Heyo,
Haha so we had a crazy, as well as awkward, week.
On Monday, we were at a part member family's home for dinner
(part member family is one person is a member, the spouse, boyfriend, etc... is
not. Anyways, we were having a great meal and about to get into the lesson when
the mother of the member knocked on the door. We continued to go into the
lesson with the mother there. We shared a video and at the end we were starting
to talk to the nonmember parent about re-taking the lessons (he's been taught
before). As we were about to extend the invitation, his mother-in-law started
telling him how he needed to get baptized, sealed to his family, etc... and
kept telling him about how bad he's gonna feel if he doesn't get baptized and
so forth. She went on for about 10 minutes and my companion an I kinda came to
a conclusion about the nonmember parent. He has never really shown a true
desire to learn. He's just felt pushed into it (forced). And that's not how
Christ's gospel works. People need to want to learn before getting into the
gospel. You can't be forced or else you won't apply it to your own life. After
we both had this thought, we ended the lesson really fast. After we had a
closing prayer, I walked up to the nonmember parent and asked him to read Alma
32 from the BOM and asked him to pray about it and that we would call him
in 2 weeks to see if he would like to meet with us or not! We can't wait
to call him next week to see what his answer is!!
On Tuesday we had a lesson with a new investigator we picked
up named Tom. He's an older gentleman who fought in Vietnam. He lives like
right next to our apartment (literally, 2 doors down). We taught him The
Restoration and the Spirit was strong there. He seemed to accept it. he's just
a little embarrassed that he's never heard of it before cause he's so old and we're
so young. We told him that it's completely fine and that if he does the reading
that we ask him to do and keep meeting with us he will be understand in no
time! We're going to go see him again on Saturday morning at 9AM!!
Tuesday night we went to go meet up with Fry at the canal
but he wasn't there!!!
We saw him again on Thursday night and we accused us of not
showing up!! Haha he forgave us somewhat though and we're going to meet him
again at the canal tonight!! Wish us luck!!
On Saturday night we had a Pioneer Day celebration in the
field behind our church. It was awesome!! We had burgers and hot dogs and fun
deserts!!They had fun little pioneer games too!! Including the stick pull
game!! Anyways, the members told my comp and I that we should go against each
other. We went twice and had no winner. On the third try, we snapped the stick
in half! So that leaves the question...
What happens when an unstoppable force clashes with an
immovable object? (fruit for thought (; )
After that we got all age groups from primary age to adult
and played Ultimate Frisbee (my comp and I played in out proselyting clothes!!!
Anyways, I was put on the same team as the Bishopric (my comp was on the other
team). We ended up slaughtering them 10-4!! HAha it was really fun to run
around in proselyting clothes and play sports. The only downside was the field
was filled with fire ants so my feet have a lot of bites! But...the pain is
worth the glory of being on the same winning team as my 50+ year old
Bishop!!
That's all for now!! Love you all!!
Elder Richardson
Meeting with investigators here at the canal.
Put me on one of those Puppy Calendars!!
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