I feel like this week has been a successful one. Nothing stands out to me when I think of why it was successful. I guess it feels like we put in a good effort this week.
We met a referral named Dona who is living in an assisted living home. She is only in her 50s but she can't take care of herself very well so her children put her in this home. We have met with her twice now and she is open to learning more. Her daughter was just baptized into the Mesa Vista ward a few months ago and now wants us to teach her mom. We are excited for the idea that this could be an eternal family soon! We will be visiting her this week on Wednesday and we will be teaching the Plan of Salvation.
We have also started to teach a part-member family. They are a very young couple (so young that while we are teaching them I am the oldest in the room) with a baby. The father Matt has been less-active for about a year now and his wife is Catholic. They are very quiet but she said that she is willing to learn more about the Book of Mormon and wants to know what what it teaches. We are praying and working with the Elders Quorum President to find out who would be best to fellowship them and help them progress. We don't have another meeting until next week but we pray for this family every day and are working hard to reactivate them and strengthen their family through the Gospel.
Vicky has been doing ok. She has expressed to a member that she doesn't feel comfortable in Relief Society so that is why she doesn't want to stay for the whole three hours. We will have to pray to know how to make her more comfortable there. This is hard for me because Relief Society is my favorite class of the three hours, so I don't understand how someone couldn't like it. On the other hand Sister Hiapo isn't a huge fan of Relief Society so maybe she will be able to connect with her better on that aspect. Other than that, she has been reading and praying to know if this is the true church. We will be seeing her tonight hopefully to teach her more.
On Wednesday we went and taught a less-active man named Jason. I have talked about him before. We taught the Restoration and watched the Restoration DVD with him. The bishop came and invited him to try coming to church again. He said he would pray about it and consider it. We invited him to take the missionary lessons again with his family on a regular basis. He told us that he would be ok with it, but needed to check with his wife to see if she was ok with that. She is a Seventh Day Adventist and is pretty firm in her beliefs. That has worried me in the past just because I don't want her to feel like we are trying to separate their family by making Jason come back to church. However, after Elder Nelson came and talked about the perspective elders, I had the distinct impression that we needed to start teaching his family regularly. We will have to stop by this week and ask him if he has talked to his wife about it.
Brett is doing really well! We invited him to be baptized on June 7th. The spirit was there but Brett wants to make sure that when he commits he can live by the standards. We then did some How To Begin Teaching with him and talked about his reservations. We committed him to pray to know if this was the true church and if the Book of Mormon was true. He really wants to know the truth and I know he will get his answer soon.
Last night we had a lesson with a Less-active named Brita. We love her and her family. She is living with her boyfriend Freddy and her son Leo. Freddy wants to be baptized and Brita wants to be active again. She called us frantically last week telling us that her son, who is 7, came home and told her that he doesn't believe there is a god and that churches are only there to take our money. She told us that this upset her a lot and that she wanted us to come teach her son. Unfortunately her son wasn't home last night when we went, but we were able to teach Freddy. He said he loved the mormons and wants to know if the Book of Mormon was true. We have an appointment for next Sunday again and we are hoping that Leo will be there this time as well. Brita expressed some concerns that she has but committed to come to Sacrament meeting on Sunday. We will see if she is able to follow through with this commitment.
So the title.....we were out tracting and we stopped and talked to this evangelist who has talked to LDS missionaries before. He didn't let us talk much because he was in a hurry but he asked if he could pray for us. That is one of the things he prayed for haha!
Yesterday church was exhausting. We had Sacrament Meeting and Jason came! Jason is the one we tried to teach a little while ago but it didn't work out. So he came yesterday! Then he told us about some trouble he has been having and that he wants to overcome an addiction. We introduced him to an AWESOME member who has totally been there. He was on the front cover of the news paper he was a druggy and did almost everything that druggies do. He was looking at 10 years in prison and at that point something changed in him. He was able to turn his life around and now he is sealed to his wife with 4 kids and a baby on the way. Love stories like that! Anyway so he started talking to Jason and it lasted the entire two hours that was left. He was straight forward and told Jason exactly what he needed to do. While we were talking he said something that I thought was funny. He said "you are pole-vaulting over mouse turds. You are making a huge deal out of something little." So yeah after we all talked I was drained. Its hard talking to people when they want to change but at the same time don't want to do anything different than they are now. It's like yelling at a wall. Pointless.
Anyway, things are going well out here! The stress of training is lessening. I miss you all!
Love
Sister Skeeter
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