Ah man this year mark is getting closer it is crazy! I figured that memorial day was my last double holiday! I now only have one of all of them left!
I will just get started in what happened this past week!
Last Tuesday all of our appointments fell through in the afternoon... so instead of tracting we tried some formal investigators. It started off kinda slow but it didn't take time to get heated up! We knocked into 3 houses and we got 4 potentials from it! it was crazy it was just one right after another! The last one this kid came up to us and asked if we were going to go over to his house. This kinda took us by surprise but he said that missionaries used to go to his house and he wants them to come back. Well we are fine with that!
We have not been able to catch them at home yet but it is probably because they are Hispanic and are always working! I just emailed President asking if we could start teaching the Hispanics here in Purcell because all of the referrals that we give to the hermanas in Norman they never visit because of the distance! While yes it isn't ideal to have one missionary teaching I believe it is better to teach the people that are interested! So I hope President likes the idea too!
But 10 seconds after talking to the kid... another person walks up to us and he said that he is a preacher and would like to go out to dinner with us... Well the first reaction was to start preparation for war-aka bible bash haha but we decided to go in with love. Well he turned out being a really cool guy and most of his extended family are Mormons and he had 3 nephews on missions. So we had a nice discussion about the church and the purpose of missionaries! He was a preacher at one of those TV life churches idk so we could of slammed him with some good questions but we decided to restrain! It is amazing what some people believe these days... A NON NONDENOMINATIONAL CHURCH??!!! It is very entertaining to hear people try to explain what that means haha
We were able to have a meeting with our Bishop last week re- establishing the plan for missionary work in the ward---A WARD MISSION PLAN. It went very well and it was brought up in ward council this past week! Now we have to work with our ward mission leader and get him ready to do some missionary work here in the ward... he is a little old and lives 30 minutes away! but that is ok We gave him a good confidence boost and he is ready to go!
We had dinner at a members house this week in Lexington-50 minutes away. The Fishburns were invited so we hitched a ride with them. On the way back they drove right past our apartment and said that we were going to go to Brahms and get some ice cream! haha we had just eaten carrot cake and ice cream at dinner but i guess they wanted more! well after that they needed to go to Walmart and we forced Brother Fishburn to give out a pass-along card to the cashier.. he then said that he could pass out a 500 pack of cards in a week... Bro Fishburn is the best!
On Saturday we were able to go through the temple because we had a recent convert receive his endowments! It was very cool--even though it was the old old video because we had someone speaking a different language! I was able to stop by hermano Garcia's house on the way back and he was very happy to see me! My picture is still on his phone for the missionaries there!!! both the missionaries there right now are Hispanics… I think that they like having gueros as missionaries! I was mad I had to tell them to slow down in their talking... but by the end of the conversation I was understanding them!
But that is about what happened last week it was a very good week. HOPE YALL HAVE A GOOD WEEK THIS WEEK>
ELDER FINLINSON
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