This week started out a little
rough but it turned out good in the end. It started out with a lot of people
cancelling on us or dropping us, but we were able to find 7 new investigators
this week. On Saturday, we met this new lady named Zoila and she came to a
missionary devotional at the church on Sunday night because she wasn't able to
go to church in the morning. So I'm pretty happy about that. Hopefully she can
start coming to church. She might be moving, but we're trying to find her a
place that's still in our area. She's from Venezuela.
The devotional we did on Sunday
was cool. A member dressed up like a hobo outside the church and then came in
halfway through the devotional and sat in the chapel. The theme of the
devotional was service. At the end, the "hobo" went up to the front
and took off his costume and spoke about how he felt and how people treated him
when they came in. We planned it with one of the members and the bishop and 53
people ended up coming and some of the, brought nonmember friends.
On Thursday, Elder Pearson of
the seventy came and spoke to our mission. It was awesome! He came and spoke to
the MLC like 3 months ago and that was awesome too. He's the one that gave the
stay by the tree talk in general conference. He talked about how on average, it
takes someone 7 encounters with the church or missionaries before they accept
it. He said that we get lucky when we find a 7, but he said the best missionaries
find joy in turning a 1 to a 2. That helped me out a lot because we are finding
lots of 1s.
Yozelyn, a member in Phoenix who
leaves on her mission next week, drove to Mesa almost every day this week to
come out with us. So we were basically in a trio for most of the week, so that
was fun.
On Friday, we went to the Mesa
visitors center with Pablo and he really like it. He also came to church on
Sunday, even though it was his 15th birthday. He's super cool.
Also on Friday we had a super
good lesson with our investigators Eladio y Joel. It finally clicked for them
that the Book of Mormon isn't a story about Joseph Smith. For some reason
everyone thinks that. We already had a member at the lesson with us and half
way through, another member walked up and said he saw us when he drove by and
he wanted to come to the lesson too. His testimony helped them out a lot.
Thanks for all the pictures from
Japan. Looks like you had fun.
Love,
Hermana Gubler
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