This week was supposed to be super
awesome with a bunch of lessons and great stuff, but unfortunately
missionary work doesn't always go perfectly as planned. But that is okay
because I am not mad at all! Life would be incredibly boring and
worthless if everything went according to plan.
Our member for A cancelled and so we couldn't go
in to teach him a lesson, but we followed up and gave him some things to
read for this week. He is still so great. We plan on giving him a date
for baptism tonight :) Only the Lord knows if he is prepared.
Al also cancelled and can't meet until the first
week of February, L (a potential) had to cancel, Le (another
potential) cancelled. Members cancelled or forgot we were coming and
there were not a lot of people home when we passed! But it was still a
great week. We were able to pass a couple members that were home and
they were grateful. And we got to contact a lot. Let me tell you...
contacting was quite the experience this week. First this one kid
wanted to party with us and we're like, we are missionaries. Then
this other guy I met wanted my number to ask me out and you know how I
have trouble saying no because I feel bad? Well after telling him
multiple times I'm a missionary (he apparently didn't understand that
part... yeah right) I gave him our card and when he called He finally
understood that we only talk about Jesus and His restored gospel :) Then
we met Uncle Jack from Jersey and Texas and like a million other
places. I haven't heard someone swear like him in a long time! But he
told us to be careful :) Funny guy.
We visited our normal less actives and one seems to
be making progress but we don't know what to do about the other. When we
were going over the resurrection and kingdoms of glory, she stopped us
and explained how we shouldn't talk about such a happy paradise after
this life because unstable people will commit suicide trying to get
there..... I love the less actives :)
We are starting to work with a new family whose
situation is a bit complicated, we meet with them for the first time
this week, and we are very excited to get to know them. We passed by and
brought them a little treat and the kids already love us :) boom.
Our lesson with T took a complete 180° turn from
last week. Our member is a bit crazy sometimes, but she was the only
woman we could find. He was going off and off on why we don't use the exact
name of God, which they believe is Jehovah and all these things that
really aren't important. The spirit was not there. It was out of control
and we didn't know what to do. Finally we just said have you prayed
specifically about the Book of Mormon. NO. (of course not because if you
did you'd be a lot more teachable! duh) So we said you must do that in
order to know. Because if that Book is true everything we are telling
you is true. We were able to bring the spirit back. I told him we want
him to feel the spirit and that I didn't feel it at all. He is so
intellectually based. It's infuriating! People. If you knew the answers
to everything you wouldn't have faith. Duh. So we don't know. We'll
teach him at least one more time.
On the other hand, S was taught this week up
in Angouleme by the sisters there. That's his real home. And then at
church he was taught by the other sisters in Talence ward. We do this
thing where other missionaries teach the investigator for baptism,
because we are all in this together! He is solid. He asked me at church
if I would give a talk on the Holy Ghost at his baptism and he asked
his best friend M who just got the priesthood last Sunday to baptize
him. WE ARE SO EXCITED. We love him so much. I think I'll cry the day it
happens.
That's about it :) It's been raining non stop for
like the past five days. BOO. I like looking at the rain, not being
under it for 16 hours a day....
I love you all so much and I pray for you each individually. The Gospel is true.
Love, Soeur Roberts
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