Oh my goodness this week has been interesting, I
honestly can't remember a ton, because well I have been sick all week,
still going around and out and about but I have kinda been out of it
haha. I just got my flu shot, so that is good.
Ok, well
we skyped with Austin this week and he is like a hermit! He is like 40
years old and while skyping he could not look at the camera and was very
uncomfortable the whole time. How ever he still loved talking to us and
so we set up another time to just call him cause we knew skyping
freaked him out. Well we called Austin later this week and he tried to
drop us, we told him we will still call, but he tried to drop us, and it
is so confusing cause he was just on fire! I really think he has some
major social anxieties and is too scared to meet us and so he is giving
everything up. Or maybe he has something else and we just are not
suppose to work with him. One day I will meet him, whether it is here or
in the next life. I can honestly say I have done everything I could to
share the gospel with him, and one day I hope he will be able to be
baptized.
We went to Helena this week for online
proselyting training which was super awesome I really enjoyed it. After
coming back from Helena we met up with Quinten who we met like 2 weeks
ago, he is like 18 and so we took him to FHE in the YSA ward here and he
loved it, so then we were able to teach him after we got back from
Helena. That is a funny story, cause we were suppose to meet him at the
Bozeman pond, and we had Margaritta with us, a member of the ysa ward.
Well we were waiting and he was not there, we found out he was at
Hastings because his ride never showed up but he still wanted to meet
with us, so we were about to head over to Hastings when this Asian guy
came up to us and started talking to us. We could not understand
anything he was trying to say "Mormon" but it sounded like "woman" so we
were so confused. Finally we figured out he was saying "Mormon" and
then he tried to talk to us and he was super nice but all we could get
out during 1 minute of conversation was "Mormon, Korean, Buddhist and
Jesus" that was all. Poor guy, we got his number and told him we will
call him, but we are trying to find someone who speaks korean. this guys
name is like Kwyson. and he keeps calling us but we try to talk and we
never understand anything. So hopfully we will find someone who speaks
Korean. Anyways we head over to Hastings and he is there with a girl
named Brittany who we met before and then his girlfriend..luckily he
mentioned that, cause I thought she was hie 12 year old little
sister..so that could have been really awkward. Well she did not want to
talk to us really, so we sat down at a table and taught him the
restoration, it was by far one of the worst lessons we have taught haha,
there were people distracting him and someone even came up in the
middle of the lesson right before we invited him to be baptized and
wanted to talk to us, his name was Kris and he had a son with downs
syndrome who was the sweetest person ever, anyways we got his info and
he left. Finally the lesson got a little better, and the spirit must
have been there cause he accepted the invitation to be baptized and to
read the Book of Mormon, he agreed to be baptized on November 7th. We gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon and invited him to read the introduction.
The next day we were texting him and he had read and prayed, and
said it felt good, and he looked so happy the next day. Then on top of
that he read the witnesses, and the next day he told us he read the
testimony of Joseph Smith! What a wonderful young man! He is working
diligently to be baptized :) Of course we have to hand him over to the
elders to teach since he will be in their ward, but that's totally ok.
As long as he keeps learning and is baptized :)
So that
Kris guy that seemed interested during Quinten's lesson. Well he
called us and wanted to set up a time to have a bible study, then he
told us about all these bibles he has, and the way he started talking
just sounded like he was wanting to "study" with us to just bash, so
hopefully we won't have to meet with him.
Oh so on Friday we were trying to contact some people, and nothing was happening it was awful, so at about 4pm
we tried this one potential and he was asleep, but feeling like we had
not done much I told Sister Harwood, let's knock on this door across the
street, so we do and they let us in! They are from the Blackfeet
reservation up by Rowning and it was so perfect cause I was able to talk
to them about some of their native ways and so they connected with us,
but more than that we found out he practices native ways and she is more
catholic, but their priest just retired and they are trying to find
another church, we introduced them to the Book of Mormon and how it is
about their people and it seemed to interest them, and they said we
could come back! I am so excited for them! They are awesome! I just
love them and their kids already, their names are Jim and Tracy. Isn't
it so wonderful that Heavenly Father knows exactly where we need to be
when we need to be there. This family is a perfect example of that. We
tried one investigator who needed to sleep at that time so that freed
us up to knock on his neighbor's
door :)
After meeting Jim and Tracy, we headed out to Big Sky because we wanted
to do some finding there because we had 2 referrals, the first one was
not interested and the other we could not find, so we went to the volley
ball game at the high school, cause we figured a lot of people would be
there, and well, yep the whole school was there, and they were very
wierded out by us, some lady asked us which perish we belonged to haha.
So then we went to the gas stations, where people would be and tried to
talk to people there, and we were able to meet some people which was
awesome! We also went to the Big Sky branch on Sunday. There were 8
people, 4 of which came in from Bozeman, because it is their calling to
go to that branch, we have a lot of work to do haha. But it was super
fun. Then we came home to Bozeman and went to church here. Roy and Lisa
were there. Please pray for them. He wants to come back and is trying,
however she is very offish and doesn't want to really meet with us, at
least that is how she was acting, so please pray for her. After she
found that anti crap she has been so different. Pray that she will do
what we asked and read the Book of Mormon.
We met a wonderful
lady Chris Ann and her daughter who have moved into our ward, they
actually were baptized a couple years ago and went a less active for the
last couple months but they just moved from Big Sky (I think that was
the reason they were less active it was just so small and no youth
program) but anyways they moved into our ward and are so excited to be
back to a bigger ward and back in the gospel. They are so sweet.
OH one last thing, Cortnie in the Rimrock ward got her mission
call! She emailed me and I am so excited for her! She is going to the
Houston Texas mission! What a wonderful missionary she will be! I am so
excited for her! I love you all and have a great week! Happy birthday to
Gavin :)
-Love Andrea
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