To the Family,
I feel like I was just in this stinkin library
yesterday, this week has gone by way too fast! I guess I will outline
the week sort of for all of yous. Last Wednesday I was sick, so I stayed
in that stupid room all day while other missionaries went to the
lessons we had. It was not fun. The next day we had the "huge" snow
storm and they called us in early so that we would be safe. Utah doesnt
know how to plow their roads, so there was a ton of traffic that night.
All of the neighborhood streets are still not plowed or salted which
makes it scary sometimes when people drive. It snowed all the way
through Friday and stopped on Saturday. Overall we got about 14 to 16 inches so there is a decent amount of snow here and it is a blast to walk in!
Not much happened Friday or Saturday except for some lessons we had
with mostly less actives. Sunday we gave talks about fulfilling our
calling which I thought was interesting because father spoke a bit about
that on Sunday as well.
We also taught some lessons that night and saw a bunch of peeps which
was good. Yesterday President finally met with Ric about the polygamy
thing and he doesnt have to meet with a GA!! That will make it easier
for him to get baptized! Now all he has to do is quit smoking and move
out of his ex wife's house, odd situation.
To update you on our peeps. Takashi is getting baptized this
saturday!! Everything is set up and ready for him so that should all be
good. Morgan is now solid to get baptized, but it will happen the 9th of February
because she wants her dad to baptize her, so no complaints there.
Kristen still has to get married first and we are having a tough time
getting that set up with her. Greg is ready, but he has to get divorced
first. And we have not met with Ralph in a while which is no good. We
talked to this woman yesterday who is a semi investigator. She doesnt
really believe in God because she says she has never felt his presence.
We talked to her yesterday a little bit about the Spirit and how that
works. We are going back on Friday and will discuss some more things. Pray that she has an overwhelming experience and acts on it!
We are meeting with a bunch of less actives which is cool. The
Leighs are a cool family and they are progressing very well to make it
to the temple pretty soon. Devon is an 18 year old kid who kinda
believes in the church, but has made some mistakes in the past and kind
of needs to work through those. I cant think of any others off the top
of my head, but there are also a bunch of recent converts that we are
working with. There is plenty of work to do in this area. I especially
realized this the other day when we were walking through one of our
appartment complexes for what seemed for hours! We have 8 or 9
appartment complexes like that. We determined that there are 50000 to
100000 people in our area. I might be exagerating, but that is till a
mucho! And not many of those are active members. It was a little
overwhelming when I came to this realization, I felt like I needed to
try every appartment and find EVERYONE! But that would require knocking
doors, and that is a waste of time. We are going to try to work through
members more because they are the key. I think I have explained this
many times, but I cannot stress it enough. Members are full time
missionaries. I spoke about this on Sunday how God has commanded us to
do missionary work, so we gotta do it. It is part of our calling.
Well I will stop ranting. I hope all of you have a good week! See you on the other side!
Elder Connell
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