I feel obligated to start my email off apologizing for not sending
pictures. I keep saying I will do better, and I don't do it! I just don't think
about it during the week honestly. I even started carrying my camera around
with me, and I still would forget that I had it.
So this past week has been good. They seem to keep flying on by.
Sister Erikson called me this week to ask me some info. to verify about going
home, so that didn't make me happy. It's sad how fast it's coming to an end.
No new people were found this week, but we did hear about a couple
new names of people we hadn't heard of before which doesn’t happen often, so
that was good. Maybe we will be able to find some members to help us work with
them soon.
Cecilia has been doing better. She gets closer to her answer every
day. Taegan still wants to get baptized, and he will be with his mom this
weekend, so he can go to church this Sunday. His mom, Kellen, has still not
talked to Taegan's dad to see if he is ok with him getting baptized, so we are
praying he says yes.
Eric is a teenager that was investigating with Elder Harper and his
previous companion, but we dropped him as soon as I got into the area, because
he had hit a wall where his dad wouldn't let him get baptized. But we got in
contact with him last week to see how he is doing, and he is reading and
praying everyday and going to church every week. This past Sunday we fasted
with him, so he could ask his dad again. He doesn't live with his dad, but he
still needs/wants his permission to do it. His dad just keeps saying he wants
him to investigate the Catholic Church and find out if he wants to do that
instead. Maybe we will bring Elder Ward over to give him a quick history lesson
of the Catholic Church to make sure that doesn’t happen. (Elder Ward majored in
ancient roman history and knows everything about all that stuff).
Elder Ward has been doing great as an assistant. He is a natural
leader, and I think enjoys the extra challenge it is bringing him to deal with
a lot of different things. We had mission leadership conference yesterday,
which tends to be very frustrating. Elder Arnold (seventy) came and talked for
a while and asked us to change some things in our mission. After he left we
discussed some things, which just resulted in us leaving not really having come
to any conclusion. It was weird to sit there and look around and see I am one
of the oldest zone leaders there. Elder Ward and I, one year ago, were sitting
together as the youngest zone leaders in the mission and were so intimidated by
all the old scary missionaries and felt out of place. Time really does fly by.
We played zone soccer this morning and then went to Costco with
Elder Harper and his companion and Elder Kelley and his comp. All my old
companions are doing well and enjoying their missions.
I can't think of anything else. I know my emails are getting weaker.
I need to think of more things to talk about.
Teresa is great; she is getting her last recent convert lesson this
week. She has been recovering poorly but came to church to just take the
sacrament anyway and went home.
The Billman’s came to church!! That was exciting, They even stayed
for all three hours. The kids will be there this weekend, but they don't want
to sit in on the lessons. We need prayers to soften the Billman teenagers'
hearts.
The gym closed three days a week so we do zone insanity. (The
sisters' idea.) The start off zone study went well and things have improved.
Last week we had three dates and this week we have fourteen as a zone, so it’s
improving quickly. We just need to keep the momentum. We have two great
district leaders that are brand new.
Elder Coronado and I had to do the transfer point so we sat at the
church building and called people that left stuff behind, and they gave us
subway gift cards for it so we were happy.
We went out to eat for dinner last night (members took us), and I
had biscuits and gravy (this restaurant is famous for them), and it was so
disappointing. I'm excited to see Grandma Bassett and eat good biscuits and
gravy. (I love Grandma despite her cooking skills, but the biscuits and gravy
are just a bonus.)
We spoke in a couple more sacrament meetings. They used some of our
stories in young women's lessons, so I guess that means they were listening
which doesn't happen too often in sacrament. The more I speak in sacrament
every week, the more I realize what gets people to listen. When I am writing it,
all I want to do is read scriptures to them, but people check out so quickly. I
almost always try to have a few stories to keep people listening, more types of
ways that the scriptures applied in people's lives. Maybe I could use that in
my teaching by telling more stories. Pres. Hiers tells lots of stories, and I
love hearing them.
Love you all!
Elder Bassett
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