Courtney's Week #48

So my companion goes home one week from today, and I still have no idea what the plan is for me, but oh well, we will see when the time comes. So this week my companion and I decided that we were tired of teaching the old people. There are a lot of old people here. The majority are just lonely and so, because they are nice they let us in, we sing them a song and say a prayer, but a lot of them either can´t hear, can´t see (at least enough to read), or just plain are stuck in their ways and can´t understand the gospel. So we decided that we needed to be a little bit more selective about the people we teach.

 

We pretty much dropped all of our investigators, took a leap of faith, and started over. Every night we planned for like an hour, we did a lot of praying, and thinking about where we should go. We didn´t find a whole lot during the week so it was a lot of just walking around in the blazing sun, but we kept at it. And during the weekend we found four really really awesome families. It was really cool, and the coolest part was that we´ve kind of stopped knocking on every door, we still do when we decide that we are going to knock a street, but how we found these families it was when we were just passing and we will stop and say I want to knock this door and Ta-Da out comes a super awesome non-old person who was waiting for us. It´s pretty cool.

 

So this week we had stake conference, it was the kind of stake conference where it is broadcast from Salt Lake to like 20 stakes or something like that. The same like they do in Utah. But it was pretty good. Elder Jensen from the presidency of the seventy, Sister Beck from the Relief Society, Elder Neil A. Anderson, and Elder L. Tom Perry spoke. It was pretty cool because they all spoke in their own Spanish except for Elder Perry, he had a translator. Things lose a lot of their meaning when they´re translated, it´s better when you hear it right from the speaker.

 

So Dad how is shut down going? How is everything going in Vernal?

 

Well, I don´t have much else to say, so I will talk to you all next week.

 

Love you,

Hermana Evans