We started the week off with a bunch of contacts. We are always contacting, but we did a bunch! One day, we had a few ¨inspired¨ contacts. We just left the house and were walking along a street that is probably the busiest of our sector. An old man was sitting down, just watching the cars go by. We said hi to him and he said hi back. I walked a few steps and I said, ¨Ok, we are going back.¨ We went back, presented ourselves, did some small talk, and taught the Restoration of the Gospel! It went well and he was really receptive. Another was that we were contacting a ¨future¨ investigator (someone that we had talked to outside and said to come back later.) We were walking there and I saw a teenager sitting on a swing on a swingset. I told my companion, if we didnt get in the door, we were going to talk to him! We didnt get in the door, so I had to stick to my word! I went over and to start conversation, I asked him if he knew a person named Fabian over there close. He said he didnt obviously, because I made it up, but then we started to talk to him. We did the same with the old man and ended up teaching the Restoration and a little bit of the Plan of Salvation. In the end, he showed us his hands and cut marks. He had cut himself because he was low on self-confidence. He really didnt know what his purpose was on earth so we set another time to meet him to be able to teach him the plan that God has planned for all his children. We werent able to meet with him again last week but hopefully we can catch him the next week!
We have a few other investigators that we are working with that look like they have been prepared by the Lord to recieve the message. We had to drop an investigator because he wants to do scouts on Sundays with a certain church that believes that Saturday is the day of rest. We had another investigator that was doing scouts as well but he says he wants to go to our church rather than doing that. So, we lost one but we gained one!
My companion has 3 weeks left of his mission! We are working hard though!
Love yall
Elder Gregory
One year mark
Its pretty hard to believe that this week Ill hit the one year mark. I keep thinking of how quick the year went and I think, ¨hey, I can do this again! I feel great!¨
We walked with an investigator to church named Mauricio. We had contacted him in the market one weekend and we got his address and he was able to go to church with us yesterday. The mission is really pushing us to find a family in our sector to start teaching a complete family. So, we were contacting and doing all sorts of things to find that family this past week. On Sunday, the last day of the week for a missionary, we got in a door and taught a family! They seemed really interested and the father had a lot of good questions. We taught of the Restoration of the Gospel and when we spoke about the Book of Mormon, the Spirit was especially strong. So, hopefully that is the family that the Lord wanted us to find!
Another missionary from the ward left this past week. He went to Antofagosta, Chile. So that means there are 5 or 6 now out in the field from this ward and another headed out next month to California. Its always so awesome to see missionaries leave for the field because they are so ready to go!
Elder Horton and I are switching up our contacts and some things so that we can find some people to teach. We are going to have another mini conference with the President this next week so we will probably get a lot more council on how to do things.
Elder Gregory
We walked with an investigator to church named Mauricio. We had contacted him in the market one weekend and we got his address and he was able to go to church with us yesterday. The mission is really pushing us to find a family in our sector to start teaching a complete family. So, we were contacting and doing all sorts of things to find that family this past week. On Sunday, the last day of the week for a missionary, we got in a door and taught a family! They seemed really interested and the father had a lot of good questions. We taught of the Restoration of the Gospel and when we spoke about the Book of Mormon, the Spirit was especially strong. So, hopefully that is the family that the Lord wanted us to find!
Another missionary from the ward left this past week. He went to Antofagosta, Chile. So that means there are 5 or 6 now out in the field from this ward and another headed out next month to California. Its always so awesome to see missionaries leave for the field because they are so ready to go!
Elder Horton and I are switching up our contacts and some things so that we can find some people to teach. We are going to have another mini conference with the President this next week so we will probably get a lot more council on how to do things.
Elder Gregory
April 4 2011
This past weekend was amazing. The general conference talks were great. I feel like they spoke on marriage a lot so our whole zone was looking at my companion and teasing him, since he will be home in six weeks! The mission had transfers but our sector didnt. Ill be here with Elder Horton in Los Volcanes for a little while longer. Ill be able to ¨kill¨ a missionary. (In other words, Ill be the last companion of my companion.)
We are working hard and we have been finding some new people. The boy that we started to play soccer with last week went to the stake center to see general conference with us on Sunday Morning. His mom didnt go but is willing to go the next week at our local chapel. We hope to have a few more investigators in church this next week and get the new transfer going good.
The General Conference talks were amazing and I liked a few of them a lot. One really hit me on why we have to suffer. Elder Bednar (an apostle) gave an amazing example in his talk on personal revelation. He compared it to a light switch, lighting up a pitch black room, or its like a sunrise that is really gradual. I think we all look too much for those ¨light switch¨ revelations but that we all need to appreciate the gradual sunrise ones. That was related to another talk that was amazing by President Uchtdorf. He said that many investigators, and members, look for something big to happen to have an assurance of the truth of the Gospel. We have to be able to have faith and acknowledge the small whisperings of the Spirit. Those were a few that I really liked! (I dont have my notes with me or Id write more specifically.)
I love yall!
Elder Gregory
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