By far one the best week I've of 2014!!!!
This week was fantastic!
Working alongside Elder Witehira is great. He loves to work hard and so do I, so it’s
perfect. Even though we didn’t hit our
weekly goals, we saw a lot of people.
Our first lesson on Tuesday was with a very stubborn woman
who 'has her church.' We focused on the
Book of Mormon and the Restoration. Honestly I think she has her answer but just
isn’t willing to admit it yet. I think I
ended up asking her one of my favorite questions to ask people who 'have their
church,' "if Jesus Christ comes down right now and says my Son/Daughter
____, my church is the one over here, but you are going to the one over
there. What would you do?" As missionaries, we are representatives of
our Savior Jesus Christ. We are telling people that Christ has his
church. but since we aren’t Christ, we invite everyone to pray and ask for
themselves. It breaks my heart when
people get their answer after praying and still refuse to accept it. I pray that Sister Hawa doesn’t do that.
We had some younger girls call of over and wanted us to
start teaching (or as they call it- preach to them). we had a small lesson just kind of
introducing ourselves and purpose to them.
It was really hard because they just wouldn’t listen. During the lesson we saw that their pa
walked by and after the lesson we went up to him as he was walking towards
us. Before we said a word, he starts
talking to the girls about how we are men of God, and how they need not to
waste our time. It was really
interesting to see the change in their faces, and nice to see that someone does
recognize that we are here for a purpose and that we are representatives of
Jesus Christ. We said hello to the pa
after he got done being vex with them. Hopefully
we will find a time that we can talk to the whole family and have a family
investigator.
On Saturday we went to baptisms even though we didn’t have a
candidate there. At home I remember people saying that
'mormons' have a certain glow about us. S aturday I truly noticed it. There was a sister who gave a talk and when
she stood up to start talking, you could just tell that she had something about
her. It was even really cool to see the people
who got baptized, to see the difference in their eyes from before they were
baptized and after. My whole life I
never really noticed it. This whole week, I've been noticing a lot more
of just the small little things. My
conclusion, MY MISSION IS THE BEST!!!!!
The Upper Caldwell Branch needs help. There are a lot of less active members. I was shocked that when the sacrament was
being passed, there were only about 15 people in the chapel. The
four Elders in my district/branch have a lot of work ahead of us.
Our apartment is, well, not as bad as I thought it was going
to be. We have city water pumped to us
so it’s nice. But, we haven’t had a generator
for the past 2 nights, we've lived in darkness.
We have no money to buy more gas
so we go without power for a couple days.
(I asked him about this in an extra email, and he said: I will go to the bank on Wednesday and get
it. District/apartment money is what
pays for the gas, we get 100 USD for gas for a month. It’s 350 LD so it’s almost 5 USD a
gallon. We have torches or flash lights, i got myself a lantern looking thing.) This
mission is humbling.
I hope that you have a great week and I love you all and
pray for you all.
Elder Park
The White AfricanT.I.A.
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