Missionary Monday on Tuesday

February 7, 2010

"Hello!!!  Well we had a pretty good week this week! We are finding more and more people to teach, and have a lot that are progressing well! Right now we have 9 couples that we are teaching that aren't married.  We are planning an activity to help them see the blessings of an eternal family and to be married also. There is also a lot of interest in English classes and piano classes in our area, so we are going to start to have those this Saturday after the baptisms.  Hopefully we can have some people come to the baptisms also to see how they are. We are doing it together with the other ward next to us. So the other American Elder will do the English classes, while I "teach" piano.. haha!  No one here knows how (to play), and there's no one to play the piano, so they want to learn.  I can teach them the basics, and then they just have to practice if they want to play."

"Today we went to the zoo!!!!!!! We went with a recent convert and his 3 year old son.. and there is a part with 8 pumas.. and the little kid was walking by and all of them would just follow him and crouch trying to get him. hahaha!  He was scared.  But it was a pretty good zoo.  It had some good animals. It has been raining here a lot, but it helps to keep it a little more cool..  So one day this week, the member that we rent from, found out that we were looking for another apartment, so he comes up with the idea that we are going to move into his house, and they would move into our little thing.  They would fix it up so we would stay.  We didn't agree to anything but on Friday morning we are studying and everything, and see him and his family moving everything out of their house and onto their patio.  So I called the offices to ask for permission or something.  I didn't know what to do.  So the secretary asked president and apparently there have already been some problems there with it just being too friendly and the members coming in the apartment and just too friendly I guess. So the secretary called back and said that president already told us we had to look for an apartment a few weeks ago but we weren't here for that.  So he said that we couldn't move into  their house, "not today not tomorrow never".  So then, we had to have the awkward encounter with the members and tell them that we couldn't and we have to look for a new apartment and now it's just awkward every time we see him.  But hopefully we can find one a little better anyway!!!!!"

"But anyway... one of our couples that we are teaching told us they took a date at the civil building to get married on the 25th! So I hope she can get baptized the 26th! They come every week on their own and all. So we are praying that all goes well with the activity to get all of them going!!  Things are going great in the area, and we really do have a lot of great members that always help us to make the difference.  In three different times in meetings this week we talked about the importance of fellowshipping the investigators in the church and making them feel loved. In this sense, it kind of really is a "what would Jesus do" situation if investigators were to walk into His church for the first time or wanted to see what it was like. There have been a few investigators, and less actives that have said they felt that some of the members were cold to them, but we have to do our part and help them feel welcome and help them feel the spirit of the church and help them to want to come back!!"