Well this week has been good! We only have about 40 minutes to email today.... We have a member taking us out to lunch, so we have very limited time today. This week has been great! We have been trying to get our area moving again... It seems that the few weeks following a baptism the other areas of missionary work go down... such as we no longer have an investigator at church, but a new member, and we no longer are teaching investigators, but Recent converts. So our numbers go down a little bit, but it's good because we are still helping out the ward and those around us. We haven't had anything really exciting happen, no car wrecks... a few close calls while on our bikes :) people don't usually watch for us, but we are quick.
It's amazing here... There are so many people that have a belief in Jesus Christ, but won't listen... I wonder if some of Christ's miracles such as healing the blind or the deaf, meant that he opened they eyes and ears of those around Him...? Just a thought. We don't often find people who don't have a faith, but this week we did. We met a nice young lady, 28ish, and she has 4 kids, and no husband. Her fiance died tragically before they got married, and now she is just mad at God. She has never set foot in a church, and gets most of her understanding of God, and Prayer and Religion from TV.... Great source right? We knew we'd need to go slow and really teach her the basics. She wanted to go into our church and confess all of her sins, and get things off her chest to someone who wouldn't judge her, but we don't really do that with our bishops... I wouldn't want to do that to a bishop. But we did teach her about prayer, and the healing power of being able to talk with God openly, and seek his help, what an amazing blessing I've taken for granted so many times in my life. We followed up with her a few days later and she said she'd tried praying and that she felt so much better afterwards. It's a small testimony, but a foundation nonetheless. She'll be a slow convert if she fully accepts this, but she is willing to try things, and more importantly we are simply allowing the Spirit to testify to her that this is true. I'm realizing more and more that we are only here to create the opportunity for the spirit to testify, it's not us that does the teaching.
We have Presidents interviews this week, and the week after we have Zone Conference. We get to hear from Elder Robbins of the Seventy. It will be great to have a General Authority from the Church here to teach us.
Well got to run this is a busy day!
Well it's about time to leave! Till next week and with love
Elder Rees
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