Week 78

SOOO! This week, though long, has had some high points, mostly the weather.. IT'S SO HOT!!

 

So remember that lady I talked about that we tracted into that said she had been praying for this and what not? And I said it would be my first ever testimony of tracting?

So she has disappeared, we will try her a few more times, but, we have done all we can do there, but that's ok, I still believe I will find someone from tracting!

 

We did meet another lady while tracting this week, only, she was a former media referral. We got this media referral about 2 months ago, when Elder Rose was still here, we called her and talked to her a few times but she seemed unwilling to set up a time to meet, so we moved on. Fast forward to last Wednesday. Before leaving for DDM I looked at our map to plan a place for us to tract on the way home, we had an early dinner appointment out that way so I didn't want to go back to the pad only to have to go back out there. I found a area that seemed like it would have plenty of tracting to do, put in my mind how to get there, and we were on our way. Well, finding the area I had planned to tract turned out to me far more challenging  then I imagined, I drove down the road that I was SURE the area was off, and found could not find nothing! I was getting frustrated and was about to just give up and drive to an area I was more familiar with and tract there. We soon passed a road that looked like it had a nice little neighborhood off it. This was NOT where I had planned to tract so I just kept driving. 2.1 seconds latter the very strong thought came to my head "turn around!" I quickly obeyed, and we went to that little neighborhood and strarted to knock on doors. Again, this was not at all what I had planned, but days in the mission rarely are, so we went forward in faith... Kinda, It was one of them fancy neighborhoods so I didn't expect anything to come from it. The tracting went as expected, mostly no answers, a few cranky old ladies, and one women that was very well aware of how she was already "saved"! Then we knocked on the car port door of a large home, and... No answer, from the door, as soon as I was ready to say "no one is home, lets move on" A voice from behind us said "Can I help you?" I kept my composure, but deep down I screamed like a little girl, she came from no where! Well, actually she came from the guest house right behind us that I DID not notice. We told her who we were, and she invited us in! COOL! As we were sitting down she said that she had tried to get us over there not long ago. I immediately knew who she was, I asked if she was Anita, (the referral) and she said she was. We had a great lesson about the restoration and the Book of Mormon, and answered some REAL questions she had! It was one of those, "These are the same questions a 14 year old boy had in 1820."  She said we had answered questions that no one else had ever answered. Its good to be a Mormon!

 

That there might be the best mission work story I have ever told, I'm getting good at this!

 

Other then that, we met this CRAZY family while tracting, all kinds of people in the house, all trying to get their bash on at the same time! IT WAS SO FUNNY! They thought Christ went to hell and back after he died, I didn't say anything, but they could tell I disagreed. They knew ALL kinds of things about Mormons... Well, they thought they did, the word cult came up, I just ignored that one, They rest of the "problems" they had with the church I shot down pretty quickly.. Then my comp would say something and they would suddenly have a very different problem.. It was mostly them trying to bible bash us and me saying "well... not quite" So we didn't stay long.

 

WELP! This letter is way to long!

LOVE!

Elder CamCam Martin!