Well...Things have
been good...and bad. But a good bad I
guess you could say. It has been good because we have had a lot of training
this week and that has been helpful in what we do on a day to day basis. So we have lots and lots to work on and start
to implement in our daily routine. And remember when I said tracting was better
last week...that lasted about 4 days later. We ran into this guy, who just laid into us
about how we are spreading a lie and just a lot of other things and was just
attacking us. We should of just walking away but we didn't and we kind of told
him the what for about what he has said. We kind of got into it with him but
then realized it was going in a not very good direction and we tried to change
the tone and ask him have you ever read the Book of Mormon and he just keep
saying you don't need it and you believe this and this and it’s a lie. We told
him how can you tell us what we believe
if you have never even read the Book of Mormon and why would you limit God to
what he is capable of. He listened for about 5 minutes and then just went back to his
old argument that we were spreading a lie and weren't going to make it to
heaven because we were serving a mission. I finally said its time to go, and we
started to walk away and we told him we hoped that one day his opinion of who
we were as people would change and wished him a nice day. Let me tell you, I
have a lot of work to do on loving everyone because I really just wanted to
punch him in the face and say how dare you. I am praying for Charity and
forgiveness which is all I can do but we are both not fans of tracting right
now. We didn't even knock on his door. We were just walking down the sidewalk
and said Hi but it just surprises me how mean people can be about something
they know so little about. Everything else has been good but that experience
kind of shook both of us up for a little while. We know better next time to
that when that happens to walk away. We have the right to not listen to them
especially if they are targeting us. But that is my horrid story for the week.
My good story of the week is that is finally cooled down for a few days but
today and tomorrow...107! People say this isn't normally for this area and they
don't really know what is going on. We have met some neat people this last week
but none of whom were interested. Our ward is
really helpful and are always so willing to feed us. Which is nice not having
to worry about cooking a meal but I don't know if they realize that as sisters,
we don't eat near as much as the elders! It’s kind of funny to see how much food gets
put on the table sometimes. We just laugh. We have 2 new investigators this
week. We are teaching a 14 year old girl who has had a pretty hard life so far
but her aunt is in our ward and they are adopting her and she wants to learn
more about the church. The other is a grandson of a less active in our ward and
they both are going to be taught the missionary lessons. He is 81/2 and super
excited to learn more. There is so much work that can be done here but
sometimes it gets overwhelming on where to even start. We are never really sure
but that is where prayer comes into play and we just trust that the Lord will
take us where we need to be. But you just keep working hard, hoping for the
best and you just keep doing what has been asked of you and pray for the
strength to keep going.
The fall pictures
you sent looked beautiful and I miss seeing all that green! It’s mostly desert here with maybe a couple of
green trees but not very many. Tell everyone Hi for me! Love you, Sister Haws
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