First
off I am not getting fat... yet, and yes we did get two diners again this Sunday night which is super nice.
This week was alright, kinda the same
as all the past weeks, we wake up do study then lunch then we'll have
some lesson's hopefully planed, but if we don't or they are not home we pick a town (because every town is really small) and go see all of
our investigators, knock on doors, go home to get dinner, and go back out
to see some families in the ward or less actives, or to see some more
investigators or knock on more doors. For the most part we drive around
trying to get to our less actives or new/newly active members. One of
my goals here in Marksville is to strengthen our ward, have the members
that do come, become temple worthy members, and be members that will come for
the rest of there life, and be members that will seek out opportunity's to
teach and preach the gospel. Then I want to bring more people into the
church. Because if we don't strengthen our foundation it will be all
pointless. One of
the ways that I am doing that is to go see a different member at less
twice a week to get to know them and to teach them something new and
teach them something to strengthen their testimony and faith. There is this one
family in the branch and every Monday they fast just for that, so
me and my comp started to do that as well except we fast on Wednesday, so ya every
Wednesday we fast to grow and strengthen our branch and to get more
investigators. And let me tell you that last Thursday was the best day yet,
because everyone was home, we were feed dinner by a less active family
that has been dodging us for the past month or so, and we got two new and
strong investigators. We ended up teaching 5 lesions between 2pm and
8pm, which is way good for around here.
Other then that we had stake conference which is always fun especially when there are like 16 missionary's there to get to know. Yes the time is flying by. And I hope your hand is going to be ok.
Love and miss you all,
Love Elder Gordon
Elder Gordon, glad to hear the work is going well and that you are working like crazy out there. Ellis' have been thinking about you and praying for you and your branch. Hope you don't put on too much weight with the double Sunday diners...nice! Sounds like you are going to fast them away! I always know you were a spiritual giant under that cool exterior :)
ReplyDeleteLove ya my friend,
Bishop Ellis