Sept. 22, 2014
Area: Broadway- Central 2
Companion: Heath
Week
57...I have been out 57 weeks? I hit 13 months 2 days ago. I can't
believe time goes that fast when you don't think about it....
This
week has been great for us, we have had the opportunity to work with
members quite a bit and we got referrals out of it! I love getting
member referrals because they already have the member support and they
have friends in the church, and they have someone to motivate them along
the way. We were able to get a total of 4 member referrals, and we look
forward to working with them as well as the people we already have.
We
started teaching another family that already knows members and has
actually been to church a few times. We had a very spiritual lesson with
them on Thursday, and we look forward to meeting with them tomorrow (Tuesday). With this family, on Thursday, we barely missed having the son/brother
there, so we have another potential investigator in that family. We also
taught our investigator, Elvia, again and had another spiritually
edifying lesson with her. She really enjoys what we teach and willingly
accepted the baptismal invitation as she came to understand the need of
authority.
We have also had the opportunity to
find many more less-actives, and we have had the opportunity to start
working with them. One family that we work with, the Rivera family, was
really helped by our efforts. The mother and 2 daughters came to
church on Sunday, but sadly the husband is still working on fixing his
testimony to make him want to return. We are making plans to bring our
ward mission leader to visit with him one of the days this week.
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| From the streets of Houston, Texas |
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| The happy smiles of Elder Dye and Elder Heath |
I
have been having a great time with Elder Heath here. Though, I feel like I am
more stressed because I know there are so many things that I need to do
and that I should be doing, but there just isn't enough time to do it
all. I have recently reviewed some goals I have and I made the goal to
finish the whole standard works before the end of my mission because I
know the scriptures bring peace, and I have felt like I don't know
enough, which adds to my stress. As I have been reading/studying over
the last few days, I have felt the stress leave and it is replaced by
the peace and knowledge of my Savior, Jesus Christ, and a deeper understanding of His
teachings.
This week we had exchanges, which
always adds a little change to the week. And what made it better is that
we had nothing set up for that whole day, so we did a lot of
contacting. We ended up going to the park and trying to find people
there, but sadly there wasn't a ton of people there, so we locked up our
bikes and went around walking. We got to the other side of the park,
and saw a bunch of geese and ducks, so I took some pictures. Then we
noticed that one looked like it had an extra head, so we asked this man
about it. He wasn't quite sure, but we just started a conversation, in
which we found out that he is a member of the church, but hasn't gone
for about 12 years... We got his information, and he went on his way.
Then we were walking back and saw a kid walking over to the soccer field
with his ball in hand, so we asked if we could play. We ended up playing a
little with him, then other kids came up and we got into a game that
lasted about 40 minutes, and during the game, we were talking with the
kids and I became like best friends with a little 8 year old girl. They
were all awesome, and after playing, we went over and talked with their
parents, and they had seen us playing with the kids, but sadly that
didn't soften their hearts enough to listen to the message, but they
knew that we were nice/good people.
I love you,
Elder Stanley Scott Dye
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