Why hello family!
I'm sure glad we didn't try to email earlier; I probably would have missed hearing from you at all! So good thing I waited :)
Well. I wish I had some amazing news for this week but I don't. We now have no investigators! How fantastic is that?? O.o We had 4, but one got baptized Saturday and the other 3 (a family) dropped us right before the baptism. Robert, the dad/husband, said he couldn't accept the Book of Mormon because he was a "Bible guy." I was afraid he would prevent the rest of the family from progressing and lo and behold, I was right. The kids were all golden and the mom was really open too. We're pretty bummed about it but we set higher goals on finding for this week; goals higher than any I've ever set, let alone achieved before. Miracles will come even if I don't see them with my own eyes.
Lisa's baptism went well and the spirit was strong but there weren't nearly as many non members as I thought. Mostly just family that isn't interested in learning more but hopefully now has a seed planted. She asked me to be a witness which surprised me with all the other friends that were there but she insisted. So that was pretty neat.
Also kind of on a more positive note, we finally found some less actives that not only still live at the address the church has for them but are also open to visit with us. So, we're following up with them this week and will hopefully get some good opportunities to invite the spirit back into their lives. The ward council has gathered some names of other struggling famlies and we should also be contacting them while with the quorum/auxiliary leaders sometime this week hopefully.
It's interesting how often the work has come to almost a dead stop in each of my areas. Well. Not the work itself, for the work never stops. But the teaching pool tends to go through droughts so to speak. haha
We got a media referral on Wednesday that we were pretty excited about. But we went all the way there only to find the address doesn't exist. He hasn't answered or returned our calls either. Haha. I wonder what the story behind it is.
The family we were having dinner with Saturday took us out to eat and I ran into Steve and Lindsey Sexton there! That was super fun. I had dinner with them when I went back to Wrightwood for that one day back in December. So that was definitely neat.
A weird thing I realized is that I have less than 10 months remaining on my mission. Like 9.8 or something. Crazy. Also, transfers are next week. Doesn't seem like it's been quite that long yet.
So Ryan is still finding new things in my room huh? Man. Guess I really am a pack rat. Haha. Gotta wait a couple more years before I'll let you use my cologne/body spray bud ;) haha
Anyways. We'll keep trekking. Trekking, tracting, walking, biking, slaving... haha :) hopefully we can bring a greater awareness of the savior and His life to those we contact this week.
Love,
Elder Nelson Browning
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