Hey everybody!
Happy Monday! This week I lost my agenda so we´ll see how
well I remember everything that happened. That was really awful actually, we
had a bunch of references written in it. Pero, bueeeeno. . .
Actually some of our best investigators right now we met at
that Filipino activity. We are teaching a family of 4, father, mother, son, cousin. And
they are super cool! They have come to church twice already! It´s a little hard
teaching them, it´s a crazy mix of English and Spanish and Tagalog (them
speaking Tagalog, not us), but they are doing really well. We talked about
baptism with them and gave them calendars and invited them to pray about a date
for their baptism, but I´m not sure they really understood. We´ll have to
go over the calendars again this week. They also feed us every time we come
over. :)
This ward is swimming in Filipinos. I´ve decided it would be
worth my time to learn Tagalog. New personal goal. Yesterday we passed by a
less active member who is also Filipino. She sounds like she wants to go back
to church and her husband is not a member, so there is a potential investigator
there as well. Plus the 6 other Filipinos who live in her house.
This week was a little rougher on lessons. We´ve lost
contact with Wilmer and with Gilma. It´s too bad, they both had a lot of
potential, but it looks like they aren´t interested anymore. So we are on the
look again. It´s hard to keep a balance. I feel like one week we teach a lot
and the next we search a lot. I guess when we have a lot of lessons we get a
little lax on contacting and finding. Something to work on there.
We are continuing to work with Juan Carlos and with his
not-wife more. We had a
good lesson on Friday, I think, where he kind of opened up. He said he didn´t
understand too much when we have read together, which is a valid point. We said
that as he reads he will understand more and that of course we are always happy
to answer questions and help to understand. He talked about how he wants to repent basically, to stop falling in mistakes and we told him that this was
the way, little by little, reading, praying and going to church. I´ve felt like
such a broken record this week, read, pray, go to church, over and over and over.
But that is what people have to do to progress, to get a testimony and to make
changes in their lives. Sometimes it´s frustrating when they just don´t do it.
We taught Beto this week. His wife is a member and he has met with the
missionaries for about a year already, but we found out this week that he has
never read in the Book of Mormon and that he hardly prays, so we basically have
to treat him like a new investigator, even though we were planning on setting a
baptismal date with him. It´s a bit sad.
We haven´t seen Rania this week, so I´m not really sure how
she´s doing. Thank you for your prayers for her though. I know it will help.
We still live the 4 elders together. It gets a little
crowded sometimes, mostly in the kitchen. I´m not district leader anymore but
with live with him. Actually I haven´t been DL for a couple transfers.
School
still hasn´t started here, but people are starting to come back from vacations,
so that´s good. Attendance in church has been going up the past couple of
weeks.
Well, can´t think of anything else for this week. I hope
everyone is doing well and you get back in the habit of school quickly. You´ll have to let me know how your classes go. Take care everyone! I love you all!
Thanks for everything!
Elder Cousins
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