Monday, November 25, 2013
Well to start off I'm in the last week of this
transfer. I feel like I have big things in store for the upcoming transfer. Also, I will be skyping or calling in just 1 month from
today. I’m sure you are screaming now
that you just read that J
1. How's your week been? What are the highs/lows? Well we had a great week this week, we tracted quite a bit and we found a
few potentials that we are trying to teach soon. I still don’t really
love tracting and it is not the most effective way of contacting, but hey at
least I was out doing it. Another high was that we finally got to talk to
this investigator that we have not been able to contact since I have been here.
We finally got in to talk to him Friday night after many failed attempts.
We have another appointment with him on Friday. A low is it is freezing
cold and I am not looking forward to the cold windy winter. Another high
is that we picked up a new investigator. He is the future son in law of a
less active lady. Unfortunately, they don't live in our area so hopefully
they will move into our area. We
technically are not supposed to teach them if they are not in our area.
The less active lady (future mother in law) lives in our area but the daughter
and the future son in law don't. So we told them they should try and move
into our area because where they are living right now is only
temporary. That was a pretty cool experience.
He (future son in law) said the closing prayer and the spirit was really
strong in the lesson. Hopefully all will go well this upcoming week.
2. What are 5 positive things from this week? 1) I finally finished reading Alma. 2) I know you’re going to be impressed
by this next statement. I’m starting to
eat and like chili. Since it is starting to get cold here lots of
people are making chili for us for dinner and I actually like it. My guess is you’ll see me eat it when I get
home. 3)
The youth activity we planned went much better than I thought it
would. We have been really diligent in our efforts and worked hard in
preparing for it.
3. How's the weather been? Looks like you've had a cold spell? Any
snow? Holy Bertha has it ever been cold. The
highs have been in the 30's the past couple of days and lows in the low 20's to
high teens. No snow yet, they keep saying it is going to snow but we have
not had any yet.
4. How's the teaching going? Good as you
saw in the highs we finally have a few investigators that we can actually
teach.
5. What kind of service opportunities have you had? Well, we still play pool with the old guy. In Manheim we have raked
leaves in a little park and painted some stuff. On Saturday we are going to help put up a Christmas
tree in the town square.
6. You didn't answer how your interview with the President went last week, did
you forget/skip over it or do you not want to talk about it? Sorry, I thought I did. I was just running out of time and I must
have accidentally skipped it. It went well, he talked about the things
that Elder Arnold talked about when he was here. We need to make sure we are trying to use the
stuff he taught us. The interview went well.
7. What's the youth activity that you've been planning? When is the
activity and did you and the WML come to an agreement? Basically it was kind of a missionary night for mutual. We had good
plans for it that we kind of changed up a couple of days before the activity
and the WML did not really like the idea of the way we had it planned. We
planned it the way President taught us, but the WML said it is not President’s
job it is his job to make the approvals etc. So pretty much it was just 2
differing opinions on the way the activity should have been done, but it went
well and I think the youth liked it.
11. How's C (old guy) at the senior center? Is he a member? How did
you find him? He is doing well. No, he
is not a member. A few years ago the missionaries went into the place where
he lives and asked if there were service opportunities for them to do and they
were introduced to C. It has just been a standing appointment ever
since.
12. Any new investigators? Yes, a less active lady's
future son in law. So we will see how it goes with him. The first
lesson went really well and hopefully we will be able to continue teaching him.
13. Who are you teaching? I have told you a little bit;
however, we have been trying to teach this one lady (the less active I keep
talking about) a lot. She is way cool and I am not quite sure how long she
has been a member. She has had a rough past and has tattoos and things
all over but she is super nice and way funny. I’ll tell you a story about
her in the “what will make you laugh” part of your questions.
15. How are things with you and Elder D? Things are going well, I really like him. He’s pretty much an Idaho
farm boy, he started working on farms when he was 12. That is the
kind of stuff he wants to do for a living. He is the second oldest child
and he has an older sister that is going to have a baby in April. He also has a younger brother and 2 younger sisters. Overall, we are doing
well and I can't believe it has been 6 weeks we have been together.
16. Are transfers next week? Do you think you two will stay
together? Yes, transfers are next week. I am not
exactly sure what will happen. Elder D
may be transferred, but most likely he will stay. By this
time next week I will know what is going on.
17. What are your plans for Thanksgiving? Have you finalized what you are
doing? We and the sister are going to the D family’s
house for our big meal. There are going to be a few families there from
the ward and it should be fun. I will take pictures and then send the SD card
home. We will just be visiting members and things and then maybe be lucky
enough to have a Thanksgiving nap.
18. Do you have a DVD player? How will you watch 17 Miracles? Yes, we have a portable DVD player.
19. How's the lady with all of the personalities? We don’t really visit her much. She
is a once every transfer visit. She has a really good home teacher that
lives by her so we leave it up to them to take care of her.
21. What do you do on Pdays in Lititz? We go to the
library and email then we and the others play volleyball at the church.
24. Give me something random that will make me laugh? You’re going to love this, we had a less active lady (the one I mentioned
above) that we have been trying to get to church forever and she always has
something come up. She finally got there yesterday, but it wasn’t before
Satan really tried to stop her. She was already to leave, but she needed
to take the dog out before she left. She ended up tripping in a pile of
dog poop and got it all over her skirt. To make matters worse, she broke
the heel on her shoe and she ran out of gas on the way to the church. We
thought she would never show up because she missed sacrament meeting. But
lo and behold she ended up making it for the last 2 hours. It just goes
to show you how hard Satan tries to wear us down and stop us from doing what
the Lord wants us to do. Conversion is a
continual process and Satan is always chipping away at us. .
Quick plug for Mormon messages…there is a good one
on the Mormon Channel called "Wrong
Roads" by Elder Holland. http://www.mormonchannel.org/video/mormon-messages?v=2714780496001 You may have seen it, but I encourage
you to watch it again because it is really good. Love and miss you, HAPPY
THANKSGIVING!!!
Love you,
Elder Muir
Elder Muir at District meeting and interviews with President
Amish Country
Fall leaves at a member's home
Sunset out Elder Muir's kitchen window
Horse & buggy parking at Target
***I borrowed a couple of the photos from a senior couple missionary serving in Zach's mission. They go home in January and wanted to get a quick road trip in to see the Amish country before they left. Beautiful scenery!!!
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