Family,
Well it was another good, busy week!
Monday-
Just a chill P day! Didn't really do a whole lot, just hung out around
the apartment most of the day until we went out at 6. After that, we
couldn't really meet with anyone we were hoping to except for Cody and
Dakota, two brothers who are like 20 and 16. They aren't very religious
but they seem to like to have us around and kind of like the whole idea
of the church. We got a couple of new potential investigators and that
was about it for the day.
Tuesday-
We started the day off with some service for the City. We opened a
bunch of checks for the City Utilities and endorsed them. Then, we went
and shoveled gravel off the sidewalk and grass were a temporary road
was. We met with Carol and mostly just talked about how to strengthen
her faith. We got a couple of new investigators, one named Dennis and
another named NIna. We were able to teach them both the first lesson and
it seemed to go pretty well! We met with Cody and Dakota again but Cody
was just pissed the whole time because his girlfriend had just cheated
on him with another girl. Haha! I'm also pretty sure that she is married
to someone else.... We had dinner with Brother Carrillo, who comes out
with us pretty much every Tuesday, and met with Kevin, Brian and Rose
(pretty sure Rose was strung out on meth), and the new member kid we
found last week, Tristen.
Wednesday-We
had a really good lesson with Teresa today that was the second half of
the Plan of Salvation. She's really coming along well and reads and
prays everyday! We had a lesson with one of our investigators on date,
Becky. We taught her about family prayer and scripture study and
committed her to do it with her family. We finally met the famous "Black
Al" in town and gave him a book of Mormon! We'll probably follow up
with him sometime next week.
Thursday-Zone
Conference pretty much all day today! It was really good and uplifting
and made me want to try harder at being a better missionary! We rode
down there and back in a freaking RV it was awesome. We had dinner with
the Wheelers. It was pretty good, but their kids hound me when if I
don't eat a ton so I ate way more than I should! haha
Friday-We
taught Carol and Teresa both the first 4 commandments today and they
both committed to live them! Teresa told us she had been praying to God
about what she should do to get her life in order right before we came
and know that we were an answer to her prayer! That was cool! We got
some flyers from zone conference about a new video the church has put
out called "Because of Him" so we went absolutely crazy handing those
out to everyone we saw. We got a new investigator named Stephanie, and
taught her the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We taught Becky a really good
lesson about repentance and showed her the video. Then, we flirted with
bashing at this lady named Randy's house. We were able to give her a
Book of Mormon and she said she would read and pray about it. We met
with the Christian kid we have on date and were only able to teach him
the first point of the Plan of Salvation because he talks to much! But
we found a new investigator at his house! A kid named Ty, who is about
12 years old and says he wants to be baptized!
Saturday-Pretty
much met with Less Actives only during the day. Still handed out flyers
like hot cakes. Then we had the Luau! It was tons of fun and I think it
really helped create some branch unity! Some of the Less Actives we met
with during the day even came so that was really good!
Sunday-Church
was good! Easter service was nice but we didn't get as many people to
church as we were hoping. That's been the most difficult thing so far,
is just getting people there. We had dinner with a member family, the
Crowthers, it was pretty good we had some leftover chicken from the Luau
we had the day before. Then we did some role play on how to share the
message of the Restoration with others. That went pretty well! They're
the only member family out in their city of Centralia so they will have
lots of opportunities to try it out. Handed out more flyers and met with
a couple Less Actives that didn't make it to church.
Love you all!
Elder Boman
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