We had tons of appointments this week! We ended the week with 16 lessons. That is really good for our area, and even two of those lessons were with investigators. So compared to last week’s zero, I' d say we’re starting to get better.
We are teaching E- and G- …sort of. E was raised Presbyterian and now claims to be only Christian. He doesn’t have much interest in being converted; but he does like The Book of Mormon, and he does like meeting with us. He cares for his wife who is sick and he enjoys the company. Hopefully as we continue to meet with him, and have him read The Book of Mormon he will begin to feel the spirit more in his life and feel the difference. We read 3 Nephi 17 with him last week and had a discussion about Christ as the Mediator. He had never heard of Christ in this role and became very curious about it. This week we are going to show him the talk, The Mediator, by Boyd K. Packer so hopefully that will help him understand this concept better.
Our next investigator is G- who was a referral from The Festival of Lights. It was a pretty good lesson even though it was over Skype because his power was out. He liked what we were teaching, and he believed it all pretty well. At the end when we asked him to be baptized, he got all skittish and thought it was too big of a commitment. He said, “Oh, I’ll just read the Book and then when I know it’s true, then maybe I can be get baptized.” He didn’t even want us to come back for another lesson! Ugh! So we are back to one investigator.
We had seven lessons with less active members this week with varying degrees of acceptance. Some
that actually made it to church this week. Then some said, “I know my choices and I’ll be accountable to God for them when the time comes.” That is too bad. We’ll keep working with the area to see how many people we can get coming to sacrament meeting.
I got all the mail you guts sent!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! The cake was awesome, I got the
package on Friday, and all day something was just off. I just wasn’t feeling happy. I came home and remembered that about this time my family’s mail could come about now, so I’ll go check the mailbox. I opened it up to find your package with Dad’s German Chocolate cake –it was exactly what I needed right then! The cake was the perfect taste of home to keep me motivated and happy. I am eating my 10 pounds of chicken from Costco for lunch everyday and then 3-5 eggs for breakfast every morning. #swoll
I heard about President Cooke going up to the sacred grove a while back, but I didn't know he saw
Jordan there!! I keep seeing so many people get home, and so many people get their calls!! It's a bit
overwhelming, I must admit. I saw a fun picture of Jordan, Nate, Bryson, Ben, Brianne, and Corrine. Some of my friends from my sophomore year who are all finally reunited! So cool!
We did end up having to do more tracting than last week... But we did start doing the tracting game where you give the person who's doing the door approach a word and they have to work it into their approach. I think my best moment was working noodle into one. "The Book of Mormon can turn your faith from a limp noodle into a strong arm of faith" That's how it's done. Elder Wang and I are getting along well now. I guess he's just a little shy at first, but now he's super funny!!! I think my favorite saying of his is, "Who care?!" Whenever you say something you're excited about he'll say that. Like the Superbowl for example, I would be all excited when I heard the Seahawks were up, and he'd say, "Who care football?" I CARE FOOTBALL!!! GO HAWKS!
I LOVE YOU ALL!!
Elder Sorensen
We are teaching E- and G- …sort of. E was raised Presbyterian and now claims to be only Christian. He doesn’t have much interest in being converted; but he does like The Book of Mormon, and he does like meeting with us. He cares for his wife who is sick and he enjoys the company. Hopefully as we continue to meet with him, and have him read The Book of Mormon he will begin to feel the spirit more in his life and feel the difference. We read 3 Nephi 17 with him last week and had a discussion about Christ as the Mediator. He had never heard of Christ in this role and became very curious about it. This week we are going to show him the talk, The Mediator, by Boyd K. Packer so hopefully that will help him understand this concept better.
Our next investigator is G- who was a referral from The Festival of Lights. It was a pretty good lesson even though it was over Skype because his power was out. He liked what we were teaching, and he believed it all pretty well. At the end when we asked him to be baptized, he got all skittish and thought it was too big of a commitment. He said, “Oh, I’ll just read the Book and then when I know it’s true, then maybe I can be get baptized.” He didn’t even want us to come back for another lesson! Ugh! So we are back to one investigator.
We had seven lessons with less active members this week with varying degrees of acceptance. Some
that actually made it to church this week. Then some said, “I know my choices and I’ll be accountable to God for them when the time comes.” That is too bad. We’ll keep working with the area to see how many people we can get coming to sacrament meeting.
I got all the mail you guts sent!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! The cake was awesome, I got the
package on Friday, and all day something was just off. I just wasn’t feeling happy. I came home and remembered that about this time my family’s mail could come about now, so I’ll go check the mailbox. I opened it up to find your package with Dad’s German Chocolate cake –it was exactly what I needed right then! The cake was the perfect taste of home to keep me motivated and happy. I am eating my 10 pounds of chicken from Costco for lunch everyday and then 3-5 eggs for breakfast every morning. #swoll
I heard about President Cooke going up to the sacred grove a while back, but I didn't know he saw
Jordan there!! I keep seeing so many people get home, and so many people get their calls!! It's a bit
overwhelming, I must admit. I saw a fun picture of Jordan, Nate, Bryson, Ben, Brianne, and Corrine. Some of my friends from my sophomore year who are all finally reunited! So cool!
We did end up having to do more tracting than last week... But we did start doing the tracting game where you give the person who's doing the door approach a word and they have to work it into their approach. I think my best moment was working noodle into one. "The Book of Mormon can turn your faith from a limp noodle into a strong arm of faith" That's how it's done. Elder Wang and I are getting along well now. I guess he's just a little shy at first, but now he's super funny!!! I think my favorite saying of his is, "Who care?!" Whenever you say something you're excited about he'll say that. Like the Superbowl for example, I would be all excited when I heard the Seahawks were up, and he'd say, "Who care football?" I CARE FOOTBALL!!! GO HAWKS!
I LOVE YOU ALL!!
Elder Sorensen
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