more
success down the road!
Last little note. We
knocked on a door of a less active member.
She let us right in, and we soon found out she spoke ONLY SPANISH. You have to understand, this was my first time
ever being in a house or trying to teach a lesson that was solomente en
espanol. It was super frustrating haha.
Elder Wride killed it, and I understood about 90 percent of the vocabulary she
was throwing out there. I was getting
main ideas, but i'm still just not used to how natives speak. I can understand
when white people speak Spanish fluently, but when natives speak, it’s tough. They
talk faster and slur and use slang, and although I can understand most of the
words by themselves, when they put them all together it's hard for me to
understand. But it's okay, I still talked to her a bit and it was a nice visit.
Very short, but that's okay. It was another learning moment – I learned I need
to study Spanish harder! haha. it was fun though. Definitely interesting!
Well I think that's
all for me this week. I hope you all are doing well! Love you all like crazy,
have a great week!
Love,
Elder Snow
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