This week has been pretty slow as far as missionary work goes, everyone is out of town/ with family/ too drunk to talk to us around New Years. So, no cool stories to share about that. Except, during sacrament meeting this Sunday, two of our investigators, Weston and Danielle, went up and bore their testimonies! They are 11 and 9. Never mind that they were both the exact same short testimonies, the point is they felt the impression to get in front of hundreds of people and let them know the church is true! If we could only get their parents to act like parents and take them to church it'd be great.
This isn't spiritual or anything, but I have decided I'm gonna go to BYU Idaho for my first year, and then take it from there. It feels like the right place to start out.
Since I don't have any long spiritual stuff, I'm gonna write down my rough draft of my Lame Excuse List. In Utah, there are so many members, that tracting is pretty useless. So we rely on the members to invite their friends to meet with us. It's much more effective. While serving in Kaysville, the good people had inspired me to put together a list of the absolute worst reasons for not talking to their friends about the church. All from active members of the church. Please know that these excuses are not all from Kaysville, nor are all people in this city like this. My list is in no particular order:
1. "We're good friends with them, and I don't want to put that on them" - Kaysville
2. "They're letting us store some stuff in their back yard, and I can't afford to lose that" - Kaysville
3. "Our Bishop is really missionary minded" - Kaysville
4. "Someone in our ward joined the church a few years ago" - Kaysville
5. "Our houses are on 1 acre plots, and it's harder to meet your next door neighbor" - West Haven
6. "I've only lived here a few years, haven't gotten the chance to know my neighbors yet" - Roy
7. "It's not my thing" - Clinton
8. "The sign says no soliciting" Then the Young Womens President's husband yelled at us some more and slammed the door in our faces (Yes, he went to church every week) - Kaysville
9. Didn't give an excuse, just walked out of the room after feeding us dinner.
10. "I don't want to alienate my friends" - Kaysville
11. "I think I'm a better teacher than you" - Kaysville
12. 2 strikes: 1. Floor mat said Go Away 2. He had a University of Utah shirt on - Kaysville
13. "We're in Utah, everyone is LDS" - Everywhere
14. "I wouldn't worry about him... He lives across the street from a church" - Kaysville
15. "Don't expect much, these kids are raised not to associate with non-members" Kaysville
16. "They moved in during the summer" - West Haven
That's my list for now. I'll continue to update it as people let me know why they can't share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with their friends and neighbors. Yall have a great week!
[Pictures from football game spoken of last week in letter - Ryan wanted all of us to know his team won!]
[Pictures from football game spoken of last week in letter - Ryan wanted all of us to know his team won!]
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| Elder Houghton trying to rush Elder Pearson |
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| Whole crew playing football |
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