So this week was um, a little rough!!!! Ha ha so ya remember that investigator I told y’all about last week- Joy and her family. Well on Friday we had an appointment with Joy and when we got there her husband was there as well. We were so excited cause we could teach the whole family and Joy had just seemed so elect the last time we taught her. Well we go in and get to know the husband better and everything and talk and stuff and he says that he has actually talked to some missionaries here and then he lists their names. A set if sisters and a set of Elders all of whom I knew of and then eh also lists some friends/acquaintances they had who were Mormon and I knew all of them as well. So in my mind this just keeps looking better and better. They are so ready for the gospel, right? WRONG!!!!!!!!! After we say the opening prayer and I go to start the lesson, he says he has some questions first. Well he pulls out these packets he had put together with quotes from our prophets as well as scriptures from the B of M and the King James Version of the Bible. So he hands us these and we were like huh? Then he asks us about some theory and if we’d ever heard it before. Well we both hadn’t and he was pretty emotional about that and then went on to tell us that we were being deceived and he was truly concerned for our souls and according to our own prophets we were going to be damned. I will not go into detail nor will I tell you of the doctrine he was referring to because it is not necessary and I don’t want anyone else to even think on it. I will say that the hour we spent in their home was one of the worst of my life. I tired many times to get out of there politely while my comp just sat there saying nothing. I bore testimony and tried to leave but he just kept on talking to us! It was horrible! He was so Anti Mormon it truly scared me. When we finally got out of there Sister Dodge had taken the packet he gave us. I left mine at his house and told him no thank you- I know what I believe and I know the church is true! Well we got in the car and I looked at my comp and asked her why on earth she took the packet. She said she was curious about the theory/doctrine he brought up. In her defense this guy was convincing and had real quotes from Spencer W Kimball and Bruce R. McConkie. But I just looked at her and said is your testimony ok? She says she wasn’t quite sure. I also was not doing so well. My testimony was fine- you couldn’t bust that thing with a freak’n bulldozer, no way not after all the things I’ve been through in my life. What really bothered me was the awful feeling that was present when that guy was anti-ing us. The spirit left completely and I felt miserable!!!! I was upset that the whole thing had to happen. SO sister Dodge and I didn’t know what to do. SO when in doubt, call president. We called President, he first resolved Sister Dodge’s concerns about the doctrine and then talked to me. He asked me how my testimony was and if I was shaken. I told him that I had two problems with the whole thing, first that we fell into that trap. Why did we think they were so elect and then boom we were tricked into this AWFUL experience and the second thing was the miserable feeling I felt when the spirit left and that really bothered me. So to the first issue President said- what happened when Joseph Smith went into the grove to pray? I was like, oh geez president okay I get it opposition in all things. He said –Exactly! To the second problem he said well now I know what it feels like when the spirit leaves and I will be sure to get out of those situations quicker next time now won’t I? Ha ha so ya President always seems to know what to say. It helped us a lot and we were able to get over our horrible experience with the Anti.
So other things, well we had stake conference this week which was amazing- it was a broadcast one and President Uchtdorf spoke and it was amazing!! We didn’t have any investigators at church. We did find 3 new investigators this week, so that was cool. We have been doing a lot of finding. President is trying to pound it into my head that finding needs to be like breathing, something I do naturally. We have been really working on our EBP lately. I am gonna go ahead and explain what EBP is so y’all will know what I am talking about cause I will refer to it a lot! So EBP stands for Elder Ballard’s Proimse. Elder Ballard came to our mission about a year ago and spoke and he gave our mission this promise. If we Have companionship Study every day, ask everyone we contact for referrals and if we contact 10 extra people everyday outside of knocking on people’s doors- we will find more people to teach and baptize. SO ya a pretty cool promise. What we have been focusing on is finding the ten extra people- that’s the part we always refer to as EBP my comp and I have no problem doing the other 2 parts. But sometimes finding 10 people on the street to go up and talk to and get them to listen to us- that can be hard. We can’t just hand them a pass along card either- we have to teach them at least 2 principles of the gospel, testify and then commit them to something. It is hard to get EBP!! But we have been working on it! Yesterday we got it! Yay!! But ya I have realized that once I get in the swing of things I am on a roll and I will go up to every person I see and talk to them about the gospel. So the rest of this transfer the main focus for me and my comp is going to be doing our hour of knocking every day and also EBPing! I will make finding become a part of me if it’s the last thing I do! Ha ha
So in other news, the envelope contest is over!!! It was so hard to choose!! Geez! But I finally decided that for first place there is a three way tie between Cristina, Moran and Kevin! The Second place winner is Adam. Once again it was tough to choose! So C, Moran and Kev you will be getting packages from me, but prolly not until next transfer cause things are SO insanely busy right now. Adam you will be getting a Texas souvenir, and you are right you prolly are the person who will enjoy it the most! Long Live Tejas! The picture of the winning envelopes will be attached this week.
Ok well I had better go! For P-day today our whole zone is coming down here to San Marcos and we are going shopping at the outlet malls and then we are going to play capture the flag at this really cool park by the San Marcos river! Hope no one falls in! lol J/K Have a great week y’all and I will talk to ya soon!
SMILING ALL THE WHILE,
Hermana Kleisler
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