So this week’s letter will have
three parts The long Walk, The long Talk and the New Start
The Long Walk- So there was this
address in our area book and the record was great, well she had 4 lessons and
wanted to be baptized and that was where it had ended about a year ago nothing
else so we prepped for a long haul bike ride to visit her. We made it to her
house in 1 hour and 45 minutes that was booking it was about 45 kilometers but
it was a gravel road, the path was anywhere from 2 inches wide to 2 feet wide
depending on the part of the path and it was a straight shot for bikes between
these two cities. As I said it was great time going there but on the way back
we made it about 5 kilometers on the path when my comp blew out his back tire
again and we started to walk. In total it took about 4 hours to walk home and
the rest of the day to fix his bike. On the plus side there were some really
nice people I got to give directions to and some others that stopped and tried
to help us pump up the tire but it wouldn't hold any air. Nobody was interested
in hearing about our church though.
The Long Talk- So this past Sunday I
gave my second talk, this one was a full 20 minutes long and man it was a
struggle. The first 10 minutes or so it was just fine everyone could follow
along and I was doing ok and then there were some big words in the scripture and
I felt like I struggled the rest of the talk, everyone told me that I did great
but they do that even if you didn't so I don't trust them on that. Well the
good news is that I can give a long talk in Danish and it did do something for
someone in the audience. There is a less active in our branch that hasn't come
since she had been baptized 6 years ago that we convinced to come. We walked
with her to church and sat with her. After Church we walked with her home and I
talked with her about what she liked and missed about church and she opened up
and told me why she was baptized and why she stopped coming to church. We sat
down talked a little about faith (that is what my talk was on) and I pulled out
Mark 9 They story of the father and the son. The son has an evil spirit and the
father pleads with the apostles to cast it out and they can’t, he then pleads
to Jesus to help in any way and Jesus asks about his faith. He immediately
responds with his faith and asks for help with his disbelief. We set out a plan
to help her come again to church and to work towards going to the temple in
about a year. She was so excited that she went right inside and started to read
the BOM again.
The New Start- So there was a man
that we knocked into about a month ago and he is in no way shape or form going
to convert, that is what he tells us about 12 times a lesson but he always
invites us to come back and talk with him again the next week. Yesterday we
talked with him a little about baptism and being able to repent, a fresh start.
He told us that he is interested in learning more about that but that he can't
be converted by us. I quickly came back that we don't convert anybody, he
responded with another comment like well then I guess you are crappy
missionaries then. I said that it is not my job to convert him but to help him
learn the gospel of Jesus Christ and the Holly Ghost will testify to him and
then he will convert himself. He said that’s what they all say and laughed. He
is one of my favorite people to visit because he has a great sense of humor and
loves motorcycles. He finds it funny that I love them as well and he never
thought a church man could love motorcycles as much as he does. I told him
about an I’m a Mormon video on the website about some old men who ride bikes
all the time and help people.
My personal study is some of my
favorite time in the day because I can learn more about the questions I or my
investigators have and strengthen my testimony. I hope that I can send back
some things that will help ya'll in your lives. There is just so much that
happens in a week that it is a little difficult to write it all.
Love
AEldste Vance
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