so this has been the most.... how can i
say it... unproductive week i have had in the mission so far. or at
least i havent been able to see the results yet and i feel like im
treading water.
Wait, Before i continue thanks everyone for the
birthday wishes. I had a great pday birthday. or in otherwords i got to
rest for my birthday because it landed one our weekly preparation day.
we went and had lunch, watched church movies and then proselyted. not to
bad, oh and then missionary sleep over with the zone leaders because we
had multizone conference the next day. fun stuff. (elisa i did get your
email)
this week however has been the hotest week we have
had in the mission, or at least it seems that way its been around 38 -
40 degrees celcieus (i dont know what that is in faraheit but yea). its
been a little warmer, haha, so we asked the office to help us out. they
reallly came through this week with some new electric fans for out
cement home. they saved us this sunday when we had our meetings.
this week we started our third hour in church. we
didnt have a third hour before becasue we didnt have the people to do it
before. so a lot of our week has been geared towards that goal. this
week only 25 people showed up... the meetings went great but i have no
idea why we lost half our family group. i have been so excited these
last few weeks because i have beginning to see a change the lives of the
people we are helping... but there is oposicion in all things. we have a
baptism planned for the end of this week, of a girl from a family that
is reactivating. they are great people and they have come to chruch
every week, but somethign happened yesterday. i hope all goes well this
weekend.
at the same time, with all of the training and
traveling we have been doing, both on our part and on behalf of the
members we havent had a whole lot of time to teach. i feel like we have
reallly lost contact with a lot of our investigators. we have a few
people who are progressing fantasticallly, but others that i feel like
we have failed them this week.
my companion, at the same time, has been in zombie
mode. not quite sure how to wake him out of it and get the work moving
again. I only have 2 weeks left in morrope and i cant leave without
feeling that i left them in good hands. he is a great companion but he
is old in terms of the mission. i would like to leave morrope with the
highest asistance that they have had. i will need your prayers this
week. we have hit a low this week, but that means we are about to hit a
high here soon. that is usually how things work.
we have done a lot i guess, just it doesnt show in
our reports, nor in any of the goals we set. and i havent seen any of
the fruits yet.
so this week, (despite being
relatively unproductive ) we have had a few spiritual experiences. one
of wich i would like to share breifly.
we are teaching a woman named santos. she was a
contact i had while traveling with my comp. we hopped on a combi (its
like a 15 pasenger van, but for public transport), and took a seat in
the back. as we were walking to the back i noticed her watching us. when
the combi starting going my companion fell asleep and left me to sit
and think on my own. an impresion came to mind to talk to this woman,
because i had set the goal to improve in talking to everyone. i wasnt
sure how to start the conversation, but came to my mind the
scripture in D&C about opening your mouth and having it filled. i
asked her where she was heading, that was a really dumb question....
she was goign to the same place i was... morrope, but she smiled and
responded morrope of course. I asked her if she lived there or was jsut
traveling.... and from there we started our conversation, eventually she
asked us what we do as missionaries, i responded that we share a
message about christ, and she then INVITED us to her house to share our
message. i asked her for her address (which i wrote down completely
wrong, but we found the house anyways) and later that week visited her
in her house.
this week we gave her a book of mormon, i dont
think i have ever seen anyone so happy to receive a book of mormon and
accept the challenge to read it. we will be visiting her tuesday this
week... tomorrow... to see if she has read.
so this week hasnt been terrible, our numbers are
low, but i know the lord is hellping us. we have been rejected many
times but the work is still going forth.
im out of time. love you all
Always turn outward and keep smiling,
Love,
Elder Bunker
No comments:
Post a Comment