This
week was awesome! I have a new, new companion, Elder Farnsworth. He
just stepped off the plane Tuesday. He is awesome. I know that this next
transfer is going to be fantastic. Mostly because he gets my obscure
movie quotes and reminds me of Elder Jared Morris. I will try to send a
picture next week of the two of us but we will have to see if I can
remember.
I have noticed many things on my
mission, but one of the biggest things is...I forget easily. If I don't
write it in my planner then I completely space whatever it was that we
were suppose to do. I am so glad that we are in companionships because
at least one of us remembers to write something down so we don't forget
everything.
I am not really sure what else to
write. It gets harder and harder, while you are on a mission, to think
of things to write home about. We have slowly been cleaning up all the
potential people that may or may not be interested in hearing our
message. It is hard because they never seem to be home when we stop by. I
sometimes wonder if missionaries just talk to the person outside then
write their name down as a potential investigator and forget to go back,
so that when another missionary, me, gets to the area they think,"Sweet
look at all the work we have to do!" Then as you proceed down the list
just about everyone says they are not interested in listening to us. It
is heart breaking at times because I want them to know the Joy and
Blessings that the message of the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus
Christ can bring them.
I can also tell that the
adversary is working on them too. We come across some very rude people
that don't use very nice words when telling us to leave. Also as we ride
down the streets sometimes you can hear people yell things.
My
personal thoughts on this is why do they yell at us? Do the Jehovah's
Witnesses get yelled at when they are walking down the road proselyting?
If so, why? "Can't we all just get along?" I was always taught if you
don't have something nice to say, yell at the person to make them want
to yell at me back to get our points across... oh wait, it may have been
DON'T SAY ANYTHING AT ALL! But, everyone has their agency some just are
not as smart when it comes to using theirs... I am not sure if that is a
nice thing for missionaries to say but, i'm only human; and I am trying
to be like Jesus. So I don't yell back or anything and I try to think
that maybe they just had a bad day or experience with a member and when
they really come to know about the Church they will change their mind.
It is just getting the opportunity to go back and teach that is the hard
thing, because they have already decided that they are not interested
in anything we have to say.
But, all in all,
most of the people we come into contact with are really nice at turning
us away. They say how appreciative they are that we are out here sharing
our message about Christ but they already found Him and are good. So we
just have to smile and try a little more to see if they might want us
to come back, but then some start to get agitated and tell us a little
more forcefully that they are not interested. We have to just smile and
wave goodbye. Then we write their name down for the next set of
missionaries to stop by... :P
Summer is on the
downhill slide. I thought that when summer started that work would go
up due to people being home. But here it is the complete opposite.
Everyone wants to get out of the heat and go to the lake. So things will
start to get back to normal as people will be in town.
Side
note: will someone find me a definition for what a Christian is? Or if
there are multiple definitions or classifications would you send those
to me.
Elder McCallson
Elder Farnsworth, the new arrival
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