Dear Family and Such People
Mom, Elder Aguila says thanks for the nuts from Alpine.
Some good news, some normal news, and bad news. M is still in contact with her member friends,
but she dropped us. Her friend suspects that the pressure from family,
including the fact that her sister in law became a minister for another church,
and that she might have gotten into anti information. Well, it happens
sometimes. When her stress normalizes, it might be possible for us to meet with
her again. *Sigh*, life happens.
But, in other great news, we met a non-member who is married
to a less active member in our ward. V is her name, and she accepted our
message with open arms. She said at one
time, "you all came at the right time, and I'm looking for a change in my
life." She has a baptism date for the 27th of February. PRAY that she
stays strong and faithful even as opposition that may arise, and that we will
be able to meet with her husband and reactivate him. We came to meet her with
her home teacher, and we didn't catch the husband at home.
I bought a Gyro in a restaurant in the area. Anybody that
knows my trip to New York knows that I love authentic Gyros. It was better than
the one that I had in Grand Central Station, but not better than the street
venders. Much more expensive though.
Otherwise the week was a fairly normal for my mission. I was
able to exchange with Elder Mackay, and we learned that we had a lot of similar
interests before the mission. We enjoyed good lessons, and scaring away little
dogs and deer. There are plenty of deer over there. I grabbed a little cat's
tail and pulled it, and it wasn't too happy. Interestingly enough, generally
cats don't mind if you pull them up by the tail a little bit, but maybe kittens
do. It didn't help my point that I said it wouldn't mind to Elder Mackay, and
then it did in fact mind.
And as the subject suggested, I finally got a new IPad
screen. It took a couple of days, but I was glad that it finally was done. I
was pretty surprised though, because it cost a lot more that I would have expected.
1.5 hundred dollars. Fewf! Remind me not to drop my IPad ever again. I took my
notes for the World-Wide missionary broadcast on pen and paper, because I
didn't have my IPad back. But then later I just hand typed it into my gospel
library app. That took some time, but was worth it.
The broadcast talked a good amount about different
principles that we should follow as a missionary. Elder Anderson and Elder Oaks
spoke to us, in addition to other people.
Questions
and Answers
Have you used the
survey again this week, and has continued to help in getting to know the
people?
A little bit this week. We haven't had quite as much success
as was promised us, but we haven't asked too many people to take it either.
Are you getting any
rain and storms headed from the west as we've had them?
Rain, rain, never came, might come by another day.
How are A and M?
They've been having some medical concerns, so we weren't
able to meet this week.
How is M in the quest
to help her be baptized?
Faltering. We might have to pass her along in the future, if
she allows us.
How has the Lord's
Spirit guided you this week?
You always need guidance during meetings. It was helpful to
have it on Wednesday. I liked what they taught that when we ask who people know
that might be interested; we ask also, who else do you know?
l love you all. Unless I don't. And that is because I
haven't met you yet. J
-Elder Hall
Texas San Antonio Mission
No comments:
Post a Comment