So this was easily the busiest week of my entire mission, and it only gets busier and crazier from here...
Saturday and Sunday were pretty normal for us. We got to spend plenty of time in the area and get everyone ready for church. As far as new investigators, none really turned out to be too positive...YET (we will work on that when we have time). But as far as Bertha and her family go, it was a great weekend!! We taught her again about Joseph Smith and the restoration to help her and her family understand it more in concrete, and it was a pretty good lesson. But the cool part with her was that on Sunday morning we passed by the house to make sure she was awake and getting ready for church. After she answered the door, we told her we would meet her at the church, because we felt like she needed to go on her own without us dragging her there. When we got to church, she wasn't there, and for all of sacrament meeting I was very disappointed. But then we went into Sunday school and there she was, sitting there with her daughters!! She apologized and asked me to forgive her, because they had fallen back asleep! But when they woke up, she realized and got her daughters and came with them on their own to catch the last 2 hours! Now we just have to help her not feel ashamed for accepting the truth and being baptized. She is really worried about how her mom and sister will react if she does it, so she keeps putting excuses in the way when we talk about baptism.
As far as Ronald goes, we were expecting to have him at church as well, but when his wife and daughter arrived on Sunday (already members), he was not with them. Later we found out the they did not want to leave the house alone without anyone there to "guard" it. So we pulled out the scripture 1 Nephi 17:51, "And now, if the Lord has such great power, and has wrought so many miracles among the children of men, how is it that he cannot instruct me, that I should build a ship?," and changed the application by saying "do you not think that God has the power to protect your house?". We didn't quiiiiite get the results we were hoping for, but we did accept an opportunity to serve. Tomorrow we are going to help them make one of their doors a little more safe so that they can leave the house alone and come to church as a family. But on the bright side, they are totally praying as a couple, and reading the Book of Mormon as a couple! It is the ideal situation to help him progress! So that was the weekend.
So this week we had a meeting on Tuesday, and like all meetings, I had to get all the food ready for it, so the majority of Monday was preparing for that meeting, and getting a couple of office related things done also.
I guess there is some rule that the secretaries can only stay in a house for 1 year and then they have to move houses to avoid major damages to a house. So the time to be out of the house we were in was in three days. So we got to do that this week also. We found a house last week, got the paperwork signed on Monday, and I decided that on Wednesday we would move. So after the meeting Tuesday, we headed to the house to get everything ready and organized to move out. We hired someone to help us on Wednesday, and even though it took us all day, we got it done. Oh, and I hardly slept Tuesday and Wednesday night, I was up until like 1 or 1:30 getting everything ready, and arranging everything in the new house...so I'm super tired! :) If the stuff I am saying doesn't make sense, that's why. So anyway, then we spent Thursday catching up on things in the office, because we really haven't been in the office much for the last two weeks.
To say things shortly, Monday was spent preparing for the meeting Tuesday. Tuesday after the meeting was spent getting ready to move Wednesday. Wednesday was spent moving houses. And Thursday was all day in the office. If you carefully analyze this small schedule of my week, you will notice that we haven't even been to the area this week... which really stinks.
I would like to say it will get easier after this week, but it won't. We have changes this upcoming week, and it is going to be pretty crazy, because it is my first time doing it without Elder Clark leading me around. So this will be a great adventure :D
Anyway in the moment I am stinking tired, so I can't really think very well................
Bye Bye haha
Love,
Elder Moser
Pics this week...
Everything all packed up in the house!
Sorry for the lack of exciting pictures, but this really dominated the week....
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