Hello All,
Quote from
President Weston.
"Perseverance
is a great element of success. If you knock long enough and loud enough at the
gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
"At least 30 times a day!!"
So about
this week.
It was
pretty much a lot of work. We did a ton of service and one of the days we
did service for about 7 to 8 hours moving some one our of their house. We have been helping out with Habitat for
Humanity and I think that some of the things about building houses are
interesting. I love to watch and understand how they are built. It is so interesting how exact they have to
be in order to be put up right and stay that way. So I think it was
pretty good couple of hours of work.
My companion
is really crazy….but he knows a lot about the scriptures and that is
good. I will keep trying to do my best!
Earlier this
week we were trying to teach this guy from Sudan. We gave him an Arabic Book of Mormon. We were visiting him every now and again, he
likes to watch this preacher on YouTube and this preacher doesn't
sound like he actually knows what he is talking about. He just
reads a scripture and then tells it back to the audience with a few
words changed. People love it for some reason. Anyway we tried to
tell him that the BoM is not another Bible and he kept asking us where
Mormon and Nephi and Alma were in the bible.
It ended up with him giving his Book of Mormon back to us and we
are not going to see him ever again at least until he wants to be seen.
With our
investigator named B. We are making a ton of progress with her and most
of her family and now her one legged mom!! We are teaching everyone pretty
much and it is great and they are really interested with everything that we
teach them and tell them. Our last visit we got taught their 6 year old
daughter to pray and how to pray and it was awesome!! I had to give her a
little help with the prayer by telling her what to say but it was very sweet
and a great prayer by her.
So about
some of your questions that you want me to answer.
How is the
mission different that I thought? It is different because I didn't know
that it would be this hard and this rewarding for all of the efforts that we
put in and get out.
What is the
hardest thing so far?
It is all of
the temptations that get thrown at us by most people. There are some
people who we visit that are like, “do you want to watch a movie?” “Want to
play on my phone?” and they are very tempting and no one will find out….
but I say NO, I cant do that. It is a great way to then tell them about why
I am here.
What are my
hopes and dreams for the future of my mission?
Some of them
are: to train a missionary, be a senior comp., baptize a family.
and that
is my week…
Love, Elder
Vance