I'm not even sure where to start on this past week. We had another successful week, but to be quite honest I didn't have a very good time for a lot of it. This week I had four flat tires, all of which put me in a bit of a bad mood. I think that is one of my weaknesses, I am easily frustrated, and when in such a state I easily forget what I should be doing, and the Spirit leaves.
Anyways, on Monday we were able to go to a part-member family with members from the same apartment complex. Although the lesson didn't go through the members were able to establish a friendship. They invited them over for a dinner, and to go hunting with them. It was neat to see our member reaching out to help us in our work. We had dinner with another part-member family that night, the dinner was good, but we weren't able to have a lesson afterwards.
Tuesday we had our Zone Meeting. We talked about using members. I have come to realize that we don't fully utalize members like we should. We should have more experiences like we had on Monday, where our members become friends with our investigators. Instead we just use them to get into a home when we need another male. Too often that is the attitude we take. Also we should take a few minutes before to tell them why we wanted them specifically to be there, what we are teaching, and what we want them to do. As we work more with members they will start to truly care about the investigators like we do, and they will want to see them progress as we do. They will also become more excited about doing their own missionary work, so they can be involved in the work even more. Members are a resource that are overlooked, or underutalized. We are going to focus on improving there. That night we were also able to see TD. We read through Alma 36, and had a wonderful talk about repentance. We also shared with her the importance of scripture study everyday, and frequent prayer. She again made mention of her desire to be baptized, but she is still not ready to do so. We are still working on getting her to quite smoking. Pray for us, and her.
Wednesday started with some tracting, and a lesson with a less-active member. He has a non-member wife, but we have been unable to teach her as yet. We taught him about the Plan of Salvation, and what it means to have an eternal family. The spirit was there, and he was able to come to church Sunday with his son. We did some more tracting after lunch, followed by another visit with a less-active member. We talked with her about repentance also, I fell it was a message I needed to hear a little too. That night on our way to the EQ presidency meeting I got my first flat. I ran about a half mile from the road on the trail to Brother H house, so we could make it on time, we were late, but they hadn't started, so we were sort of on time. We got a ride home afterwards, and I fixed my tire.
Thursday we were able to do some service for the Relief Society, in helping them set up for their Gratitude Dinner. We had a lesson with B and C. We taught them about the Word of Wisdom, Chris has shown a lot of improvement recently. We saw him on Sunday, and he told us that it had been two days since he had smoked. That night, as were heading home after a visit with members we get to our bikes to discover that I have another flat tire. We got a ride home again, and I fixed another hole.
Friday we were able to help a non-member move. He was living in the Rock Creek Retirement Center, and we met him after one of our lessons there a couple weeks ago. He didn't pack, so the move went slow, but we got it done, and he is now in his new home. That night we stopped by some of the "unknown" members in the Springville ward, and we were able to see several of them. We have an appointment with one of them on Wednesday.
Saturday we had another move, this one with a less-active member, they moved to the next ward over to Orenco, the missionaries there helped move them in. We were able to meet with a part-member family that afternoon, and we talked with them about the Atonement. That is something that brings the Spirit no matter what. We were also able to contact a referral we had recieved from mormon.org earlier that week. We gave him the Bible he wanted, as well as a Book of Mormon, we taught him about prophets, and what the Book of Mormon is. He didn't seem super interested, but he said he would call us if he had any questions. We tracted around his apartment before we left.
Sunday was a great day. As I partook of the Sacrament I really felt renewed, and forgiven. It was a beautiful feeling. That night we were able to meet with a couple active member families, and set up an appoinment with J S, her health has been poor, but she is feeling better, and wants to have us back. We finished the night with our coordination meeting.
Monday, the library was closed, so we couldn't email. We got together as a district, with some members and ivestigators and played football in the wet, muddy field. If you didn't have cleats you were slidding all over the place. It was a lot of fun. When we got home I had another flat. We had to get picked up for dinner, because I wasn't able to fix it in time. We walked to our other planned people afterwards, and the night seemed to go by slow.
This morning when we were heading in for lunch I got another flat, and we had to take an extra 30 minutes to walk home.
Apart from the flats though it has been a fairly good week. We are working hard, and being obedient, and blessings are coming, even if they are masked by flat tires.
Love Elder Schultz
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