September 24, 2012

Hello there!

Well lets see, this week has been great. We have been riding our bikes a lot and I love it. We get to talk to more people when we are on bikes instead of cars, so it is good for the work too. Not to mention the air is getting cooler....love it!

We had our first interviews with President Howes and had a full day of training afterwards. I learned a lot, like we need to work a lot harder. Our mission president has challenged us to baptize every week....right now that seems like a far off goal. BUT, we are trying to find more people and trying to plan better. With time we should make it. I am excited to reach that goal.

So one of the nights this week we had dinner at the house of an older couple, they have been married for about 5 years. It was probably the most interesting experience of my life. He was baptized when he was 41 years old, and since then he has had vision after vision and crazy crazy things happen in his life. We found ourselves sitting and listening for an hour and a half about all sorts of false doctrine.....hahaha, it was so crazy! To say the least, I am very grateful for the simple truths of the gospel and how we have a prophet that guides our church and he will never lead us astray:)

We also got a referral from someone in our english ward and went over to meet the people right after our lovely dinner. The member that told us about them said that the dad had just left the family and they were not very active in their church that they attended.....boy was he wrong. The family is so sweet! They let us come in and get to know them and they started asking about how our church got started. We got to the part about the great apostasy and how the people rejected the gospel and shared a few scriptures about the apostasy....and they were could not see how the bible talked about it at all. One of the daughters started Bible bashing and we couldn't get through to any of them because their hearts were so closed off to everything. Moral of the story....as missionaries we really need to focus on finding people that are receptive to the gospel. We can talk to and preach to any one....but we have to seek the ones that will be receptive to the spirit and to the message :)

Well general conference is coming up on the 6th and 7th, fun fun fun! We have a baptism for a little boy named Hector on that sunday after conference, so we are super excited. He is soooo good!

One fun little thing we did one night was go scorpion hunting. FREAKY! So when it is dark out, if you get a black light and go walk around outside, and when you find a scorpion it is a bright green color and stick out so good! It was pretty sweet....in a creepy crawly way :)