So this week has been pretty solid, but it started kinda tough. Haha I'll
give you some excerpts from my journal because I think I'm funny.
July 16: Today we trekked like 10 miles so I'm pretty exhausted. We didn't
see the fruits of our labors we got to talk to a lot of people so I'm sure good
things will come from it
July 17: Wonderful day today. All of our appointments fell through, but we
still smile lots.
July 18: We had a great day today. We knocked on a bunch of doors and not a
single person let us in. (haha we call that street Telestial Kindom Drive
now)
Alright so you kind of understand that things were kind of rough, but I
found this awesome quote by C.S. Lewis. It doesn't really say tracting in it,
but here it is...
We may, indeed, be sure that perfect tracting- like perfect charity- will
not be attained by any merely human efforts. You must ask for God's help. Even
when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less
help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask
forgiveness, pick yourself up and try again. Very often what God first helps us
towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always tryng again. For
however important tracting (or courage, or truthfulness, or any other virtue)
may be, this process trains us in habits of the soul which are more important
still. It cures our illusions about ourselves and teaches us to depend on God.
We learn, on the one hand, that we cannot trust ourselves even in our best
moments, and, on the other that we need not despair even in our worst, for our
failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything
less that perfection.
We kept working hard and it seemed like Friday and Saturday we were hit by
miracle after miracle...
One of our investigators is getting pretty close to baptism, but his mom
has always told us that she would die as a Methodist. We were talking about
prayer, and she shared an experience that she was praying for a change in her
life and soon after she found that she had some medical problems. She had
surgery so she has been at home all day and she has started to read the BOM. She
is not going to die a Methodist :)
Lester, our investigator who is big into AA, met with us and told us how
comfortable he was when we came over and told his neighbor that he would come to
church. He has also started reading the BOM and I think his whole family will be
members soon.
We went over to visit one of our potentials to try and teach him the
restoration, but he wasn't home. However there was a mom and her daughter across
the street that we went and talked to. They seem like some of our most solid
investigators and we've only met with them once. They decided to come to
sacrament meeting after the first time we met.
We visited a less active member and he told us that he wanted to do baptisms
for the dead, so he came to church, and set up a meeting with the bishop to work
towards a temple recommend.
There were so many other cool things that happened, but I don't have a lot
of time to email today. Some of the greatest blessings I have found come from
reading the Book of Mormon. Continue to read with the family and by yourself.
There are so many treasures in there. I love you mom and I glad that everything
is going well at home. You're the best
Love,
Elder Hoddy
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