This week was the last week of the transfer! It was a pretty good week. Elder Curtis and I are both staying in Brownsville so nothing changes for at least another six weeks.
We had a blitz almost every day so we didn't do a lot of work in our area. But it was a good week. I learned a lot of things that can help us in our area. On Thursday we had exchanges with the Zone Leaders. I went with one of the ZL's named Elder Livingston in the ZL's area. Elder Livingston is a very energetic missionary and we worked very hard. He is a very good missionary and i learned a lot from him. He has a ton of animio and is super excited to be out on his mission. I learned two things from him on our exchange. One we need to love our mission, and two we have to work with the members or we won't have success. During our exchange a few things happened. They had one investigator that was super close to baptism but was living with her boyfriend (who is a member). We were supposed to have a lesson with both of them at the church that night but it turns out that they broke up. So Elder Livingston turned this sad situation for her upside down. We went over the ladies house and talked with her. Luckily we had another member with us who was able to help her. But long story short the investigator was baptized the next day. It was all possible because of the member that we brought with us. Elder Livingston told me that it doesn't matter if we have 2 members of 500 members in our area it is all how we use them. We don't have very many members in our area and it's been hard for us to get their help but we are going to use them more and have more success because of it!
I also had another learning experience this week. On Saturday Elder Curtis and I were working in someone else's area and we found a man named Rafeil. Rafeil doesn't have legs so we decided to go and share the plan of salvation with him. But right away Rafeil didn't stop talking so we weren't able to give him a lesson. He told us his whole life story. He has diabetes, no legs, he's legally blind, he had a growth on his arm and he is on dialysis. He has every right to be super sad and depressed but he was the nicest most energetic person i have met in a while. He taught me a big lesson. I have it good. I have all my legs i can see. Lately i have been making a lot of excuses but after meeting Rafeil i decided that i don't have any more excuses.
On Sunday we were going to have a Baptism for Janet. But she didnt' show up to Church. That was very sad. I was so excited for Janet to be baptized. We still haven't heard from her so we don't know what is going on with her. But she will be baptized this sunday! It just comes down to using members. We need to help her have some friends in the church. That is one thing we have negletcted. We need her to love church!!
Well that was my week in a nut shell. I hope that you guys are all doing amazing!
Love, Elder Hurst
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