It does not feel like it has already been a week. It has gone by so fast I am having trouble remembering what happened.
Well Wednesday was a pretty rough day, The day before Sister Christensen and I were talking about how happy I am. (She sometimes gets annoyed about how happy I am. I'm not really sure how I am supposed to fix that.) Anyway Sister Christensen said she felt like she has never really seen me grumpy before. When she said that had a bit of a foreboding feeling and just knew that I would not have a good day the next day. Which was weird because we had a day full of set appointments with investigators and recent converts. The best days! During study one of our investigators called and cancelled, after lunch one investigator called and dropped us, then were were driving around trying to find some less actives and our recent convert called and cancelled. All and all I had a really grumpy day. I was pretty heartbroken about our investigator who dropped us. I absolutely loved him and I just knew that the gospel would help him in his life. (Joe was the one who dropped us. He just couldn't give up the catholic church.) Well it was a pretty rotten day until the last person called and cancelled and we were lost in fallbrook (a super spread out place) absolutely no one was home. Then it got just too ridiculous and we just had to laugh. I already tried the crying thing earlier. It's better to laugh. Also the fact is we still had a pretty good day because all of our evening appointments held up and we had some really good lessons.
Thursday we had zone conference. It was all about using the book of mormon to resolve concerns and helping the investigator resolve their own concerns by using the book of mormon. It was just so cool and I had so much fun being around other missionaries, It is so nice to see their skill and to feel their testimonies. Also!!!! My dear beloved sister Bean sent me an extra Thomas Guide!! Oh my goodness. It was literally the best thing ever. We have been working off of an old ratty photocopy of a map that is mostly only our family ward. I love having a Thomas Guide. I know heavenly father loves me because he sent me a Thomas Guide.
Friday Sister Christensen went to the doctor. We were both super nervous to know what the problem was with her knees. The doctor told us it was just her anatomy and that i was something he could not fix with surgery. she would just have to live with it. That was a really heavy blow. and after her mission I think she should go and get second opinions, but at least now she can stay on her mission. And she is such a trouper. After that she really has not mentioned the pain even though I'm sure she still has it.
Saturday we went to Zone leader council. Elder Kearon was there and talked to us about building our faith and basically just being great faithful missionaries. He told us over and over- The mission is doing really well. we are doing really well, but it is never going to be good enough. There are always more ways we can improve. We also had a brother come who does public relations for the church come and talk to us. He told us a little about what is going on with Mit Romney and how we are going to get a lot of opposition from people. He read us the headlines for that day alone and it was all about how Him being a Mormon was awful and would basically ruin the country. They were mentioning things about his garments and him being a bishop. It was crazy because that was the first time we had really heard that stuff. Anyway we did trainings on how to react when we get pretty antagonistic people come up to us. He said at those time we are not supposed to be missionaries. We do not invite them to learn more (unless directed to by the spirit). We are public relations specialists. We correct their misconceptions in short impactful sentences and that is it. we build relationships but nothing more. I will say it was really hard for a room full of zone leaders to accept the fact that they were not to invite them to learn more or come to church. We didn't really know how to handle it. I'm a little nervous for the coming months I will be on my mission this whole election year and I'm sure I am going to get a lot of negative feedback...Pray for me.
Anyway Sunday and Monday were good. we had some nice lessons and that was really exciting. We had a lesson with a man in our apartment complex and that was a bit of a let down. I'll be honest it wasn't the best on our part but we thought we were ending on a good note. When we asked if we could come back to teach more, he said he had to ask his mom first. (this was a 30 year old navy officer and his mom was back in Texas) She is hard core baptist and that was a bit of a let down. Especially because we spent the whole lessons talking about how important families were- It wasn't like we could then turn around and say "don't worry about what your mom thinks. She doesn't matter" You just can't say that, but I wanted to. Oh well, I believe in miracles- maybe he will call us.
Well I hope everyone has a great week. I love you and pray for you all the time.
Sister Allred
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