Hey, I dont have a lot of time but i'll include the good parts of the week,
We tracted this week and we found whole bunches of people. There is some student housing in our area in one of our apartment complexes, and we found 3 people this week that were ready and willing to visit with us. tracting has been so ineffective in the past but holy cow, the Lord prepared so many people for us to find. We also filled up on lessons this week, which was totally out of the blue, we thought we would struggle to get 8 lessons for the week but miraculously we had 7 lessons plan themselves on Sunday alone. One of our investigators even came to church without even being asked. He just showed up! We will probably talk about baptism with him the next time we meet with him.
We also spoke at a couple wards yesterday. We were each planned to speak at different wards along with a high councilor, and so i spoke at our first assignment at 9, but when we arrived at the 1 oclock assignemnt the high counsilor wasnt there, so the bishop asked me to speak again. then as elder collins started his talk the high counsilor walked in, and so elder collins ended his talk early so the other guy could speak. Elder Collins laughed at me afterwards because I spoke the most in the ward that i wasnt even assigned to speak in at all. anywho, it gave us a good laugh.
we're planning on going golfing today. We went last week and I found out i am quite possibly the worst golfer in the history of golfdom. it's fun though, I was consistenly trippling the par. Hopefully today goes better.
Lvoe you all
Elder Wright,
Monday, May 17, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
Blessings to the max!
hello everyone,
Not much new in Draper. We had a couple really great experiences this last week, we havent been teaching very much, just because everyone is so busy. We have been able to find more investigators this week though, which will hopefully help us teach more lessons in the future. We decided to go tracting saturday afternoon which is usually not very productive, but we didnt have anything else to do. We knocked on this girls's door and she seemed sort of interested and told us to come back the next day. We needed someone to come with us, and we tried calling a couple people but nobody could come (mothers day). We happened to see this guy at church who lives in the same area as the appointment and asked him to come along. He came and it turns out they shared similar interests in horses, and she needed to find a place to keep her horse, and he happened to have an extra space available for her. It was amazing to see the small and simple things that can bring about great things. We will teach her again today and hopefully we can extend her a baptisimal date, but we might have to work on helping her get married to her boyfriend first before she can. She is very humble and willing to accept the gospel. One of my only experiences that I have had tracting, and it is such a blessing, especially when we needed more people to teach right now.
One of our other investigators actually told us during one of our lessons 'you know, i've been talking about baptism for a long time, and i think i should just stop talking about it and just do it' He's going to be baptized on the 29th! blessings to the max!
I love you all, happy mothers day
Elder Wright
Not much new in Draper. We had a couple really great experiences this last week, we havent been teaching very much, just because everyone is so busy. We have been able to find more investigators this week though, which will hopefully help us teach more lessons in the future. We decided to go tracting saturday afternoon which is usually not very productive, but we didnt have anything else to do. We knocked on this girls's door and she seemed sort of interested and told us to come back the next day. We needed someone to come with us, and we tried calling a couple people but nobody could come (mothers day). We happened to see this guy at church who lives in the same area as the appointment and asked him to come along. He came and it turns out they shared similar interests in horses, and she needed to find a place to keep her horse, and he happened to have an extra space available for her. It was amazing to see the small and simple things that can bring about great things. We will teach her again today and hopefully we can extend her a baptisimal date, but we might have to work on helping her get married to her boyfriend first before she can. She is very humble and willing to accept the gospel. One of my only experiences that I have had tracting, and it is such a blessing, especially when we needed more people to teach right now.
One of our other investigators actually told us during one of our lessons 'you know, i've been talking about baptism for a long time, and i think i should just stop talking about it and just do it' He's going to be baptized on the 29th! blessings to the max!
I love you all, happy mothers day
Elder Wright
Monday, May 3, 2010
He responded by pulling all the plugs out at once
Hey everyone,
Not a whole lot going on this week. I got this huge fever early this week from the wind and the cold, which put us out of commission for a couple of days. It was really cold all week long and it seemed to be snowing a little every day, which made it really hard to ride bikes, especially after being sick. We are trying to improve how many lessons we are teaching but we need to increase our teaching pool first.
Elder Collins is having a tough time as a district leader, and I'm trying to help as much as I can but we just have some struggling elders in our district. We had some pretty harsh words spoken in our apartment last night but it all calmed down in the end. We are striving to become more unified and obedient as companions and as a district. One of the elders in our apartment has some trouble getting up on time so we are trying everything to get him up. we had 8 alarm clocks going at once on friday. He responded by pulling all the plugs out at once. We're not giving up that easy. We have more plans to get him up.
Not much else, love you all,
Elder Wright
Not a whole lot going on this week. I got this huge fever early this week from the wind and the cold, which put us out of commission for a couple of days. It was really cold all week long and it seemed to be snowing a little every day, which made it really hard to ride bikes, especially after being sick. We are trying to improve how many lessons we are teaching but we need to increase our teaching pool first.
Elder Collins is having a tough time as a district leader, and I'm trying to help as much as I can but we just have some struggling elders in our district. We had some pretty harsh words spoken in our apartment last night but it all calmed down in the end. We are striving to become more unified and obedient as companions and as a district. One of the elders in our apartment has some trouble getting up on time so we are trying everything to get him up. we had 8 alarm clocks going at once on friday. He responded by pulling all the plugs out at once. We're not giving up that easy. We have more plans to get him up.
Not much else, love you all,
Elder Wright
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