Not much this week, but I promise to be better next week Here's one story to hold you over.
The
best thing that happened this week is that one of our less active
families came to church this Sunday, and liked it so much they promised
to come again next Sunday! They had been going to church in LA, but when
they moved they stopped coming to church because they didn't know where
it was, and sometimes they had to work, and they were tired... All the
usual excuses. We found them a couple of weeks ago though, and have
visited them a few times and talked with them. Then yesterday morning we
knocked on their door and asked them to come to church with us, AND
THEY DID!!!!!!!! Unfortunately they couldn't stay for sacrament meeting
(sacrament last is the WORST!) this week, but they promised to stay for
all three hours next week. Luckily they missed my impromptu talk. :)
The branch mission leader called that morning and asked me to bear my
testimony in sacrament meeting and of course I agreed since a testimony
is no big deal. Unfortunately it turned out that there was only one
other speaker, and when he was done we still had 25 minutes of sacrament
meeting left... We sang a far too short intermediary hymn, and then it
was my turn. I introduced myself, joked that Hno Wilson should have
talked for 10 more minutes and then tried to make a coherent statement
of why I came on a mission. I shared a couple of scriptures and my
testimony and encouraged the members to do missionary work. Then I
turned around and asked President Mendez (our branch president) if I
could stop of if he wanted me to keep going. Luckily he was fine with me
stopping so we just ended up finishing sacrament meeting 10 minutes
early. :)
Love,
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