Hello!
THis week was amazing. Its just like the grand ol times! Elder Labrum and I are just having a ball.
The deal with this area is 2 missionaries came into this area and shotgunned it. Like the area was white washed and these 2 were put in. They didnt last very long and now both of them are home with honorable releases.
So, Last friday and saturday were a little rough and getting used to the area and people. Elder labrum has only been here 2 weeks and barely knows the area. And so we turned to the area book to try and find a starting point and the area book was destroyed when the apartment flooded about a month ago and was never restarted. So Elder Labrum and I are legit starting from complete scratch. However this week got better starting on Sunday. As soon as I got to church I just felt loved. SO many people came up to me and started tlaking to me and wanting to know about me. At sacrament meeting we couldnt sit with any investigators becuase they were already with ward members! this ward is so passionate about missionary work and its just amazing. They were a huge help in helping us find investigators houses and making sure no one was forgotten. I was the first speaker in sacrament meeting and I was asked to bear my testimony. It went pretty well to my knowledge because they didnt laugh or anything so i think that is good.
After sacrament we had a women come up to us and asked to take the lessons and this is every missionaries dream. So we started taking down her information and we realized she knew quite a bit. Now fast forward to Monday afternoon. We went to teach Donna (that is her name) and as soon as we sat down to start teaching we knew she was golden. She told us she had already read all of JSH and 1 Nephi twice. She started 1 nephi for the third time earlier that day because she wants to understand the book of 1 nephi before she moves on. We tried teaching her the first lesson and she already knew everything. She had met missionaries from Vermont on facebook and had already learned a ton about the church. She is awesome. So we extended for baptism and her date is March 17th.
We have a ton more investigators we are teaching and its a way good pool. If everything goes perfectly we will have weekly baptisms all of March and as of now the start of April. So this area has a ton of potential we are really excited about. At this point we are just trying to make sure no one is forgotten or lost and we dont lose investigators.
Big shout out to now Sister Monson and Elder Broberg and their respective mission calls!
Love you all lots,
Elder gsack
Daily pictures before we go out
random kids on the street that wanted to take a picture
us on the jeepnee earlier this morning
Our apartment
Investigators Maria isabel and Mary jane, they will be baptized at any time just waiting for their moms approval
Us messing around with kids in the street... its harder then it looks
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