Hello Amigos,
Happy Birthday
Mom!!! I love you so much and being on the mission has made appreciate you even
more. I wouldn't be here without you. I can go on and on, but I don't want to
get the other missionaries all jealous. I love you and I hope you have a great
day!
So this week we
have officially gone from four promising baptism dates at a all time high at
the beginning of the transfer to no bap dates and no investigators besides
Yurie and his wife (God bless you Yurie). It was pretty hard to accept at first
because I've been in this area my whole mission with 4 different companions
working our hardest building it up, and we've gone in 1 transfer from leading
the mission with lessons and baptism dates to being last in the mission with
lessons and everything else. So it was a hard week in terms of missionary work;
we only had 2 lessons. No one wants to meet with us anymore. And it makes me
sad to see a lot of the hard work that we have put in these 6 months didn't get
to where we thought or wanted it to. But that is ok, because it's not about us.
That is a great lesson that I have learned again and again here on my mission.
Well there is not much we can do other than to get back to work. So this is
most likely my last week in Severny so I got my companion all excited so we can
go our hardest this week and find as many new potentials that they can work
with for next transfer.
After church we
had a long talk with Yurie and he was saying his concerns for his family and if
he joins the church, and it made this week so sweet because he said that he
trusted that God will lead him every step of the way, and how he felt guided by
the spirit to tell us all of his concerns. I am amazed by how much this man has
changed since I've been on my mission, he has changed from a very difficult
person to teach who was depressed and had problems at home to one of the most
faithful men in our branch and he isn't even a member. It's when I teach people
like him that I know without a doubt that this gospel is true and that it
really can change lives and soften hearts. I know that it is all in the God's
timing with him and that he knows what's best for his family.
I also went on
splits this week and went to this little town 2 hours out of Rostov and visited
a branch of 8 members. There aren't any missionaries there because we don't
have enough missionaries. Someone stole the church sign off the branch so it
was hard to find because it was only a small room. But it's not that big of a
surprise someone stole the sign from Taganrod too and there branch is having a
lot of illegal problems right now, so hopefully the members will be able to
still meet there. But I met a wonderful member there; they have it so hard
here, and they feel all alone. There faith amazes me.
Pictures:
3rd biggest
temple in Russia on splits with the legend Elder Williams
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