So first of all, I'm sorry I'm a little late with this, there were tons of people at the library when we first showed up, so we did some shopping first.Also, of course it rained on the last day of school, I'm pretty sure that happened a couple of years ago too. Fun!
I'm a little bit weirded out that I'm turning 19, as well. Now I'm a real missionary :).
In any case, we had a pretty great week this week! It's pretty great serving with my new companion here-- it's true, we do have some things in common. Kind of a lot, which is cool. That definitely means we have more to talk about, which can sometimes be a problem, like during companionship study :).
But it's great! I think a side effect of me and and my past companion being together for so long was that we maybe fell into some habits that weren't the most productive. We weren't doing anything that was bad, but we maybe did some things that were just "how we did things", that maybe weren't as productive and effective as we could be. So having a whole new companion gives a bit of an opportunity to start over, come up with new ideas and work hard.
We seem to be getting along pretty dang well, which is pretty great. I've never had a companion that I didn't like serving with, but it's nice when you have a lot to talk about in down time and stuff.
Some cool highlights from this week:
-We had Stake Conference, which was pretty great. We went to the adult (actually they made it 12 and older) session on Saturday night, and then the general session Sunday Morning, which was pretty cool. They had the missionaries doing the translating mostly, so my companion did some of that, although I wasn't confident in my language skills to do on-the-fly translation. Next time! Also, our mission president came and spoke at the Saturday evening one, I think that was his last Stake Conference!-Our top progressing investigator came to Stake Conference! He showed up like an hour late, but he was there, which was super exciting! He had said he would be coming, even though it was stake conference, and it would be a half-hour drive, crazy. But 10:00 rolled around, and there was no sign of him, so we kind of gave up. But then at like 10:30, half an hour into stake conference, we got a text saying that he was on the way! And he showed up for like the last half of the meeting, which was really awesome. He's super committed, I'm really excited for him. He still has the problem where he can't come to sacrament meeting, but we talked about it with him, and he has some ideas for fixing that, and so do we. He really has the desire to come to Christ. I can see him being baptized really soon, which is just awesome.
-We contacted this referral we got from a member who's at like BYU right now. We were supposed to go for the tracting approach, and when we did, she basically asked us if we were from the church, and told us that she wanted to be baptized. If we didn't already know that from the text, I think that would have been the craziest door ever to knock. We're going to be back! Apparently her husband is less than enthusiastic about the church, but we'll help him with that :).
-So we contacted this former investigator last like Thursday, and set up an appointment. We've contacted her before, and she's bailed, which is sad. But this time, she totally kept her appointment, so we taught her, and she really seemed to get it! She said she really wanted to read the Book of Mormon, and that if she found out it was true, she'd be baptized. So that was pretty great! She even said the closing prayer, which like is very rare for investigators to do, at least in my experience.
So basically we had a great week. I'm glad you're all doing great, and I hope you have a great week!
Love,
Peter
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