Week 2

Oh my gosh, that is so awesome that Truman was ordained to an Elder This week. I was doing the count down in my head, and he should be just leaving his training when i come home from my mission. Which is good for you mom because that means you are only going to have to go like 3-4 months from when he leaves to when i get home, but that kind of stinks for me because i wont be able to see him for like 4 years (in total) Lame Sauce, but i am super excited for him. Make sure to make him go through the temple all the time, i wish that i had done it more than i did before i headed out here.

So speaking of being trunky haha, could you find out for me the day that classes start at MCC, because i am going to see my new mission president in a couple days, and i am going to have to talk to him about setting up an official end day, because the mission wants to buy my plane tickets within the next month or so, so that they can get them alot cheaper.

So this week, things have started to get alot better. Granted there is still a couple of combative members here, but as to the bishopric, and other ward and stake leaders, they are trusting me alot more now than they did last week. There was one member who got really mad at me this sunday, because the elders that were here before me would meet up with them every single day, and spend a couple of hours together, and on sunday they had a big freak out on me about how i am not doing my job like i should be because i havent been visiting them. And man they were yelling for like a half hour about that. And i am not going to lie, i didnt get mad at the bishop, or the ward mission leader, but i got mad with that person, up to the point where i just refused to open my mouth because i knew that something not nice was going to leave, so i just shut up, and let my companion talk. 

 

But there was a really bright spot about that, when they where done ``telling me how to be a missionary¨¨ the 1st counselor called me into his office and apologized for what happened and talked about how he knew that i didnt have to put up with all the garbage that the ward has been throwing at me lately, and thanked me for all of the hard work that i am doing, and for the example that i am giving the ward. He also told me about an activity that we are going to have this week, and he asked me to talk in it so that i can get the members more pumped up to do missionary work, and to work with us. He also gave us a reference.

But man i havent found myself praying for so much patience since i was with that companion that punched me hahahahaha (P.s. i dont remember if i told you that story. Maybe when i get home i will.)

This week was actually a really awesome one for me and my companion, we spent pretty much all week long looking for new people to teach, asking for references from the members, and contacting the ones we receive right away. And wow we have been finding some awesome people.

There was one person who we contacted that was super awesome. (the 1st councilor gave us the reference)(P.s. i freaking love that man, he is one of the few members who didnt start out against me haha) But anyway we went to this womans house, and we started talking to her, and she told me ``You know i did really like the mormon church, until i started to read to book of mormon, i read it almost all the way through, and i realized that it doesnt talk about anything except for Joseph smith´´ And wow i was blunt with her, i responded ``Let me get this straight, you dont like the Book of Mormon, because it just talks about Jose Smith`` 

``Yes. that is correct´´

``Do you still have a copy of the Book, here in your house, i want to show you something´´ 

she then went and brought her book of mormon.

We then taught her that the book didnt even talk about Joseph Smith at all except for in the introduction, and that it only talked about Christ, but she didnt believe us.

So i then said ``Ok so lets play a little game, open up the Book of Mormon to any random page. And lets count  how many time the name Joseph Smith comes up´´

She then opened a page, and noticed that it didnt show up even once. And said ´´Well i just picked a bad page´´

I then responded ´´Then pick another one`` 

Once again she was disappointed to see that his name didnt come up even once.

We then said ´´Ok now open up the book, and see how many times you see the word Jesus Christ, Lord,  Savior, Redeemer,  God, or any other word related with him.

she then opened a page and started counting ´´1,2,3,4,5,6,7...´´ (She picked a real good page hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha)

My companion then shared an awesome scripture but i dont remember what the reference is, or what it is like in spanish but it says something like ´´We talk about Christ, we rejoice about Christ, and we write about Christ....´´

And we both bore super strong testimonies about how the Book of Mormon is another Testament of Jesus Christ. And how if we base our lives in the teaching that are found in that book, that we will never fall away from the path that leads to eternal life.

Welp. I gots to go. I love you all. Keep me posted!