News from my end. Umm..some good stuff..some not so good stuff.
We
will start with the not so good. Well first off, this week hasn't been
the greatest. But we have made a lot of plans to pick up our work, and
increase our investigator pool. We have just decided that we need to be
working harder. And don't worry, we won't work ourselves crazy. Just a
little bit harder. It's a good thing.
Next
not so good thing. We didn't end up baptising Dmitiri. We decided that
his baptism needed to be pushed back a month. He was honestly okay with
all of it, and seemed a little bit relieved. There has been some
contention with he and his mom lately. Just mostly the fear that they
are both slipping back into their old habits. But we had a good lesson,
where they were able to open up to each other. They didn't necessarily
get anything resolved, but they at least got some stuff out in the open.
We encouraged them to have family prayer. Put any feelings or
differences aside from at that moment and pray for help in their
relationship and understanding and trust. I think that will be one of
the biggest things that will help them this week. We also will be
teaching them how to have a family home evening today. So that will be
good.
Let's
see. What else happened. On Tuesday, we visit a lot of single sisters,
and we can't see them without another male member. We have tried the
past two weeks to go with the bishop's son, but he has been like hours
late. The first time, we ended up taking the Bishop, but this past week
we took the Bishops son. But he was still an hour late, so we missed one
appointment. But, what can you do. Anyway. We had just dropped him off
and we get this phone call from a lady named Monica. We visited her the
week before, and she was nice. But definitely has a smoking and drinking
problem. Anyway, she just kept calling us and telling us that we needed
to hurry to her house. We got there, she was completely plastered. And
she is already awkward with us when she is sober. But anyway. Her
husband was trying to leave and she was trying to get us to make him
stay, and she called the security company to have them come. Anyway,
just a super awkward and uncomfortable situation. She made us dinner and
really wanted us to stay there with her. Alone. Yeah, perfect. Just
what we need, two young guys, with a drunk woman that just wants to
flirt! Haha, anyway, we got out of it. She just gave us the food to
take. Just an all over uncomfortable situation. Haha! Funny though.
Next.
Let's see. It was Sister Shirene's birthday on Friday. She is the ward
mission leader's wife. We love them. anyway, she has talked about liking
McDonalds sundaes. So we went and got her one, and they just gave us a
cup of ice cream! Haha, of Africa. Anyway, we gave it to her. A little
disappointing present! Haha, it has just been a joke to go get a "plain
sundae" from McDonalds now!
Also,
our flat just keeps getting better and better! Haha, not! So you know
how there is no door handle? Yeah, the door just completely decided to
stop working this last Saturday night. It is stuck shut! So we have to
climb out our window! Luckily there is a window big enough that we can
fit out of! Haha! It is a tight fit, but it's all we can do! Just
imagine two elders climbing out of their window in their suits to get to
church on time! Haha!
Church.
I gave a talk. Based on President Packer's talk from the last general
conference about "The Key to Spiritual Protection". It went fairly well I
think. Lots of people told me I did good. But you never know if they
are telling the truth, or if they are just saying that because they feel
obligated to say something nice. But we will just go with the first
idea, that they actually enjoyed the talk! Haha!
Sunday
we also went to this family named the Van Royens. They are nice. They
have three kids. All very severely ADD. Haha! Anyway, one of us
distracts the kids while one will teach. They climb all over us, poke
us, play with our hair, and try to make us throw them up and catch them!
They are fun, but the family is pretty poor, and is lacking in hygiene.
Basically, a lot of people here do. But we leave their house literally
dirty from the kids playing with us! Oh well!
Teaching
swim lessons was definitely a good help. I love kids, and there is one
family that we are going to start to teach that has a little boy, he is
at the ward mission leader's house all the time. Anyway, he loves me
now. So that will honestly be a big help! I am super excited to teach
this family though. We gave the wife a blessing a week ago. She just had
a baby and she was really sick. She was supposed to be in the hospital
for like another week and a half, and over her birthday, which she was
worried about. Anyway, we have her a blessing, and she ended up getting
out a week and a half early and in time for her birthday! Her husband
now acts really excited to see us! So that is super cool!
Some
more bad hygiene. We helped a family move last Saturday morning.
Completely lacking in personal hygiene, and their home is disgusting. It
smelled like a combination of old mean, wet dog, cat spray, and poop.
And basically it smelled like that for a reason. They moved the fridge,
and they had literally just been pushing dog poop under the fridge! The
house and their stuff was so gross! Luckily Elder Wilkinson's grandma
had sent him some work gloves, so he had a pair I could borrow.
Definitely a blessing! It was definitely a gross experience, and I am
glad it was over. Don't get me wrong, I was very happy to help, and very
glad for the service opportunity, but it was still quite the
experience!
It
is great to hear from everyone! I love you all so much! I miss everyone
like crazy and pray for you all the time! I look forward to next week
when I get to hear from everyone again!
Love you all like crazy!
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