Finding a boomerang!
Hola a todos!
This week was certainly interesting. We had another kind of slow week here. The work has kind of stagnated a little here, which has been hard on us. We had a lot of momentum at the end of last transfer, and it's kind of fallen off a bit. It has been extremely hard to find new investigators, and it has also been hard to get in appointments with the investigators that are already in our teaching pool. For instance, we weren't able to meet with two of our solid investigators (O and the V family). Nearly everything fell through this week, and it was a little mentally exhausting. Also, we haven't been able to use our car this week because of our miles situation, so we have had to bike everywhere. It was a very tiring week both physically and mentally. Let's just say that we are glad that it is a new month and we have miles again.
There was some good this week though. We have been trying to expand our teaching pool by finding new areas to tract in. We mostly just keep tracting the heck out of these little areas that we know are Spanish. So, this week, we tried going through different neighborhoods that we haven't tried, doing a lot of profiling. Finally, on Thursday, we were able to find this massive neighborhood with a ton of Spanish houses! We haven't had a chance to tract a lot in it yet, but we are hoping to find some new investigators. Also in that neighborhood, we found a boomerang on the side of the road! So, we decided to keep it. We are planning to get proficient at boomerang skills by the end of this transfer.
Thursday was also my three month mark, which is crazy! Time is flying by so fast, and I can’t believe I'm already an eighth of the way through my mission. On Thursday I said, "Man, I can’t believe I only have 7 more of these!" Crazy stuff. Saturday was Halloween, so Elder A and I switched ties (exciting, I know). We didn't really do much. It was straight dumping rain, and we had to be back by 6 anyways. So, that night we just did our weekly planning.
This week, we were able to have a lesson with H. He is progressing so well! We had a lesson about following the prophet, and we also reviewed Joseph Smith and the Restoration. It was probably the most solid lesson that Elder A and I have had together. Also, on Sunday, H came to church again! Hermano F has officially reached angel status in our eyes for bringing him every week. This week during Gospel Principles, we were a little more prepared. Hermano K did another solid job of teaching, as we talked about temples, and went over some of the Plan of Salvation again. H is just awesome. As for his baptism, we were going to try to have it on the 14th, but the ward planned an activity on that day that we didn't know about until this week. Also, the next Saturday is Stake conference for us, so hopefully, we'll be able to get it done on the 28th (or we might try to find a week day that works, but it's hard because he has to be at the doctor's so much).
My ponderizing scripture for this week is actually a quote from a devotional given by Elder Holland back when he was president of BYU. The talk is called, "The Inconvenient Messiah," and it's super good! My quote from it is, "If for a while, the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived."
Hope you all have a good week!
Elder Mitchell
His district
The main highway in Smyrna
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