Hey,
The gospel does make so much sense! We have talked to some of our investigators about that, especially with their ideas of the trinity. They will try to explain something and we get so confused. The gospel really is simple and simply makes sense.
Sounds like your 4th was fun! We actually went to a ward members activity on the 4th. It is way more of a community thing. She makes root beer floats and everyone brings desert and all the ward members pitch in to have a huge firework show and they don't restrict fireworks here like they do in Utah. So it is like a city firework show. We only were able to go from 8 to 9 pm since missionaries were actually supposed to be in by 6 pm. We had interviews with the mission president on the 4th and we told him about it, that there were going to be lots of non-members and less active members, and we had hoped and investigator would come. He gave us special permission to go. We were able to meet a lot of people and they even set off a couple fireworks just for us. We also had a BBQ with our Bishop and his wife.
Our Investigator from Africa isn't back yet I think she gets back this week.
The holiday made it tough to contact because so many people are out of town or they have family in town and don't want to talk to us. And it has been in the hundreds pretty much every day, not counting the humidity. However we had some great experiences that were us just being at the right place at the right time and saying the right things. We had 3 of the less active families come to church which was amazing and 2 of them stayed the whole 3 hours and one of the families had to leave, but said they would stay all of it next week.
Our ward really has been good to us. For a while we weren't sure what they thought of us. The ward has seen a lot of problems and are still recovering from them but each week we can see progress. We send a calendar around for our meals. When we eat dinner with a ward member and their family, it just gives us a chance to get to know them and for us to share a message with them so its a win-win. But the whole time we have been here we would send it around on Sundays and maybe one person would sign up. We taught Relief Society yesterday and we spoke in Sacrament meeting 2 weeks ago and after those I think that they can see us as real people and not pushy missionaries and when we got our meal calendar back at the end of Relief Society, there were 7 families signed up and some of those were the Less Actives we have been working on. We were so so excited.
I don't remember what 70 is coming but I think it is an area 70. I didn't get to see any apostles at the MTC. I think a lot of it was because of the Broadcast that was like a week after I got out here. Right now we have mostly investigators that are just starting out. Our biggest problem is that none of them will actually make appointments with us. They all just tell us to drop by, and they don't really want to commit to a certain day to meet. Thanks so much for your guys' love and support.
Sister Sydnie Huss
No comments:
Post a Comment