So this week our mission president has given us a new key indicator to keep track of: how many new contacts we make in a day. He wants us to set a goal of meeting 15 new people a day; which is REALLY HARD in such an unpopulated area, but we did pretty good this week! We got the info on Tuesday, and we had 69 of our 90 people we were supposed to meet. We even had a few people let us in while we were tracting, which never happens!
One lady didn't even wait for us to introduce ourselves, she just said "Oh my gosh! Do you want to come in?"
We didn't really know what to say to that! But we went in and asked her about herself. Apparently, she struggles with depression and she was having a really awful day, and she said she'd been praying that God would send her someone to help her. We'd just said a prayer that we'd find someone that we could help, and she was about the third door we knocked on. It was really cool, and we're really hoping we'll be able to teach her more when we stop by again on Tuesday!
We also have an investigator on date for baptism on August 6! When we went blitzing (not "splits" as we've been informed...don't ask me what the difference is) with the Zone Leaders and two of the other elders in our district Wednesday night, Sister Taua and the two elders she was with invited our investigator Eric to be baptized! The way they told it, it was a really great lesson, and he's really excited to learn more. He's never been to church or learned anything about religion, but he's dating one of our members and he's really golden. So exciting!
Our evening was...less exciting. We had a lesson with one of our other investigators that is progressing, albeit slowly. We shared with her Sister Beck's talk "Mothers Who Know" in trying to get her to see that even though her husband is the (in active) member in their family that she as the mother can lead her family in attending church and becoming active again. It went well, and the Spirit was there, but I was a little frustrated that the zone leader I was with was only interested in surface concerns that Sister Taua and I already knew about, and he just kept beating the same concerns to death; I had really been hoping that this talk would help us realize some deeper concerns that are holding our investigator back from resolving these other concerns that we already knew.
It was less helpful than I was hoping for.
Then we went tracting. We found one potential investigator that sounds like she might be pretty solid. But the zone leader I was with didn't offer me any feedback...WHICH--since the only reason we SHOULD be doing this sort of exercise would be training for me and Sis. Taua--is KIND of unproductive. =P Not to mention he had been the one complaining that we weren't spending the whole evening "finding" (which, in his mind, is apparently ONLY done through tracting...based on some side comments he made about how Sister Taua and I have been trying to work though inactives and part member families)...and then he kept acting completely un-invested in what we were doing....
Anyways...
Sorry, I'm just complaining about how much I...disliked...doing the blitz. This really has been a really good week for Sis. Taua and I though! We found three new investigators total and we met almost all of our other goals for the week! Everson is on fire!
Anyways...you wanted to know more about Sister Taua...
She's the oldest of five. She has two cousins that are also on missions right now (one in England somewhere and one in the Arizona Pheonix mission) that she's also really close with. She went to the University of Hawaii studying psychology, but she's thinking that she's going to change her major when she gets back. Her family is also dropping hints that they're considering moving to Utah, so she's thinking if they do she'll transfer to BYU. She's really happy and fun! She's also a big football fan, and she has a beautiful singing voice! She plays the piano and the ukulele (don't know if I spelled that right).
Let's see...what else is going on...This morning we made chocolate chip pancakes to celebrate p-day! That's exciting. This is really the first "real" p-day we've gotten, between district p-day and the temple trip, etc. We're excited to get to nap later today! (but we're not PLANNING it, because whenever you PLAN for a nap it never happens...)
Tell Krystal congratulations! What is her new surname? It doesn't seem like they've been engaged very long...am I just not remembering right? Hope you enjoy the sealing next Saturday!
I'm glad you were able to see so many characters all in one day! Have you seen Piglet again? When I get back we may have to go on a hunt for him like we did the fairy godmother! Did you take any pictures with the Hammonds when you met up with them? (I'm sure you did...haha)
Anyways, have a fantastic week!
Love,
Sister Heather Holdsworth
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