Week 7

Hello everyone!

Tuesday: Started off with a District Meeting, and was asked to give a 5 minute talk on "my purpose as a missionary." And it went really well I got compliments from about everyone in my District. We visited a less active family, the Malstrom's, and they seem like a cool family, the parents are less active and believe in some of the church doctrines but not with some. Their kids are not baptized but we had a good conversation with them and have a appointment on November 1st when they get done with sports and tournaments in Mesquite. 

Wednesday: Wednesday was a rough start, we had door after door slammed in our face, we even had a man mock us at a red light. But all the sorrows of the morning were worth it, we went on real time coordination (visit people with ward mission leaders) and we went to visit this man named Roberto, he took the lessons from the sisters before we got to the area and when we introduced ourselves to him a week or two ago he wasn't interested. He took the lessons to have an understanding of the LDS church. But he had a relationship with our ward mission leader and he  invited brother Homer to read a book he liked that talked about spiritual feelings, and said he would read the Book of Mormon if he read his book. So for RTC we visited him and he let us in and started talking about the spiritual book, and brother Homer turned into a preacher, he would not stop talking. And in the beginning I was thinking let us missionaries chime in on this conversation! But he was doing so well half way through I was thinking don't stop talking! You are answering all this questions! So we had a good discussion and answered a lot of his questions. He even asked us when church was, we didn't even have to invite him! After that we went over to a members home and the father just had another surgery on his head, (we didn't know the mans situation or story) but he had a hard time speaking and speaks very fluent ASL and his wife was a good translator. So we gave him a priesthood blessing. A good way to end the day after such a spiritual night. 

Thursday: We had a quick Zone Meeting about "finding" and the Zone Leaders hid 100 pieces of candy in the church and we had 5 minutes to find them all. They related it to having the desire to find investigators, as much as we had a desire to find the candy. During RTC we went to visit an investigator who we have a meeting with on Monday and wanted to confirm the appointment but they were so busy and she got back from Seattle a week ago, and he got back from Orlando last night and they didn't have time to talk about it. But the stockings are coming with us to the lesson and I love the stockings! 

Friday: We had a lesson with Evelynn down at Temple Square, we had a good time with her and her family. We visited the North visitor center. We started in the basement with all the models of the prophets and talked about all the prophets of old and new. Then visited the Jesus Christ statue. We went to the "Families Can Be Together Forever" video, which was really good for her. Then finished it off with going to the Joseph Smith museum across the street. They had a good video on the First Vision. They had an oval like screen that covered your whole peripheral and normal eye sight and felt like we were walking in the forest with him.

Saturday: We did service for this less active lady with Elder Woolums. We sanded her front porch railing then painted it. It took us from 9-2. We ended our night visiting an Elders Quorum president, Brother Dixon, and he was an awesome guy! He taught me so much on how to be a good missionary and some tips and tricks to have success. I am grateful for his desire to make me a new missionary more effective! 

Sunday: We were looking forward to seeing Roberto at Church, but he didn't show up! We went by his house to see why he wasn't at Church and he said he wanted to spend time with family, but he said he was interested in having us and brother Homer come back over on Wednesday. We taught a members daughter a lesson to prepare herself to be baptized. It was a good idea to have some practice teaching. They are a very active family. We finished out night by visiting the Stocking's! It was brother Stocking's birthday so we came by to tell him happy birthday and then we had an amazing discussion as always. They are such a spiritual family and I love going over there and talking to them. 

Well that is it for the week.

Love you all,
Elder A A Ron

Some pictures of our trip to Temple Square with Evelynn and her family.