September 2, 2014
Well I am kind of bummed to hear
that people are thinking badly about me in the missionary network. One of my
housemates said that he talked with some missionaries who I don’t even know and
they said, “Oh, Elder Colvin is trouble!
When I hear emergency transfer, I think of him.” I can’t believe it. I did absolutely nothing to get transferred
and my reputation is destroyed. I have
no way to solve this problem so I just have to try to keep on working, but I
have to admit that it is discouraging.
In other news, I let an elder cut
my hair today. It ended up pretty good.
In the missionary work, we are helping another less-active family come
back to church. They have already said
that they want to be able to go to the temple someday. I hope that they can make it. The husband is a great man and could be a
great leader in the ward. F. and S. are really progressing. Their mother is working super hard to help
her boys learn and stand firm. We can
already see huge changes starting to take place in that home. It is great
working with families! Their baptism is planned for the 6th.
September 4, 2014
We are
doing a lot of contacts here because a lot of our appointments are falling
through lately. Mainly they fall through
in the afternoon because people are too busy to talk to us. They are either working, studying, or
sleeping. Our most successful lessons
are at night. People are very willing to
talk to us in the evenings. We visited
people tonight with E. who is a recent convert and is getting ready to go to
the temple. We visited with his niece
who had been taught by other elders a long time ago. We felt that we should try to get to know her
and find out what problem she had with the church. The problem that she had was coffee. She said that she couldn’t stop drinking
coffee and that is why she wasn’t baptized.
Elder Benitez was inspired to invite her to fast this weekend to see if
she can get the strength necessary from the fast to break her addiction.
September 5, 2014
F. and S.
passed their interviews. It took a big chunk
out of our day but it was one of the best interviews that Elder G. has ever
had! F. had a really great interview and
when he was asked about the Word of Wisdom and why we should keep it, he said,
“Because it is God’s commandment.”
Throughout
the day we were able to teach plenty of people and a family of 6 said that they
got an answer from God that what we were saying is true. We were just about to stop teaching them
because they were not showing any progress and then they got their answer. I am hopeful for them that they will be able
to progress.
September 6, 2014
Wow,
everything fell through today. It would
have gone well except we did not have anyone available to teach with us and our
appointments were with women. You have to have 3 men in order to enter into a
single woman’s house.
The only thing that didn’t fall
through was the baptism, but it was kindof sad.
It was just the family, the bishop, the missionaries, and the ward
mission leader, and the young men’s president at the baptism . The young men’s president baptized F. and
Elder B. baptized S.
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