Well this week literally flew by. We had a good week but we dropped a lot of our investigators. Usually what happens is that we contact someone, talk about our message and hopefully say a prayer with them and set up another appointment. Then they are considered a "new investigator". Doing that has been different because it isn't how my trainer worked but I like it because we have days filled with appointments. A lot of the time the people aren't home but we can usually meet someone that lives in there house or something. So once we have gone by the people a few times and they don't show any more interest we "drop" them. Meaning we put there name in the area book, but don't go by anymore, until we fill like we need to, or other missionaries come to the area. So this week was a drop week since the last couple of weeks we have just been contacting and meeting tons of people. So it was kind of sad because we dropped some people that had baptismal dates. So basically, not the most successful week according to numbers, but we found some people that seem slightly solid. The family that we have been teaching still seems interested and I always enjoy going over there and teaching them. It is definitely going to take patience, but they are reading the Book of Mormon and praying as a family, so I have faith that they will have a change of heart.
Yesterday we had a lesson with one of our investigators. His name is Jesus and he is dating/living with a member. They literally are the nicest couple and I love going over there. My companion loves soccer so the last couple of times that we went over they told us they are going to get us some jerseys. So last night they brought down these jerseys and said they are going to put our names and numbers on the back. They are so wonderful and I am excited to have an authentic mexican jersey to bring home.
This past week we also had something sad happened. We went over to one of our investigators houses and found out she had moved. We had kind of expected it because her living situation wasn't the best, but it was still sad because she hasn't called us and her phone isn't working so we don't know where she is to send the missionaries over. She really needed the gospel. I think I will always wonder about her and what happened with her.
Yesterday was fast sunday and it was wonderful! We had this cute little old man get up and bare his testimony. He is swedish and has learned spanish from reading preach my gospel and reading the Book of Mormon in Spanish. So he gets up and relates the gospel to a chicken and how a little chick in the egg will die if someone opens the egg for it. They have to peck through and do it themselves to gain the strength to live. It's like that with the gospel, we can't make people get baptized or live the commandments, they have to do it themselves to gain the strength to endure to the end. I though it was such a good analogy with missionary work. Sometimes I wish I could just make people understand the importance of it, but we can't, we have to teach them and invite them and they have to do the changes themselves.
Next week is transfers. I am pretty sure I will be staying her in Newberry Park with Hermana Tippetts, at least that is what I hope. she has taught me so much about missionary work.
Well I love it here, it is definitely getting colder though, I have had to wear a jacket the last couple of nights, still I just have to think it could be ALOT colder! I can't believe it's already November!
Les Amo Muchisisismo!!
Hermana Clark
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