Not very much happened this week. We dropped about 5 of our investigators because they weren't making an effort to do anything. So we kind of started over with the new transfer. We have found a couple of new people to teach. Hopefully they actually progress. On Tuesday we found a guy named David. He is a little different. But he walked us around his neighborhood and told us all the people that we could go by. We started contacting all the peolple and found two mini miracles.
The first mini miracle requires a little back story. The Conde's have brought their friend to church with them a couple of times and we have asked them multiple times for their address. They have not been able to find it though. But back to the mini miracle. As we were contacting one of the people David told us we could go by we found the Conde's friend's house! So we are going to try and teach the whole family. We haven't had a lesson with the family yet but we will for sure go back sometime this week and see if we can teach them.
The second mini miracle is a man named Raul. We knocked on his door and he invited us in. To make a long story short he is 81, his wife passed away, he has multiple things wrong with his health and he said a couple of times he doesn't want to live anymore. So we taught him the plan of salvation and invited him to be baptized. He accepted a date! He wants to live with his wife again. I know that Raul needs our help and that with his baptism will come the baptism of his wife in the future and that the two will be able to live together forever. Another small miracle with Raul is I can almost understand everything he says because he speaks so slow!
We had been encouraged to work more with our members by our district leader. So most of the end of this week was just working with members. On Friday we had a ward Halloween party with the English members so we went and tried to build relationships. Then on Saturday we went by all of our less active members. Most of them said that they were going to come to church. But they ended up not coming. We just have to keep working hard with the less active members. Most of the less active families are part member families as well. I think it is a little pattern that I am starting to notice. So we are going to be working a lot with the less actives and while we are at it see if we can teach the rest of the family.
We've learned a lot this week. One thing that has stuck out to me is that missionary work his hard. We have a talk that we listened to the other day called missionary work and the atonement. It is by Elders Holland and Eyring. One thing that Elder Holland says is that of course missionary work isn't going to be easy; the price of salvation isn't easy. We have to work and work and work some more to recieve salvation. It's the same as missionary work. We have to work and work and keep working to help other people receive their salvation. So no matter how hard it gets we have to keep trudging along.
Love, Elder Hurst
This is the exit we take every day.
This is Elder Curtis, George and I. George is a member in our area.
This is some food that we made because we didn't have very much food left.
This is the Conde boys playing basketball.
This is a picture of some of the Conde Children.
You know you're a missionary when you have a lifetime supply of tupperware.
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