Hey Ma, Hey Pa!
Here's my week:
Elder Higby and I had a really good meeting this week with
the branch council members, and we were able to get a lot of support in the
work that we are doing right now. It sounds like ‘A’ will be getting
extended a call here pretty soon (he already had an interview with Pres.
Cullingford), which was something specific we brought up, as well as getting
more members out to appointments, to which all of the male members said to be
sure to just give them a call in advance and they'd love to come (not that it
has really ever been a problem before, I love the members here). I've
noticed the branch really reaching out to the missionaries over the last couple
of weeks, and I'm excited to see how the work is going to progress as we take
advantage of it.
We also had a really good splits this week with the Zone
leaders Elder Zalewski and Elder Zenger. They are both such incredible
missonaries. We were actually able to get around to five solid
appointments that day, plus find a new investigator and a few potentials.
I took a lot away from that day, Elder Zenger is an
excellent missionary with some great ideas about how to improve missionary
work. This week we were supposed to have our good friend ‘M’ with us in
church. The Friday and Saturday night follow ups were very promising, and
she said she was really looking forward to bringing ‘Ma’ with to meet some of
the kids (we definitely talked up our primary), and in the end she flaked
out. We were really disappointed, BUT ‘A’ came after a Saturday night
follow up, and that lead to him having the interview with Quentin, so THAT was
a success story from church.
People just need to start coming to this branch to see how
wonderful they are!!
Sometimes it can be a little frustrating, but we are still
working hard, and have an extra strong focus on finding new friends this week,
so we'll be sure to follow up on that.
Some other fun things.... Elder Higby and I went to a
'Fri Kirke' international party with one of our investigators who was singing
there. Elder Higby and I weren't just going to sit around though.
We got up and participated in a Serbian line dance, and then even asked if we
could sing a song from our church. (Elder Higby plays piano, I sang) It
wasn't a small crowd either. Probably a little over a hundred people if I had
to guess. We did our own little rendition of 'A Child's Prayer', and I
got video of it. It was a blast :)
We've had people we've talked with on the street over the
last few days ask us if we were the ones at the party, and even knocked on the
door of one of the priests for the 'Free Church'. We're famous ;)
It was a really good week though, just in case you couldn't
already tell.
I'm glad to hear that everything is going so smoothly back
home. It's been great watching everyone grow up, and I feel like I'm very
much a part of it, even if I'm not always just in the other room.
Tia had also mentioned that she felt like she could feel my presence
at home, so who knows, maybe I was just having a nifty out of body, dream
experience ;)
I love you both! Have a great week!
Ældste Pitcher
