I
don't know if I told you, but Elder Ahumada (that used to be an assistant) is one
of the Zone Leaders right now. I talked to him on Monday night and we were able
to see eye to eye and get things figured out. Tuesday was pretty normal all
things considered. The sister missionaries in my district are super happy once
again and the Elders are about the same as they have been. Their results have
been nearly the same every week, which is somewhat disheartening. That being
said, we've seen steady improvement (small as it may be). So as long as they
keep improving I'll be happy.
There was a lot of problems this week in trying
to schedule appointments with the people that had a chance of getting baptized
this weekend (we couldn't get an appointment until the weekend itself) so we'll
be waiting another couple of weeks. That worries me and encourages me at the
same time. I see the positive in the fact that they'll have a little more time
to truly prepare themselves, but I'm worried because now we have a ton of
people with the same baptismal date and I'm concerned that we won't be able to
stretch ourselves out well enough to give everyone the proper attention. The
biggest positive is this though: The assistants are back from doing the
conferences so they'll have a little bit of time to work in these two weeks.
That means that we'll be able to split ourselves up and schedule double
appointments. The problem that we've had recently is that, since we can't work
in the mornings as secretaries, all of our investigators have the same
schedule. So we'll have an investigator say, "can you come Friday at
6?" and we'll have to say no because they're the 4th person to ask us
that. Summed up: I feel that we'll pull it off if we work hard and have faith
that it's possible.
The weather here has been cooling down. I've appreciated
it. The best part of the week was the baptism of Hector. He wasn't our
investigator, but rather the investigator of the sisters. That being said, I
had the pleasure of doing his interview and Elder Lovaas had taught him more than
a year ago, back when Elders where in that area. He took a looong time to get
baptized for various reasons, but that made the service super special. Hector
asked Elder Lovaas to baptize him and seemed rather happy that I went with him
to the baptism. The hardest part was staying motivated this week. That was
because it was really hard to get appointments with our progressing
investigators (hopefully it's not because of a lack of desire on their part)
and I didn't want to find too many news just in case we started to get the
appointments going again. But eventually I realized that that was a faulty way
of thinking and that it would be better to keep looking. As a result we ended
the week with good results... apart from baptisms. But they'll come soon.
We went
to the trampoline park today again and it was the first time I've gone to a
park like that and not had a minute or two that I just got bored or tired. I
felt like it was well worth the money this time around. We had pork with mashed
potatoes yesterday and a meat besides chicken was an interesting delicacy. I
also had pig brain finally. It was disappointingly normal, but it wasn't bad.
A
tender mercy was also something I learned in my studies. I studied love quite a
bit and tied it with obedience. I held in mind something that Elder Bednar had
told us: if we lack love, the noun, it is due to a lack of love, the verb. I've
come to a further conviction of the doctrine found in John 14:15, "If ye
love me, keep my commandments." I also took an intriguing look into the
parable of the unjust steward found in Luke 16. Read about it in "Jesus
the Christ" if you don't understand it at first.
Love,
Elder Finlinson
I always tell Connor that I want him to send pictures so I can see his cute face...well Elder Breinholt took this candid picture of him so he could send it to me.
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