So if you remember from last week, we had to make a less active who I called John but that's not his real name throw away all of his weed. Well we back Wednesday to check up on him and he had dug it out of his garbage can and was using it again. It turns out that garbage day is in Friday and we threw it away in a Saturday last time. His bad friend was back. They were high so they didn't really know what was going on so we got pretty mad at them. John really felt bad about it. We went over the next day (Thursday) and he had got into an argument with his friend and they aren't going to be hanging out anymore...at least that's the hope. He had thrown it all away and promised he would never think about it again. We went over Friday which was garbage day just to make sure it was still in here. Thankfully it was and now it's all gone. I pray that it stays that way.
So the people we are working with the most right now are Natalie, Aveon, the Wilton's, and Michael. Natalie is being baptized on the 28th of this month so we have her interview this week. She is Nelson's granddaughter. Aveon is getting baptized on the 18th of June. We are playing some basketball with him today and plan on having a lesson. He is such a cool kid! He goes to all the youth activities. There is a Priest in our ward who is boss at missionary work. He got Aveon and his friend Alex both to go on a youth camp out on Friday. It's so awesome! Anyways, the Wilton's have a date set for June 25th but we aren't sure how solid that is. They keep making excuses and never are able to meet or come to church. We weren't able to meet with them this week. Hopefully we can get the ball rolling this week with them. Michael is super prepared guy who we found last week. Basically he wants to be baptized but his wife is holding him back. She isn't as religious but Michael says that she's starting to warm up to it all.
Other than those people we really only have one other guy that we will determine if we are going to keep teaching or not this week. Earlier he had committed to being baptized but we met with him Thursday and he said that he thinks he will just stick to his old religion because that's what he knows and he doesn't want to have to learn anything more. He is huge into welding and has some big welding test this week that will determine if he gets a job with Disney or not so its a lot of pressure on him. We asked if he wants to learn all he can to prepare for the test and he said yes. We explained how it's the same hint with the gospel. We have a test coming up sooner or later in our life that we have to do all we can to prepare for. We testified of how the Book of Mormon is the answer sheet to that test. The spirit was so powerful! I love lessons like that! We promised that him that if he had the faith to read the Book of Mormon every day until his test that he would pass. So we'll see if he really does it.
While at a meeting this week our mission president said something really cool. He said that there are 4 things that all great, even hallmark missionaries have in common:
1. Being exactly obedient
2. Having a great attitude
3. Having a strong work ethic
4. Teaching the doctrines of Christ from the scriptures.
This is so true because obedience shows your faith and if you have a great attitude you will be more likely to feel the spirit. If you work hard the Lord will trust you enough to place someone in your path. I hunk these principles apply to everything that we do! Keep the commandments, be happy, work hard, and stick to he basic doctrines to the gospel and God will provide the rest.
I hope you all have a great week! Love ya! Elder Goff
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| Had to say bye to this kid. He's gonna be a great Elder in Mesa Arizona! |
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| Elder Satchwell and I |
