Dear Mom, Dad, Lauren, and Ian,
Well, this week has been much better than past weeks!
Still got some tough stuff going on, but we finally found someone promising! We
unfortunately had to drop the girl that had a baptismal date, though. She just
plain isn't ready yet and isn't too pumped about seeing us either. Perhaps
another time.
But anyway…we met this man named Kelvin, who has been
fantastic since we met him! He's thoroughly studying the Book of Mormon and
always has awesome questions! He believes it, because he told us the other day
that he felt the Holy Spirit! That is probably the second or third time in my
almost 11 months that someone has tried describing what they felt instead of
just saying an unsure sounding ''good.'' Lol! But he's a really good guy; he's
always out on his porch reading a pamphlet of ours or the Book of Mormon when
we pass by his house. We also are working with him to stop smoking which he's
willing to do! He used to smoke a pack a day or so, but when we taught him the
Word of Wisdom we made a goal for him to smoke at the most 10 cigarettes a day.
Asking people to stop smoking right away is almost impossible out here so we
work slowly but with progress. When we
came back the next day, he said he smoked only 5! We're so happy for him! He
only needs to come to church though. He couldn't this week because he had to
rush his grandma to the hospital, nor the week after because it was Father's
Day here. He promised us he'd come this coming Sunday though. Crossed fingers!
Well, along with the good, there's something pretty
challenging that's keeping me busy too. My district is only my companion and I,
and two companionships of sisters in an area called Mi Hogar, which is split
into two; Mi Hogar A and B. To start, the sister in Mi Hogar B aren't getting
along too well and are pretty stressed out. :/ Even though Mi Hogar A are working well
together, they both have a bit of trouble finding things to do because they
have already worked in almost all of the area and are running out of people to
find. That isn't too good either because they have less than 2 progressing
investigators. I'm trying to give them some ideas on what they can do to keep
themselves busy and while they take the ideas, they're just a little
discouraged. So, I'll be working with some Sister Training Leaders in my Zone
to see how we can help them out. Those leaders would be the ones doing exchanges
since I won't be able to. Haha! But it's tough being in charge of a district
that you can only call but not be able to go work with them (because elders and
sisters cannot work/proselyte together). We'll see what happens this coming
week.
Well, that's this past week summed up. I also want to
thank you guys and Tita Jona and her family, and Tita Jackie, and Mama for
sending me my birthday packages and money! The treats were yummy! I shared them
with my companion as well, so don't worry! ^_^ I'll write next week with more
progress on Kelvin and my district! Love you and miss you all!! Thanks for
everything! All your support and love helps me out so much! :)
-Elder Froude
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| Yummy breakfast that I made! |
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