September 28, 2009

dear family i dont have much time like usual haha but to clear up something, i am not training but i living with a missionary who is getting trained. i am still zone leadering it up haha. but i know you like experience and so i dont want to give you a bad one. but it was definately a bad week. we just figured out how to get people to pray to God and ask him if it is true and them to get their answer right then. but last week was a huge test for me and my companion. we were just working our tails off but we couldnt find anyone. we were working our butts off but nothing went right. it was the wierdest and worst week of my mission. we had to drop about 6 people that were committed to getting baptized. because they werent progressing. so it was a sad week. but we just figured its because we found out a way to give the people testimonies way easy, so satan worked his hardest to hide the people waiting for us. so it was pretty frustrating and not to mention that an investigator that we were teaching that was committed to baptism talked to a member because they were friends. and the member scared her off way bad. the investigator had only heard the first 2 lessons but already knew the church was true but a member went up to our investigator and asked her if she was going to quit smoking, drinking, and dump her boyfriend. and our investigator got scared and said no. so the member told her to give back the book of mormon and said she wasnt ready to be baptized. so it was pretty frustrating and we told the member that we never taught her those lessons yet and the member got all defensive and said that she knew who was ready to get baptized and who wasnt. so it was pretty frustrating because usually the opposition comes from outside of the church, but this time it came from the inside. so it was a pretty tough week. but it doesnt matter this is a whole new week. but i got to go and thanks for writing everyone. i am proud of you megan for teaching the lesson. thats way cool. lessons always mean more if you take time to prepare it. you can always tell a difference. thats way cool that you are having the missionaries over to dinner. just make sure they dont stay too long. some missionaries like chilling with members cuz they dont have to be working. and nikki i did recieve your video, i even got the sound. so keep doing it. make sure lance isnt getting too fat. haha kelsey espero que saques buenas notas en la escuela y no salgas con chicos que se han vuelto de la mision. divertíte pero no salgas con changos como ellos. jaja cuidáte. chau. remember the spanish from here is a little different. instead of using tu. they use vos. chau