So
I flipped through my agenda, and sadly nothing exciting happened this week.
Unless you want to state the obvious and say "every day as a missionary is
exciting." True. In which case I had a very exciting week. But nothing out
of the ordinary. The work has been alright, we sadly lost the majority of our
amis. It got to the point where we had given them more than enough time to
react and nothing - so we move on. And moving on means contacting! Ohh how I love contacting.
Tuesday
started with what might be a personal record of 5 hours of contacting. The good
thing about dropping lame amis is all the amis that are left are serious and
golden. So we had two lessons that were awesome and then started walking around
for the rest of the day. Contacting the "American way" - door to
door. This pattern of work is what we did ALL week. Teach a few lessons, knock
doors. Hence the title of this email, I got really good at saying that phrase.
There
is one really cool thing about contacting. It's getting to be guided by the
spirit directly to people that are "prepared" as we like to say. For
example, we were contacting in a mainly Muslim neighborhood. Our sector is
really small and I've already hit up all the This week it's like we are serving
in Saudi Arabia" haha.
Walking
around after 3 minutes it was apparent that no one would be accepting our
brochures - so praying that God would give us someone to talk to - we continued
to walk aimlessly through the neighborhood until we passed a little shop and a Nigerian
man shouted after us. Turns out Stanley (the Nigerian) knows the church and his
brother served a mission in Ghana!
Another
person is Samuel. In this same Muslim neighborhood, there is a really nice
apartment building and it has Christmas decorations on the patios of some
apartments. I felt like it would be fun to go contact it, so we entered the
gate and talked with the guard (Samuel). Turns out no one was home, but he
accepted the brochure! Even better, he read it all after we left and we had a
good lesson with him yesterday. Stories like this go on and on. Proof that we
are inspired by the spirit when we do missionary work!
I'll
let you know what happens with all these new amis we’re finding. But for the
moment we'll just keep on trucking along. Like you noted, these last months are
going too fast. Hope you have a good week at work and school. I love ya guys!
