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| Elders Mackie, Clare and Van Duren |
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| Elder Wheelright (MTC comp), AJ & Elder Clare |
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| The Fab Five... Munoz, Wheelright, AJ, Clare & Tukuafu |
first off on tuesday and wednesday we got a lot of rain again in the afternoon which sucks cuz its already been tough enough for us to find new investigators these last couple weeks and when it rains, you can basically forget about it in our sector. cuz the people at home tell us to go away cuz its raining and the people that are in the street go inside and stay out of the rain. so we just kinda did what we could for those couple days. the funny thing about wednesday though was the district meeting. the first hour of the meeting is always a class and then the second hour is doing practices for something. and this week we practiced (although it was something real) going outside and contacting everyone that we see and just doing more contacts and talking to everyone. and so they told us we couldnt go back to the church unless we had 8 contacts or a new investigator (which means getting into a house and doing a house blessing). so we went out to contact and did some contacts which were pretty good. but it was really cold outside from the rain and wind so i said lets just go knock a door and get a new so that we can go back. and the first door that we knocked, it was a old guy named hernan whos wife fell and broke her back a couple months ago and thats been hard on them. so we did the house blessing and helped them with whatever we could. im glad that we could do that and help them out with feeling a little comforted but i couldnt help thinking about how ironic it is that we worked 20 minutes in another sector and find 2 news, and work in our sector for weeks and cant find anything. but its just a difficult time for us right now and we just have to work through it.
thursday we had the capacitacion especial in republica and i thought that it was really good. president talked a lot about applying the book of mormon to the specific needs of every person that we talk to. and that if we do that during contacts, more people will want us to come by and will progress cuz they will be more interested in the book of mormon. and so im excited to use that more with investigators. now all i need is some new investigators to apply it with. the other good thing about that day is that i completed a year and a half in the mission which is crazy to think about. although i didnt do anything special to celebrate the day like i did when i hit a year. all i did was take some pictures with the other guys at the meeting that are going home with me. after the meeting i had a scary moment though. we were heading back to our sector and since i know that area pretty well, i wanted to take a different way home. so we were walking in the street and came to a corner where we had to wait to cross. and as we were waiting, a couple of buses turned right on that corner where we were standing. the first bus was fine, but the second one had problems. i saw the mirror go right across my face, almost hitting me and i just thought wow that was close. and as soon as i thought that, elder alcaraz pulled me backed and said watch out. and as soon as we stepped back, i watched the bus go over the curb right where we were standing. ill just say that my heart was pounding after that. and im thankful that im ok.
friday i went to renew my visa and get the papers done to finish the mission and that was weird thinking about. i had a fun time being with that group of 5 during that trip cuz we were all gringos and just laughed at everything. but i found out that ill be flying home with elder nielson to arizona cuz his parents are in the tucson mission right now. and thats kinda cool cuz i sat with him on the plane coming here and then ill be with him on the plane going home.
then finally sunday we had a little miracle....maybe. our ward mission leader has a nephew not baptized that lives on the border of our sector but really belongs to av matta. and he got upset this week cuz the missionaries there were supposed to go by but didnt do it. so he called the zone leaders there upset telling them to chew out those missionaries for being irresponsible and not going. and so i said, just joking around, what if we bring him over here and teach him here and baptize him here. and he liked that idea so he asked me today to ask permission from president king to do that. so if everything works out, we should have a baptism in another month or so which should be really easy. cuz all we will have to do is teach him. and then our ward mission leader will baptize him. so hopefully that will happen.
other than that everything is going well. im doing well although ive been kinda tired lately but what are you gonna do? thats just the mission for you. i hope that everyone is doing well. have a good week
Elder AJ Mlazgar
BE GOOD OR BE GOOD AT IT
Alma 32:21 2 Nephi 26:8
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