June
10, 2013
Well,
funny thing happened this week. I forgot my planner at the service
center
and currently don't have it now. The information about this week I
remember
will likely be a bit watered down. I never realized how lost I was
without
it. And I'm extremely behind on my journal, but that's another
story.
Haven't crashed on my bike yet either. *phew*
This
week has been one large focus of less-actives. Sure, we've been
focusing
on them a lot of course, but for some reason we had mutiple cases
where
we were able to catch them home, be let in, and have a good chat.
I'll
be honest, its still frustrating to see how many were offended by some
circumstance
in church and don't desire to come back. But with
luck(probably
something spiritual in it really...) this week, we found some
people
who were more happy to see us, and friendly.
There
was one in particular who hasn't been to church in 5 years or 20
years.
(I don't remember,) and we invited him Friday to come to stake
conference.
(We were also able to talk to him about certain aspects of the
word
of wisdom, and D&C...) To a miracle, he came! He knew some members
and
sat in the front row. We were able to talk with him after, and he just
had
this big grin on his face. We saw him talking and chatting with a random
guy
he knew and was having a great time I think! Finally, someone with
potential
of genuinely coming back! So I'm particularly excited about that.
There
are other details with his case, but its going good so far! Continued
contact
important!!!
We
were able to have another appointment with our one Friend I'll call E
this
week. It was also a good lesson. We talked about faith, and how faith
grows.
Read a little from the Book of Mormon. Committed to read Alma 32. The
good
note was that he read the first chapter in the BOM like we committed
him
too. We also committed him to stake conference, but he was sick that
day.
:-( Spirit was there. Still a willing guy. Still willing to progress.
We
have a set appointment every Friday so that's also very excellent. Makes
me
happy. Now we just need more progressing people like him.
Personally
I've been particularly happy lately to have refreshing studies.
I've
been hitting walls in my thoughts but this week was good. Studied the
Fall,
the Atonement and a lot of Joseph Smith on the side. Oh, and if
cannibalism
was against the commandments. Maybe word of wisdom? You never
know...
mmm....
I don't really know if there is anything in needed reporting.
Nothing
super good. Nothing super bad. Just... going.
Anyway,
hope we don't get crushed in the flood of new missionaries this
week.
Not kidding our mission has literally doubled in the past two weeks.
So
many new faces I just don't know.
Din
ven eller bro eller søn eller barnbarn eller whatever you'd like my
title
to you be...
Hilst,
Ældste
T. Christensen
