30 January 2012

Hey Mom,
So my week was pretty good. Neither of us got transferred, I forgot to tell you last week that it was transfers week...Oops. I just can't keep track of anything anymore. But as you heard, we are moving apartments tomorrow. It is definitely a better apartment and it will smell a lot nicer as well because there is a family from India that lives next door so we get to smell their cooking. Although it is not as good of a location as this run down apartment is. But oh well, I will just have to live with it. I am going to miss those people in there as well, even though they were rowdy and loud and had bad habits, they loved us.
We have no idea what is going to happen on Super Bowl Sunday, because it will be super ineffective to proselyte because everybody will be watching the game. Last year was different because it wasn't here, but now that it is here, there will be pandemonium. It will be interesting.
So like you heard we had set a baptism date for that 9 year old, but now he says he doesn't know if he wants to get baptized or not. He is just being a very difficult 9 year old, just as they usually are. But he keeps changing every time we go over there, so we will see what happens.
We had a lesson, sort of, with a former investigator. We talked with him for a little while and got to know him and his past experience with the missionaries. He had read a little bit of the Book of Mormon but got bored very quickly, so he stopped reading. So we asked what would keep his attention. He said "wars, blood, and gore!" So we were like, we can show you everywhere in the Book of Mormon that you can find that stuff. So next time we go over there we will have a list of those chapters and we will give him the background on those chapters so he won't be totally lost when they refer to other people in the Book of Mormon. He has also had lots of dreams about just crazy weird stuff. One of them that he described in detail was pretty much what the Spirit World is. The way he explained it wasn't the way we explain it, but it was very, very similar. He told us other dreams he has had and it was a strange feeling when he was telling us about some of them. But he seems like he could progress very well if we can keep his interest, because he said that he loses that very easily, so we will probably have to relate things to his dreams because he holds onto those very strongly.
Do you remember how before I got emergency transferred the first time that I was with one of the elders that came out with me? Well that same elder is now in my district! Now there are 3 of us that came out together in the same district, we are just in different companionships. It is pretty cool.
So that is pretty much my week in a nutshell.
love,