Tuesday- Started off
with a District Meeting and got a new theme for the month. True blue through
and through solid as a rock. Our stove hasn't been working so we went to Arby's
for lunch. No luck finding new people from that time until dinner. And elderly
couple for dinner took us to Chuck a Rama, which was a buffet and was really
good. As we were driving there we past two Elders on bikes and one was an Elder
from my district at the MTC I screamed, Elder Best! And he waved back. I guess
he must be in Draper. Since the Chuck a Rama is in Draper.
Wednesday- Was brutal
didn't have success anywhere. Couldn't find anyone and our two lessons canceled
on us.
Thursday- My companion
had to go to a Spanish meeting as well as another Elder in our Zone (Which I
don't understand because they speak Portuguese). So I went on splits with Elder
Mitchell, who came out to the mission the same week as me. So they left two
"greenies" to fend for themselves. We taught a lesson to a less active in his area
and it went really well. Went and saw a less active in our area when Elder
Costa's meeting was done had a good discussion about General Conference and
invited him to church, no luck there. We then had RTC (Real Time Correlation) where
Ward Mission Leaders go on splits with us and we go see members of their ward.
We went and saw the Stocking family who are an older couple. Both are active
members and had a good discussion with one of our investigators and they are
awesome people! Sister Stocking said, "I feel like your grandma and you need a
hug". So you could say I broke the mission rules but it was so needed at the
time. I felt like my grandma was hugging me.
Friday- Wow. We had a
lesson with one of our investigators and it went really well. We invited her
and her family to come to temple square with us next Saturday and
they accepted it. She is 9 years old and her dad is less active and they live
with their aunt and uncle who are both active members. I had the craziest
experience at night. It was 8:15 at night and we were knocking doors
and this woman started crying as she opened the door and we were like
uhhhhh.... She told us to come in. She was so happy to see us. She had the
roughest day of her life. She recently got divorced and now is a single mom of
three kids. Works and goes to school full time. And just got done with a fight
with her mom over the phone two minutes before we were at her door step. She
said the LDS people have always been there whenever she has had a rough day. And
was blessed that we came over. We started talking about temples and how we felt
as we went through the temple. And encouraged her to do the steps to get to the
temple. We started talking about the plan of salvation to her/ the restoration.
It was the most bizarre discussion I've ever had. She is big into spiritual
psychology and was saying some weird things, but ultimately said that this was
the true church and that Joseph Smith saw God and Jesus. Her only concern is
our churches stand on homosexuality and her friend was transgender and felt
that she would be betraying her friend if she joined our church. So we bore our
testimonies on families and told her to pray to know for herself. We are
sending her an inspirational message everyday by text and seeing how she is
doing.
Saturday- Did a lot of
tracting, we hit up a whole condo complex and didn't have much luck. We met
this one guy who was a return missionary but according to the facts of blood
samples and different things the Book of Mormon was just a fairytale. We kinda
argued with him for 20 minutes. He believes that we have the best lifestyle out
of any religion and stuff like that, but doesn't believe in God anymore because
he has been through 5 divorces. My favorite quote that I heard on the missionary
district videos was by Jeffery R Holland and it states, "No evil man could
write such a book, and no good man would write it unless it were true and he
was commanded of God to do so."
Sunday- Sunday's are
chaotic here in the Salt Lake mission! We are bouncing from church building to
church building for meetings and being with our investigators. So much driving
back and forth. I bore my testimony in Sacrament Meeting about how my mission
has been good for me so far. I talked about Mosiah 3:19 about the
natural man and becoming as a child. I said it was hard for me to give up the
natural man and making the decision to come on a mission. And how I need to
have love like little children do to all that I come in contact with, even
the people who slam the door in our face. Because Jesus even loved the very
people that crucified him. Good experience sharing about that.
Well that is all for this week. Thank you for the prayers and support!
Love you all,
Elder A-A-Ron
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