So this week was nuts. We had exchanges with he ZL's which were super fun. We also found a dope new person to teach. And it was also conference this week!
So exchanges were super fun. I got to be in a trio for a day for my first time. It was quite fun actually. We got to go to mutual and play gator ball with the youth that night and we also had some good lessons and found some people. Going tracting in a trio is super fun for some reason.
We also met a new guy named Tony this week. So we were at the gas station filling up gas when the guy next to us says something about us getting cars now. We said that ya they give us cars, then he said "back in Utah they all have bikes. Huh. You know, I always wanted to be a Mormon. My wife wouldn't let me though." We were like "wait, what?" Then he said "actually, I'm not married to her anymore. Can I become a Mormon?" So ya we are going to meet with him this week and hopefully set a baptismal goal with him. What a miracle.
The best part of the week has to be conference, though. General conference as a missionary is hype. We get to chill with the boys for 8 hours and get personal revelation. It was awesome. Also, how about that cliffhanger huh? What's going on next conference?
I guess I'll end with a funny story. This week at service I was talking to this guy and he asked me to guess how old he was. I said 60. Turns out he's going to turn 60 in a month, I think he though I was going to say he looked younger than that haha. Anyway, I decide to ask him how old he thinks I am. He guessed 34. I'm 19. Then 10 minutes later a guy was saying something about college or something to us and a lady told him we were too young to be in college. We said we were 19 and then she was like oh I thought they were like 16. So I don't know how old I look. Either 34 or 16.
Anyway, that's all for this week. Make sure to tune in next week for another email.
October 14
Honestly this week has been the most normal week ever. It's been fun and pretty eventful, but nothing that would be too interesting for y'alls. I guess some of the most interesting things from this week would be that we started working with an excommunicated member to help her work towards coming back, we also became a trio for a day, and we also dealt with a lot of anti-latter-day saint people. (Don't really know the correct way to say that.)
I'll start with the bad stuff. There seems to be a general theme every area I go. There's some problem that gets in our way everywhere I serve. Here the problem has been that people keep getting into stuff against our church. Two different solid people stopped meeting with us this week because their friend and their pastor told them some false things about the Book of Mormon and scared them away. One guy reached out to us for the sole reason of telling us how we are wrong, to which I gave a very polite response to each of his questions. He then ignored my answer and moved onto some other problem he had with us. Pretty typical. We deal with people like this every week. Sad, but what can you do? People have their agency. I guess "it must needs be that there is an opposition in all things."
This week we had a cool experience where we stopped by a part-member family and found out that the wife was actually excommunicated years ago. She had watched conference and loved it. She still has a testimony of the church, and we were able to get her to want to come back. She is going to meet with bishop and set a day to be rebaptized. It's great to see people be able to go through hardships and come out stronger on the other side. I feel like she has learned a lot from this and that she will be a super beneficial member of the ward when she returns.
The last fun thing about this week was being in a trio. There is a missionary who is getting trained by two zone leaders, and the zone leaders had a leadership meeting that he couldn't go to. So he joined us for the day. It was fun knocking doors with three of us. That's an interesting experience in itself. We also got to help with his training a little. Hopefully I didn't rub off on him too much though, because that would have been detrimental to his growth as a missionary haha. It was great to be able to get to know him better.
Well I hope this has at least been interesting. Maybe a little too realistic, but I think that's a good thing. Not always rainbows and butterflies. Most of the time it is, though. And I think I'm at the point where I'm happy and content even when things do go as planned. That's what the gospel can do for you I guess.
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