This week was a great finish to the transfer. I left my planner at the apartment, so you won't get as many details, but a few of the highlights that I do remember are these.
Wednesday, we had a lesson with W Manula, who dropped us. She said that she felt that this wasn't right for her. We taught her about recognizing the Spirit, and about the importance of the Book of Mormon, and Moroni's promise. We bore testimony, and committed her to read the entire Book of Mormon, and pray about it everytime she read, paying attention to the Spirit. She said that she would, and that she would call us if she wanted to learn more. It was sad to be dropped by her when she hasn't put forth very much effort into finding out, but I felt good about the way the lesson went.
We tried to set up another appoinment with Tom Handy, and he said "no thank you". Dropped as well, also disappointing, because he also hasn't put forth much effort.
In our lesson with D Rubenstein he again brought up mormonsandgays.org, and said that that was why he didn't feel comfortable in coming to church. We told him that he would not lose his friends, if he joined, but he seemed unsure. Our stake is having a same gender attraction fireside this weekend, and we are planning to invite him to that. He is still reading, but he hasn't really prayed about the Book of Mormon, and he doesn't want to come to church. We stressed the importance of the Book of Mormon in our lesson. He promised us that he would pray about it.
Saturday we were doing some tracting, and a man named Kimi let us into his house to talk with him. He is Jewish, and he had studied lots of religions, but hasn't read all of the Book of Mormon, and said that he would be willing to do so, we have a return appointment set up for Wednesday to go back and teach him.
Sunday after church we also did some tracting, and one house we knocked on when the man opened his door, Elder Lott complimented him on his motorcycle. We were able to talk with him a little about it, and then we tied it in to the Gospel, and how the way to know if this is true is through the Spirit, which, though hard to describe, is easy to recognize once you've felt it. We compared that feeling to the feeling of adrenaline you get when riding a motorcycle. He said that he had prayed about this before, but had never read the Book of Mormon. he was willing to read, and to let us come back and teach, we have a lesson set up for this Thursday. It was a neat experience.
I was a little surpised, but definetly glad to hear that Elder Lott and I are staying together as companions for one more transfer. I love serving with him, he is constantly helping me to do a little better. My desire to serve has been increasing, and our work is going well. We have a goal to get a baptism this transfer, and we know that we can do it, and are willing to get out and work to make it happen. I know that as we do so that our Heavenly Father will reward us for our efforts.
We had a lot of people in the district get transferrred, and we had a new area open up, and I am excited to get to know all of the new faces in the district, and there is a lot of them. All together in our district we have 18, including the zone leaders. There are two sets of sisters, two senior sisters, a senior couple, and 5 sets of elders. It is a crowded district meeting, but it will be great to have so much talent, and perspective to draw from.
As I didn't have my planner I find myself with more time to email this week, and so I will be able to answer some of your questions, and add of few needs. First, yes I do get the Ensign, the mission gives them to us every month. I don't know if I remember who Brandon on plain city rd is. I remember B Welch( did he ever go on a mission, or is he still living at home?), and I remember B Cluster(in Ogden). You will have to remind me who he is.
Whatever happened to T Reeder? I haven't heard anything about him. I wrote him a letter a while ago, and never heard back. Is he still living at home? If so, I may write him again.
Here is a funny/sad story. A couple of weeks ago I broke my shoes. I tripped, and the front part of my shoe opened up, and is now a mouth. Is there any way you could replace those for me? They are the Johnson and Murphy shoes, the nice square toed ones. If I sent them back would Mr Mac exchange them? If not I will just use the Ecco's until the end of my mission.
Also we met another couple up here who lived in Farr West. What a small world, I swear that place isn't that big, how many people could live there? And how many of them could be in our ward up here? Ridiculous, but it was cool to talk about it.
This transfer is only five weeks long, and this is the transfer that I will "finish my sister mission", and hit 18 months. Time has flown by, and seems to be going even faster, I knew almost every one of the 17 elders that went home yesterday. Its weird to see so many of your friends leave. My 2nd complanion left yesterday, and he was the last one of my companions that went home before me, I will go home before all of the rest of my companions. Sad.
Did you send me another tie rack, the four I have are full. I had 108 ties. Its crazy. I haven't worn the same tie twice since I've been here. There are several of them, ones I didn't buy, that I will leave out here, but I am definetly bringing home all of the good ones, and ones given to me as gifts.
Hope you guys have a great week.
Love Elder Schultz
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