Helping Buy a Home

Practicing his dunking!

Buenos!

Well, it was interesting week. Not too many exciting things. The work here is still going well, and we are still teaching plenty of lessons. The only problem is all of them have been on-the-doorstep tracting lessons. We are having a real issue with being able to set appointments with people, and all the appointments that we set fall through. So we are finding plenty of new and potential investigators, but we are really struggling to get back in with people. As for our most progressing investigator, J, we weren't able to meet with him this week, and he didn't come to church, so we are really hoping to hear back from him this week.

Probably the most exciting thing from this week came on Tuesday morning. We got a text from one of the Hermana's old investigators, R. She told us that she and her husband were trying to buy a new house, and they needed us to translate for them at the bank. Needless to say, neither Elder C nor I had done this kind of thing before, so I was frantically looking up bank vocab in Spanish. We met them at the bank, and we figured out who they needed to make their check out to. Then we drove down to this Mobile Home Liquidators place to work out their new housing contract. We got all the terms and conditions of the contract set up, got the contract signed, and we totally helped these guys buy a new house! Whoo! Then, we went back to the bank to get the check and stuff. It was pretty cool. R tried to pay us, but we didn't accept. We asked if we could set an appointment though, and she accepted. We are pretty excited for that this week.

Helping translate

On Thursday we took a trip to Monterey and worked there the whole day. It's a little town that's part of our area, it's about 15 miles or so east of Cookeville, so we don't go there too often, but there's a good number of Hispanics there. We went through and tried to contact a lot of old people (we actually ended up dropping a lot of people). But, we also found a lot of new investigators, and a couple of them seemed really interested. We also tried a couple of less actives, but nobody answered. It was still a fun day though.

On Saturday nights we hold an English class at the church. We only have one student right now, a man named C who is desperately trying to learn English. But we are hoping to get some more students soon. C is pretty good about coming, so mostly we just go over any questions he has. We taught him how to call the school office to tell them he's going to pick up his son, and stuff like that. We had another good Sunday, it was just long. The Burgess Falls ward decided to do their correlation before church at 8:00, so we were at the church from 8-4:30. It's a blast...haha, yeah, it's long but good.

English Class

My ponderizing scripture this week is Alma 18:35, "And a portion of that Spirit dwelleth in me, which giveth me knowledge, and also power according to my faith and desires which are in God." The spirit is so critical in missionary work. When we have the spirit with us, we will increase in knowledge and power. The spirit can illuminate our minds and increase our faith. And when the investigators experience the spirit, their faith will begin to grow as well. Yup. Hope y’all have a good week!

Love,
Elder Mitchell

More dunking on p-day

Visit to Monterey

Watch your grammar!