February 9, 2009

How's it going, Family?
This weeks been interesting. Lots of good things have happened, and a few other interesting things have happened. ? Elder Rowe and I (right before he left) street-contacted a lady named April in one of the apartment complexes we cover. She was in a hurry, but gave us her apartment number and said we could come by. So Elder Christensen and I did, and her husband (or boyfriend) answered the door. We told him April said we could come by and we wanted to set up a time. He agreed to let us come by a few nights later, but no one was there when we actually came. So we went by the next day and he answered the door. He appoligized for not being there, but told us he wasn't interested and that we shouldn't bother coming back. I didn't know what else to do, so I handed him a Finding Faith in Christ pass along card, told him to call the number to get it, and started to walk away. And then I had the strong impression that I shouldn't give up yet-- he was interested and I needed to talk about families and the temple. (I guess I use that one a lot, huh? lol). So I told him about how Temples make it possible for families to be together forever, because of the seeling authority that Christ gave to Peter (Matthew 16). When I finished, I told him we would love to come by and share that message, but I understood he wasn't interested. I was going to leave again when he suddenly said, "actually, I am interested. Come back Tuesday at six o' clock." . . . Wow!
Angie, our most promising investigater didn't come to church on yesterday despite a really amazing lesson we had just the night before. We were wondering what was going on-- where was she? We left church after sacrement and I felt really strongly like we needed to go see Ramone, an investigater we've only taught once. That confused Elder Christensen because we had planned to see a less active family in one of our ward, to re-schedule a time with them. But we biked to Ramone's. It turns out that Ramone wasn't even home. But as we came into the appartment complex, Angie was on her way out and we talked to her for a bit. Then right after she left the Ward Mission Leader called and asked if we knew why Angie didn't make it to church-- which we did know because we had just talked to her.
Then we went to another familly. She had just gotten home before we got there and found that her husband had packed up and left while she was gone. We told her we were there to help her and her kids with whatever they needed. Our timing's been crazy this week. Crazy, huh? That just a couple of stories. The Holy Ghost is amazing. --Jason