This week was a good one! It is really starting to cool off which I definitely have mixed feelings about. I really got used to this warm weather and now even though it is only like -2 we are dying haha. We found quite a few new investigators this week so that was really nice!
Monday night we found 2! One of them was a YSA native guy named Darien. He is religious but not established at a church which is nice because that way he does not get blinded by his relation to one specific church and is open to receiving the truth. It is too bad because later this week he texted us and told us that he left to Thompson for like 3 weeks. We are trying to set him up with the Thompson elders so we will see what happens there. We also found the best person ever! His name is Goodly, he is a 75 year old Jamaican man who is very converted to Jesus but not to one church either! We taught the Restoration and he just had he biggest light bulb moment I have ever seen! When we taught about the apostasy he just knew it was true! He had us write it down for him and and he was like this is true! I don't want to get ahead of myself but he seems really solid. He was busy this wee so we are seeing him Tuesday hopefully!
Tuesday we had District meeting and we were supposed to have our assistants exchange but since we had bed bugs they said that we would reschedule it! It may never happen but we will see. We tracted almost all day and we gave a blessing to an old man who was baptized a few months back. He will most likely pass on in the next couple months so his timing was spot on to get baptized!
Wednesday was a bit of a blur as well, we tracted a ton and prepared for our fumigation which was on Thursday. Our apartment consists of everything in big plastic bags; clothing, food, appliances, everything!
On Thursday we had a meeting for all of the Zone, District and Sister Training leaders in the mission which had never happened since I have been in the mission. It was for the introduction to the Christmas initiative! The video is SOOO good this year! It will be released to the public this Friday! Share it with everyone! I feel like Christmas is our way in, we can get everyone excited about Christ at Christmas! The hashtag is #LIGHTtheWORLD. We also found someone on Thursday that I am even more hopeful for than Goodly! His name is Adonis, he is from the Congo. Do you see a theme of us not teaching any white people hahah. It is by choice but not our choice, they choose to slam the door every time haha. Anyways Adonis is searching for a church and said he asks himself everyday "why are they so many christian churches hat disagree?" We hit him with that restoration and boom baptismal date! Hopefully he holds it. We are meeting with him on Tuesday as well! We will see what happens. I kind of feel like all of our eggs are in two baskets with Adonis and Goodly but I guess 2 is better than 1! Pray for us on Tuesday, It will be very make or break!
Friday was a slow day filled with Tracting and some recent convert lessons.
Saturday we taught some lessons and got lunched 7 times I think. It was a good time! Sometimes it can be overwhelming because we have 200 000 plus people living in our ward boundary and there is no way we can meet them all so we need to find by the spirit. I am trying to do that but it is not easy!
Sunday President Craig came to our ward! That was a pleasant surprise! We also had a pot luck!
This coming week we have an MLC in which everyone will be in. We will set a mission goal of baptisms for 2017. It will be wild! I look forward to it!
Love you all!
Elder Stewart
No comments:
Post a Comment