1/18/16

It's winter now people. This week was overshadowed by coldness. Tuesday we had a productive morning finding referrals in Homewood. We were able to teach quite a few lessons even tho it was cold.

The day downtown froze over

We went downtown and finally saw Dave again! He's been softened a lot because his mom is on her death bed. He's paying attention to the Book of Mormon now and is slowly but surely changing. The difference from when I first saw him and now is pretty different.

The highlight of Wednesday was Elder Howard and I teaching two different people at the same time. It was Leona and her friend Eric. Leona again told us again how happy she was that we were her "angels." Sadly later in the week we learned that people above her weren't doing their jobs. But it was a cool night. There's been some ups and downs for sure. Some afternoons were just walking around trying to find some less actives and nothing happened, those days are always rough. We also had a zone training where I learned about how bad of a planner I am. So now I get to repent and try the right way of planning out. The longer I'm out the more inexperienced I feel. It's ironic and a work in progress. We also got to see Tony again. He has problems with prophets on the earth again, and he still hasn't been able to go to church. Really if people want to learn fully about the church they need to read, pray, and go to church. So that struggle of getting people to church is too real.

At church Nick gave a awesome talk! I tried to record it but on accident I was already recording, stopped it as he talked, then started it again as he sat down. Face palms for days! The spirit was really strong. He said he is eternally grateful for Elder Gille and I. I don't think he realizes the magnitude of saying "eternity". I feel like her was just trying to quote Toy Story, but It was really cool for me to hear. Sunday night we had a lesson at the Langes, with the zone leaders teaching Eva, the referral we contacted. She is so solid, the lesson went really well. She'll be baptized for sure, especially because she has such good friends in the church already. Good week, really cold, ups and downs but that's the life I live! Also it's worth it.

I "got" to play Pokemon today