Hey guys!
So this week was.... Okay. Started off the week with a pretty fun zone activity. It was water games! So we had a slip and slide and a water balloon toss and water balloon fight. Me and my roommate Elder Archibald were the cooks for zone activity! It was super fun to cook for a large group. Elder Archibald has a really good recipe for burgers that you have to marinade overnight. The inconvenient part though is that you have to wake up every three hours to flip the burgers, so it's not the funnest recipe to use. In the end though the burgers are super delicious!
Then Tuesday we had a low. We had an appointment later that day with Abraham. We had previously taught him the first lesson, which is the restoration. The entire time he seemed to be enjoying it a lot and seem to be really taking it in. The spirit was really strong so we thought the lesson went well! We Invited him to read the Book of Mormon, which he said he would do. We also invited him to be baptized at the end of the lesson. He did not want to have another baptism, so we just invited him to read the book of Mormon in the hope that we could help him to understand the purpose of being re-baptized.
Well unfortunately, Abraham give us a call and basically told us that he had read the Book of Mormon but that he didn't feel anything. Elder Taylor asked him if he did read with a sincere heart and real intent and he told us that he had read, but that whenever he read the Book of Mormon, he felt like he just wanted to read the Bible. Also, he didn't read it with a sincere heart, wanting to know. So I commented and said, "Well that's why you didn't receive an answer, Abraham. Again like we mentioned, in the promise that is in the back of the Book Mormon, one of the things that we need to have while reading the Book of Mormon is a sincere heart. This means that you need to be open to the promptings of the Spirit to give you an answer that you are looking for. If your heart isn't in it then you wouldn't receive an answer because you weren't willing to receive one in the first place." Then he started making excuses as to why else he couldn't read the book. First he said It doesn't makes sense, and then he said it was just way too confusing for him, then he said he couldn't say the names. So we countered each excuse with "well what's confusing?" Or "what doesn't make sense?" Or "what names can you not pronounce?", all trying to help him, but each time he couldn't pinpoint a real issue. Then he said well I wouldn't be able to make it to the appointment anyways because my aunt is about to come pick me up and we won't be back till later tonight. So we said that we could reschedule for another time so we can help them understand the Book of Mormon. Then he finally came out and just said, "No I'm done with the book, and I don't want anything to do with it! I'm done reading it.". So we just told him thank you for your time and that we wish him the best in life. Needless to say we lost that investigator :(. I just hope he comes to know of the truth someday. Whether that's now in this life, or the one to come.
Then, on Wednesday we had the awesome opportunity to participate in the Mission Temple trip! It was pretty cool though because a few weeks prior we had done ordinance work for family names that we had found in our own family history line. So I have all of these family file names that need ordinance work done. Now I'm able to take those family names instead of having the temple provide names, or from another Elder. If I find two more, I'll have just the right amount to take one name to the temple for each temple trip I have left before I go home. I'm pretty excited!
Then there was another low. That same Tuesday night my sinuses started drying out at the very back, but it wasn't a normal dry sinus feeling. That night I went to bed and it was a little worse in the morning. So I went all day (even through the temple) with dry, burning, stinging sinuses. Then Thursday I woke up with a small head cold. Then Friday it just wiped me out. So I took Friday to rest up. I started feeling better on Saturday. Sunday I felt a lot better, all I had left was just the sniffles. So we went hiking for p-day and had an awesome time! Then we got home and I started feeling sick again. I took it easy and we played Settlers of Catan. Then I woke up this morning feeling horrible, having congestion, a cough and crap in my lungs.
Last but not least.....TRANSFERS!!!! So I am staying in College Park, but, Elder Taylor is not! He will be going to the city. We find out tonight where he's going and who I'm getting as my new companion. My zone leaders told me that they both really like him, and they both really like me, so we should like each other. I guess we'll see.
Well this has been my roller coaster of a week! I hope everyone else's week was better! If not, then there is always this week :) I love you all! Have a great day!
Elder Gold
Elder Gold
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| Elder Archibald and I showing our Gourmet Cook side |
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| Zone Water Activity! |
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