Jeez! Can this area get any more investigators and work for less-actives? They seem to be coming in a snowball effect. More and more just keep coming and it is great in some ways, but in others it isn't because we just don't have time for all of them in one day. We got a guy name Edward from the Mandarian missionaries and from what Elder Wiser could tell me is that he is not too promising, but he still wants to learn. We did splits with the Mandarian missionaries so that is why Wiser knows more about it than I do. I went with Elder Olson to the Foot Hills Stake to help him interview this investigator down there with President because she did a couple of serious things that have to be brought up with President. I played with this little kid while they were interviewing this lady and we had fun playing a bit of soccer. I have kinda came to some conclusion. I am really good with relating to kids and gaining their trust. This is one of my strengths that I have realized. Once you gain the kids trust, the parents can see that their kids like the missionaries and like to get to know us too.
Anywho, this week was mostly less-active work and lost sheep. We are almost done with the list that the ward has given us. But the work won't stop there because the ward council keeps giving us names to go visit and get to know. I like it because every time we did this with other ward council, they didn't really give us any names and we had to do like a whole week of like tracting and finding and you guys already know my feelings on tracting and the such. If the ward and the missionaries work together, it work! But it takes trust so that is the price of that.
Frank and Annie are still progressing and we are meeting with them weekly still. Cade wants to wait till President Stephans comes back to start teaching him. We heard President Stephans will come back around the end of this week. We are waiting to hear from him to begin setting up plans to teach Cade.
Something I have been doing this past week is pretty interesting to me on how much it works. It has been a while since I have been reading the Book of Mormon because of my love of Christian books and that book that you guys sent at Christmas time for me. But I decided to try reading the Book of Mormon again, but I have a tough time remembering certain things that I read and what is on the page I just read. So what I did is get a new Book of Mormon for myself and what I have been doing is writing down by verses that stick out to me what kinda happens and what I learned from it. Now when I look back through the Book of Mormon, I know what I am reading and the background of it. It is also a good source for dinner messages. Call it notes on the side, but I call it my own commentary of the verses I highlight. I love doing it on my spare time.
We don't really keep tract of our proselyting hours. We just focus on how we can help the ward and what works best. I don't really like to keep tract. I mean sure, I can keep tract and I do write down our key indicators, but I don't like to base my work on numbers.
That is pretty cool that BYU Idaho school starts then. But I was kinda thinking I wanted to go to UVU. It just been on my mind.
Well, that is all I got to say for this week. Around next week it will be close to my 18th month mark. Love you all and take care!
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