“ Hey Family its Elder Meier, just hanging out Pday today… doing our
emailing, writing some people and I thought I might as well do my audio
recording for you. So it's week five of this transfer, so basically the
next time you hear from me I will know whether we stay or go. We will
learn are next area. So kind of scary. I think I might leave, Elder
H might stay that’s just kind of what happens in a trainer trainee
situation… but um ya, this week was really good –exciting….. so the
training goes for two transfers. And for that its week eleven. It is
when the trainee, Elder H, basically takes the lead for the
entire week and he makes planning situations, teaching situations all
that good stuff, he did a good job, he had a pretty successful week.
We had some miracles that came to pass that we were really hoping for a
praying for this week. We were able to see A***** who is Filipino and
single, I think I have told you about her. She is awesome she
has a real desire to make the right choice, she keeps on telling us “ I
don’t want to convert and fall away. Like I want to come and be baptized
and stay… like I want to be active and not just hang out”. She is
trying to search and find out if it’s true or not. Then we have S*** on
date for baptism but she isn’t progressing as fast as we thought,. So we are just praying
for the right inspiration.
But then a miracle happened, we were able
to meet with S***, she is awesome she is former Catholic and then
didn’t really believe that, and then she was a JW and then didn’t really
make sense to her anymore. She has been searching, she is basically
like some of our other really great investigators who are right on the
edge they just have some family problems and so we talked about the
144000 high priests, the after life per her questions and then some
lessons. She has a lot of health problems and she is worried about
dying, but we were able to talk to her about that and address all of her
concerns, it's just her husband is a against it, he is agnostic and he
doesn’t see the need for them needing religion. She is older but lively,
and so it makes our discussions with her a lot of fun.
We were
also able to see J**** he is a less active recent convert, and
we have been able to teach him the new member lessons. He was baptized a
year ago but didn’t have the new member lessons. So the new member
lessons are a review of all the discussions for understanding and
whatnot. He was kind of slipping and we were able to talk to him and get
him to come back.. We
think he might be getting into some anti-Mormon stuff..and that’s the
kind of the stuff we have to work on with him.
Another miracle was
E****, she is a friend of one of our members, she went the the Meet the
Mormons, two Saturdays ago with us and our ward. She loved it so much
she went back and brought most of her family. Her husband, her son, her
younger daughter. She said “ I totally feel inspired and I want to
change, and I feel like something is empty inside and I want to find out
what it is…., and feel like this is the church! WE are just like “ yea
we know and we can help you (excited voice) we.. are like “Christ can
help you, we know the church is true!” We are going to meet with her
this Wednesday with the J**** family, and we are super ,super ,super
excited ; and so miracles are all around us!!!
This ward is really
an amazing ward and has a lot of great missionary minded members. They
are full of charity, and who are full of love and patience,meekness,and
real “ long suffering” and they are just an awesome fun ward.
Speaking
of fun…a fun thing that happened this week while walking home form
church we saw a dead cat on the side of the road, I can’t send you the
picture because I forgot my camera again . It’s a good one, I 'll send
it this week. (tongue in cheek?sarcasm?)… But really, this morning we
were going to go shop, and we left our apartment through the lobby and
the manager said “you can’t go out that way, because there was a rabbid
dog in the lobby and its bleeding, and we called animal control”, and so
we look in and there's the dog just sitting there looking ferocious “ a
beast” (companion in the background) ya total beast mode. So ya…. only
here, there is a terrifying dog walks into our lobby to kill us all. Um
not really though, and they got it so we are good.
So a few of our
crew…..“ H***y”, the guy that tried to jump us, he looked good this week
when we saw him again ..he has like new clothes every day now. He had
his boat shoes on and he was all put to gether..but he is still crazy-
like, he is the local “crackhead local-guy” that we all know and love.
We also, went to lunch with M****he is the guy who plays the mini
harp around town. We talk to him about Tatum all the time, about how she
plays the harp and what kind of harp she plays and so its cool. Small
talk, but it was great.
I loved this week, but we are nervous about
transfers though so that is kind of looming, and oh yeah I got all the
stuff you sent, so we are all set!! Thanks for everything !! Such a
great week, we passed our apartment inspections…. Um what else??? I
just love it here.,.. oh!! There is a stinkin' car here that looks like
Tosh’s car!! It's so freaky…same paint color, same rust spots, same car…
everything, its cool ya. But I always get caught off guard when I see
it!! I hope all is going great, I hope Quinn is doing great and that the
Rugby team is doing well. So ya Love you all so very much, I will see
you on Mother’s day…and I will let you know transfers next time! Love
you all!! Bye! ~ Elder Meier signing off!! “
