Things this week started off rather odd. It seemed like we
were working hard but not talking to enough people and hardly teaching any
lessons. We failed to get a hold of William, left a voice mail and he hasn't
replied yet. We were able to meet again with Jesse last Monday but she didn't
end up going to conference.
With our weekly results pretty bad, thankfully, the end of the week got
better as we saw some conference miracles over the weekend. On Thursday morning
we met with an Indian man named Jignesh. Elder Nielsen taught him with his last
companion and he was looking really solid until a heavy schedule and a sickness
overtook him. We told him about general conference and he came to all
4 sessions! He loved it! So much of it rang true to him. We'll be meeting him next
weekend as he is still a busy man during the week days. He apparently
showed clips of the conference to his family and explained a lot about the
apostles and prophets.
Leah also came to the conference with her friend Ember and
she enjoyed it as well. You can put your money on the prophet to allow
your investigators to have a spiritual experience. With that in mind, let
me share a couple lines from President Dieter F Uchtdorf: "Don't
we often feel that discipleship is more complicated then it needs to
be?" he said in the opening session on Saturday. I sure feel
that way. The other little line I loved from him was in the priesthood
session which said: "It's easy to be skeptical, anyone can do
it." I'm probably one of the more skeptical people I
know! For the record, President Uchtodorf is my favorite current general
authority. I love all of them, but what he says always seems to speak to me so
well.
After the priesthood session, our ward mission leader
Brother Soll invited us over for a quick bite to eat. His daughter's
boyfriend who is not a member came to the priesthood session and came to the
house with us. His name is Harry and he seems to really like the church.
He's down to start taking the lessons and the Soll family is very
pleased!
We also managed to find Peter after a lot of knocking late
in the week! He was amazed we were able to find him. He gave us his phone
number and said we could call early this week. He's the father of a young
family.
So ends another week in the mission. It seems like we've
been rewarded. I'm so thankful that we could see some fruit from our works and
faith. As Sister Merriot said in the conference, "It all works
out!" Now its time to move forward and help the ward see some
baptisms. Just so you're aware, its thanksgiving weekend and the library will be
closed so don't expect any emails from me until next Tuesday. Enjoy the Thanksgiving
weekend. I may not be home for this one but I will be for the next!
Elder Maclean Samis
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