- We had a baptism on Saturday, February 22, 2013 for Evelyn. She is a very strong investigator we have been teaching for the last couple months.
- The game is too easy. We have been receiving referrals nonstop for the last week, and so we have been calling missionary work "the game" for now.
- We received transfers on the 22nd as well. Staying here for now! This will make 4 1/2 months for me, and 7+ months for Ormsby at the end of this transfer.
- I blessed a car!
Hey guys. This week was awesome and crazy!
We
basically went on a rampage to see all the members because Elder Ormsby
was sure that he was moving this week, but we found out he is still
staying here. That was fun. We made cookies for the members and now they
are dying for the recipe so they can cook them themselves.
We made a
"contract" with one of the members that if they could read all of Ether
and Moroni by the end of the transfer, we would make cookies for them.
They won, so they got like 20 cookies, and now they are spoiled out of
their minds! always want more more more, haha. :D just kidding I love
that family. (martha)
So like I said,
Evelyn got baptized this week. She came back on Wednesday and asked if
she could still be baptized this week, and so we asked our district
leader, Elder Stewart, and he said it was OK. So we got everything
ready, had her interviewed, and she got baptized by Elder Ormsby and I
confirmed her on Sunday. It was pretty great! She now wants to learn
English so she can understand us better. She still has a strong desire
to learn.
Okay,
I said "The game is too easy". Let me explain. The game is "missionary
work" and right now, it is just way too easy. The way you win the "game"
is to figure out how to work with the members to get referrals from
them. These are some of the reasons why the game is too easy right now:
1. Received an investigator from a less active family that we met with last week, Felicia.
2.
Received an investigator from a member that just became active that had
not had her child baptized, but is older than 8 so we need to teach
her.
3. After the baptism, we found out that Evelyn's daughter wasn't baptized and she wants to learn.
4.
Two people came to church that we didn't ever expect to come to church.
One was from an area that has been less active for a very long time, and
now wants her child to be baptized. The other was a former investigator
that was just begging us to have us baptize her.
5. This all
happened within about 2-3 days. We were just so blown out of our minds
that so many people want us to come over. Every single time that
somebody came to us to ask us if we could teach so-and-so, Elder Ormsby
and I would just look at each other and say "the game is too easy" so
that has been our phrase of the week.
But obviously the
Lord has been preparing these people for a while now, and so we
definitely can't take the credit for everything. I am being blessed now,
but we will see what the Lord has in store for me later on :)
One
last thing is Bujang, the father-in-law of my recent convert, Preston,
invited us over for dinner on Friday. So when we got there, there was a
ton of food! and so we asked what the reason for the dinner was. He told
us in English "I want you to bless my new car. How do we bless it?"
And we are
like...uhhh... pray for it? and he says "ou, ok. Vincent, I want you to
pray for it, okay?" so...I blessed his new car! Haha. :D :D It was the
best.
and that was my week! Yup. How are all of you doing? :)
Love,
Elder Vincent
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