Well, as the week before reached high temperatures, this week decided to go the other way, with cool tempertures and a ton of wind.
Now, in this week the there is a lot of sad news, but of course, because of oposition in all things, there will be a little good news.
The bad news... well maybe not bad, but not entirely great. This week we had a lot of trial and error and very few results. We don't have a lot of investigators as of now, and with that, we are in the streets very often, and while we are talking with many people a day, very few people are really deciding to follow the example of Christ. One of these was a woman named Elva. She is an old investigator that we found one day while contacting. Turns out she has been investigating the church for a very long time. Now, one of our Zone Leaders straight away told us that it would not work out, but to see if we can help her progress. She apparently is very Bi-polar with the Gospel, some things she likes, and if you mention one bad thing, she will not talk to you again. With this in mind, we did our best to help her. Unfortunately, this last Saturday she told us and asked us to tell the Missionaries in general to not come by her house ever again, that we were wasting our time. It was something we were well aware of happening but, for me at least, it was still a pretty hard hit.
In this part of my mission, where it is difficult and every blessing I'm seeing is bigger than everything, I'm finally starting to understand how Nephi felt when he said that he wet his pillow with his tears every night. But as well he said that he still had his faith in Christ.
The good news is one of those small and great blessings. A young woman named Candelarea. Her mom is a recently self-re-activating member and they both have great testimonies and faith. When we originally got here, we didn't think that she'd make it to be baptized, but as to now, has probed us wrong, and will be baptized next week. She's been reading the Stories of the Book of Mormon book the entire time, praying every night, and is making great sacrifices to make it to the church.
I truly feel blessed that, while everything isn't just working our perfectly, at least one more person will receive the giant blessings that are waiting for them.
I love you all, and Maggie, I can't wait to walk the dogs with you either.
-Ian
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