Well, it's been an other week up here in the great white north. And now I can actually call it the great white north, because there's snow on the ground. So this last week was just an other slow one. We mainly tried to stay busy, and ended up doing the forbidden-TRACKING. But it was good. We actually have a "tracting ban" where our president basically said that we offend people by tracting, and we only do it as a last resort. Well, this week, we had to turn to our last resort.
Mainly, we couldn't get a hold of anyone except for a few less-actives, so we taught them. But the whole week was slow, but before I knew it, It was over. We did teach a group of 4 investigators on tuesday who are all very interested, except for one, who just wants to bash. But it was a good lesson regaurdless. The whole week wasn't all bad though. Yesterday was probably one of the best days. Church was just fantastic, We had a meeting with our bishop that actually went somewhere, (Just a little backround, Our bishop has no desire to do missionary work, and our ward doesn't really like us too much), after church we had a pot luck meal that was really good, and then we got in contact with a less-active family and learned how to index as well.
The best part about yesterday was when we finally got in contact with Joe, and went and taught him. He's been struggling for a while with somethings in is life, and he's been trying to get away from friends, and drugs, and things like that, but it's been super hard for him. But finally, he just made the choice to move out, and start a new life. He now lives 5 streets away from us! He's been humble for some time, and somewhat taking in the gospel, our lessons always go really well, but he never keeps commitments like comming to church, but he always reads. So Elder Martin and I didn't really know what to teach him, because he'd been taught everything, so we prayed, and it came clear as day. We needed to teach him about the atonement again. Specifically faith, repentence, BAPTISM, the holy ghost, and enduring to the end. And set a baptism date for him. He'd been invited to be baptised, but never really accepted it.
So we went and taught him with the member we always bring. And the lesson went better than we could have hoped. Joe just ate it up, and seemed so humble. The spirit was so stong, and finally I invited him to be bapised, and he finally accepted, and accepted a date. So hopefully, he'll be baptised by the 21st of Dec. I might not be here by then, I might get transfered, but it's for Joe.
I'm looking forward to this next week. It's going to be cold, We finally got snow, although on thursday I was walking around in short sleeves, but now it's an average of -9*c outside. With -16*c Windchill. That's for now, winter's just staring at me, and i'm excited haha. We have meal appointments every day this week, we might even eat Balut! (look it up) also, we're making an other trip out to Starbuck. dirt roads in the snow. Alright. I'm happy to be here, and time's flying.
Love you guys,
Elder Jake Sorenson
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