I don’t feel like writing an email this week. I’m trying to talk Hna Noble into forwarding part of her email to me to send. I have been sickish for a while, but today it’s a lot worse. I think it’s because Hna Noble and I were trying to clean the house today and there’s so much dust. We live with members so, usually we just stick with our bedroom and bathroom, but they’re out of town for a funeral so we decided to try and clean up for them while they’re gone. Progress is slow so far, and I coughed up some black stuff afterwards. I’m assuming it’s dust.
Last night we had a pretty funny experience where we were trying to doorbell ditch brownies at the first counselors house. At first we couldn’t find it, and almost left them at the wrong house. When we finally found his house. I rang the doorbell and ran, but we weren’t sure if it worked or not so I told Hna Noble she had to knock the door and then run. She said if she was going to do that I had to pull the car up in front of the house so she could jump in, and then we’d drive away. I pulled the car up but she kept trying to get in the car before she had knocked the door. We spent a good five minutes with my companion locked outside of the car, and me periodically lowering the window enough to say, ‘Just do it already!’ When we noticed someone peeking out the window. Ha ha, good times. Hna Noble was pretty mad at me, but she needs someone to toughen her up.
The reason we were doorbell ditching brownies is we’re trying to get a boo treats kind of thing started in our ward. Increase unity and overall good feelings. We’ll see how it works, and at least in the mean time it’s keeping us in good spirits.
We stopped visiting almost all of our investigators this week. I can’t force feed them testimonies, and if they’re not willing to make any changes themselves they’re never going to come closer to Christ.
We’re trying to do what the bishopric wants to find new investigators and ask all the members for referrals. The hard part is none of the members are willing to make time to meet with us.
Karim’s mom said no to him getting baptized. She said he needs to take more time, and show her that he’s serious about it. She doesn’t want him to do what his older brothers did, and just go for a few weeks, and then stop caring. She said he needs to understand it’s a lifelong commitment. He’s been kind of discouraged since then, and hasn’t been reading or praying as much. We made pray rocks with him and his cousins. Hopefully that helps him get started again 🙂
We didn’t even meet with Dulce and Pascual this week 🙁 When we saw them at church they asked us why we didn’t meet with them. We told them that they had told us they were too busy when we asked during our planning for the week. They responded with, “Well, we didn’t do anything, but sit around at home on Wednesday.” I texted Dulce on Wednesday… she never responded.
Such is life.
love ya,
Rachel