Week of Nov 21

I was remiss in my blogging duties last week.  So here comes two weeks worth of letters.

 Letter dated 11-14-2011

I am sorry to hear about Grandpa, but I know that he will be O.K. and that he will make it through this and I know that he will do just fine.  I have survived through this first transfer and am excited for this next one.  It is a short one, only five weeks, because it would be a little too close to Christmas for the missionaries changing areas and the ones going home.  Also President Nilsen is apparently going to be keeping people in areas longer so I could be here for a little while.  Things are going a little slow right now, but I am not letting it get me down.  We are starting to do service as a mission for our members and our investigators during the day at the less productive hours of the day and I am noticing that the members are growing in there trust in us and are very thankful for what we do, (it also helps when you take their leaf rakes and they can't do it on their own because of it.  I am loving the work, but not much has changed in this last week with our investigators, but our ward mission leader is going out of town and we will finally be able to bet into the correlation meeting with the Bishop this next week.  I like Emoticons ( this one is funny).  Any way, my time is getting short but I am having a great time out here and I am loving the people more each day.  Also on a great note I worked on pottery today!   It was a bit difficult at first, but I think I am getting the hang of it.

 

Anyway, I need to go, but I will be sure to send more info next week.  Love you all.

And now the letter form today 11/21

This past week has been a good week.  One of our investigators, Josh, has a baptismal date for Dec. 10th and he is very excited about it.  He attended priesthood for the first time this week and I was afraid that it would scare him away because the lesson was on the Millennium and we got into a lot of speculation about what is going to happen.  Thankfully when we went to his house today to work on pottery, his wife, who is a member, had more questions for us then he did.  Also on Sunday we had a non-member in our Gospel principles class who had shown up for the primary program that her friend invited her to come to.  The lesson happened to be on "The Post Mortal World" which is usually not the best topic for a first time exposure to the church.  Thankfully the lesson ended with time to spare and we started talking about Thanksgiving and about gratitude and I watched as she opened up a bit more as the discussion went on.  I am not sure about what is happening with one of our investigators.  She is a nice old lady who was very open to hearing about Jesus and when she met Elder Turner she fell in love with him, we were on exchanges when we met her.  About three weeks ago, she left town and said we could call her the next week to set up an appointment, but we have not been able to get hold of her and when we drop by her house, it does not look like any one is home.  Another one of our investigators, the lady who taught us the Plan of Salvation, we thought had fallen off the map we were able to get hold of her and we have an appointment set up for the second. overall this week has been a good week.  I will get you more info on members next week, since my time is about up.  I love you all and I hope that all goes well at home.

 

Love,

Elder Rawlings