Hey family! I am doing really well and we had some good things going
on this week!
We taught a man named Paul on Tuesday but he is the one that will only
take us out to restaurants so we drove to the Plaza and taught him
while eating at PF Changs so that was awesome. He is so sweet and
loves meeting with us and learning about our religion. We are still
trying to figure out how sincere he is is wanting to act on the things
he is learning but we'll see. We taught a Spanish family on Tuesday
night and that went great! We taught them the Restoration and they
accepted it all really well and they are now preparing to be baptized
on Feb 18th! The only bummer about it is that we found out right after
the lesson that they live on the other side of the street of our ward
boundaries so we had to refer them to the elders in Overland Park 2nd
ward...it was real hard to give them up but that's okay. It doesn't
matter who baptizes them, even thought I would love to see them
through the process. Because they were just right across the street,
we debated about just keeping them but then decided we should probably
follow the rules..
We have been trying to build some trust with the members in our ward
so we bought some cookie dough last Monday and made and dropped off
some cookies to members and less actives in our ward and that went
super well! We have been able to work a little bit better with the
members in our ward and get to know them better.
We had the worldwide mission broadcast on Thursday that we watched
with president vest and a couple other zones in our mission and that
was really good! They changed the missionary schedule and the key
indicators too. We still get up at 6:30am to exercise and everything
but then instead of doing planning at night when we come home, we plan
for our day in the morning. They shortened studies and lunch as well.
So far it has been going well. They made it so you only have to do
personal study in the morning and can make all your other studies more
flexible throughout the day. It is supposed to help missionaries go
home and continue to stay active in the church and doing their studies
according to their schedule. They also made it so there are only 4 key
indicators instead of 11. That way we could be more focused on
fulfilling our purpose instead of trying to meet all of these key
indicators. I think it is a good idea.
They also talked a lot about the Doctrine of Christ in the broadcast
and I love how they described our purpose so simply. They talked about
how we are called to establish the church and not just proclaim the
gospel. We need to teach repentance and baptize converts. We do that
by helping others trust in him (faith), depend on him (repent), follow
him (baptism), and persevere with him (endure to the end). We need to
always testify of Him and keep His name on our lips.
We have had some crazy experiences this week because we keep finding
all these new investigators that seem so solid but then we text them
to see how they are doing and send them a motivational scripture and
it backfires on us. We got like 4 texts this week saying stuff like
"please don't ever talk to me again. I am blocking your phone number
and lose the address" and a bunch of other stuff like that. Super
frustrating. But things with our other investigators seem to be going
well! We put Yacob and Jabez on date to be baptized in the end of
February so that's exciting! We teach them every Friday and they are
from Ethiopia and have a lot of questions and they were sure if they
would be ready or not but we told them that if they set the date and
act on the things they are learn with an open heart, they would be
ready...so we are STOKED about that!
It was great to hear from you and I love and miss you all!
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