It has been an exciting week. I'm writing on Thursday instead of Monday this week because we went to the temple on Monday, which was great!
Sister L. and I have been trying to improve our companionship teaching skills. I'm afraid I'm not very good at it yet. I'm not very good at recognizing when she's "handing off the torch," so to speak. But that can only come with more practice, so we obviously need to find new investigators to teach in order to practice. I'm beginning to understand how important finding is -- and how hard it is! Boldness is one of our goals at the moment. Sometimes I'm completely comfortable being bold, but other times I'm just plain chicken. So we've been tracting, visiting former and part-member families, and trying to talk to all those we see. We're also working on earning member referrals. I've also begun to see how you truly have to "earn" referrals from members. It's understandable, though. They need to be able to trust us with their friends!
We had a fireside with Shawn Bradley! More details to come, but it was awesome! It was tricky arranging to get B. there, and then we had to find a way there as well. It was absolutely worth it, though . . . even if I did have to play the piano in front of hundreds of people. Our other investigator, Z., is doing well and we found three new investigators. That is, the zone leaders found three new investigators when they blitzed our area recently. I really wish I could go tracting with them and see their skills!
We experienced a pretty awesome miracle this week. We hadn't been able to contact B. for almost two weeks and were pretty worried about it. He didn't show up for church, which worried us even more. We had been tracting in P-ville and we had the feeling that we should visit this one less-active person. We drove down there, knocked on the door, and there was no answer. I was really bummed out! I was positive that the Spirit had told me to visit this person. We walked back to the car and were talking about what to do next when a school bus drove past. Then I heard huffing and puffing, and running footsteps behind me! I turned around and saw B. running towards us! I couldn't believe it! He had been on that school bus that passed by, saw us, got off at the next stop and had run a block and a half to catch us. Isn't that crazy cool? We had been trying to get hold of him for days. The timing was AWESOME.
The M-ville sisters want to take me on splits with them because apparently one of Grandma's relatives there asked a member in their ward about me. I'm not sure which relative it was -- I'll try to find out soon.
The Ohio winter is definitely coming on fast. Right now there's a temporary warm spell that will be over in a couple days. But last week I thought my fingers and toes would fall off -- it's sooooo cold! The biggest problem is that prime proselyting time is between 5-7:30, but the sun goes all the way down by 5:00 which means it suddenly becomes VERY cold then. Even though it's cold, I know I'm supposed to be here!
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