This week was good. We were able to see a lot of good things happen, and the coming week has a lot of great potential, I am excited to see how it will work out.
Monday we were able to see Nathan P. He had three friends over, who sat in on the lesson. For the most part they were nice, but one of them was more interested in proving us wrong than he was in learning more. It would have been real easy to give way to that and start an arguement, but we stayed calm, and tried to teach. We have another lesson set with them for this evening, and if they try to do that again we will bear simple testimony, and leave it at that. There is no point in meeting with them if they don't want to learn. After that we saw Tyson O, he is an inactive member who is finishing up medical school, and he makes his own beer. We met with him, his girlfriend, and their friend. We talked a lot about prayer, and we are meeting with them this week as well. Hopefully we will be able to start teaching his girlriend.
Tuesday our Training and Practice was on our purpose as missionaries. It is important to know why you are here and why you are doing what you are doing. We have also set some District Goals to help us stretch, and improve. That evening we met with Clancy G. He has been doing really well, and this week we are going to train the ward missionaries on their job, and how to teach, and then we are going to turn Clancy over to the ward missionaries, so that they can fulfil their calling.
Wednesday we tracted into a man who said he loved mormon music. We had just heard about a BYU performance that we had tickets for, and we were able to invite him. Saturday we dropped off the tickets, and he was really grateful, and we set up a time to come back and do service. That evening we met with Howard M, he is slowly coming, but is difficult to teach, because he isn't very open. He has opened up a lot to us, but its still rough.
Thursday night we were finally able to have splits work out. We have a schedule for it, but people have always cancelled on us. We did a ward missionary blitz, and so I participated in that, and was able to teach Scott F, and Elder Lott went with a priest, and taught a home teaching family, and then visited potentials.
Friday I was on exchange with Elder Hehl. He is an interesting guy. It was interesting to see the differences in approach between Elder Lott and himself. Elder Lott's method of teach and testify is a lot more effective than Elder Hehl's "Can we have a moment?" That night we had a lesson set with Shawn G and Kristian. Shawn stood us up, but we were able to sit down with Kristian, and get to know him more, and teach him more about faith, and what he can do to know for sure. He is a really neat young man, and he is open to learning more about the gospel.
Saturday I had my first SPC. We talked about the ward mission process and how it was going in each of the wards in the stake. It seems to be going well in each area, and has definetly improved since Elder Hansen came and visited all of the bishops and stake presidents. The focus of the ward is changing, and there are going to be a lot of opportunities to teach from this. We met with David and Melissa and went over the story of the tree of life with them, and talked about the importance of holding to the rod. We committed him to read everyday, and we divided up the chapter assignment into verses, and he didn't think that would be hard at all and agreed to read a few verses a day. That night we stopped by Sydney's house. We had tracted into her(shes about 15) and few weeks ago, then we followed up and saw her sister(about 12) then again and saw her brother (about 17). We finally were able to see their father, and we set up an appointment to meet with all of them this Friday. That is potentially four new investigators.
Sunday we were able to meet with Mary D, the first person that has been invited from the ward mission plan to hear the missionary discussions. This was the first time on my mission that I had seen this process work. It was really neat to see. We taught Mary about the Gospel, and she was really knowledgable, and eager to learn, and improve. We gave a blessing to sister Richmond, and will be able to teach her caregiver on Tuesday, and we were also able to give a blessing to sister rivers.
This week I am excited for Zone Conference, though I am a little peeved about the day, we now have to cancell our lesson with our golden contact Valorie, but it will work out I'm sure. I have an exchange set with Elders Auwen and Bishop, and am glad to be able to talk to them about how they are doing. Elder Auwen doesn't seem too happy with his current situation. I hope to help him see what it is that he can learn from this, and how he can make his situation better. I remember when I was with Elder Fifita. That was hard for me, and I know that I could have done better in some things, so hopefully I can teach him those things so that he won't have to miss out. I also get to do my first baptismal interview this week, in fact I have two of them. I am nervous and excited. I am praying that I will have the Spirit with me and that they will both go well. I have been studying on that topic to make sure that I am prepared.
Love Elder Schultz
PS. I will send my shoes when I can, which will probably be next week, I'm not sure if we will have time today. I havent gotten the package yet, but when I do I can send a thank you letter to you for them. Thats so cool that Lily prays for me, did they get the christmas card I sent them? I may write them a letter as well.
So we have an infestation of ants in our apartment now, and in order to keep them down I would prefer if you done send any hard candy. Things like lifesavers and jollyranchers I can't eat fast enough to keep the ants out. Chocolate is still good, and other things like that, but no hard candy. Thanks.
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