It has been a good week I feel. Me and Elder Gifford have been
working very hard to try to find new investigators. We recently found out that
Michael Williams has somehow disappeared. We showed up to an appointment and
call him at Sandholm, but we received no answer from him. We have tried calling
and texting him several times this week, but it feels like he fell of the face
of the Earth. We are going to try to get a hold of him, but for now we realized
that we now have no one to work with. I guess this is partially my fault. We
didn't focus to much on finding people this past month. Now our teaching pool is
getting low to empty. Me and Elder King didn't focus on it to much last month
because it was Christmas time.
Elder Gifford I guess was kind of warning me about this haha.
But we focused a lot this past week on finding. And it has
been positive. We have found many people already that asked us to come back. We
have continued doing our cookie referrals with the members. And we have seen
many people meet us and were happy that we came by. We are going to continue
with that I believe. We have built up our potential pool. And I feel these 2
hours a day of finding will help out as well.
We have had the miracle of finding another family! We went out
knocking in Lynge this past week. We figured it has been a while since Lynge has
been worked on. We picked an area/ street. On the 2nd or 3rd house we knocked
on, we found this family. The mother was the only one home. She said that she
was American, so it made it easy to talk with her. We found out that she has
family that lives in Arizona that is staying with a member family. She knows a
little bit about the Mormons.
To make this a long time of a waited on miracle, ironically she
met Elder King and Earl, and Finn Lygaard I believe. At the school where she
teaches. Apparently Elder King and Earl gave some sort of presentation about the
Church, and amazingly we knocked on her door! She said it was okay to come back
when her husband was home. We than went on and continued to knock until the end
of the long street and found another potential Family!
But on New Years we were able to meet with the American
family, we talked about religion, what their beliefs were, missionaries and
their lives, and about the church in general. The wife is a Methodist. We were
wondering when we could do a wrap around point and teach them about our message.
Finally the husband said ''Okay so what do you share with people?'' Well, we'll
tell you! We began teaching some of the points of the gospel, but the Spirit led
us to temples and how families can be together forever! As soon as we talked
about that, the husbands facial expressions changed. They asked us good
questions. At the end, when we had to catch a bus, we asked if it was okay to
come back again and teach them more. The wife seemed hesitant, not sure of what
her husband would say. He replied ''Yeah I am curious and want to learn more.''
It was amazing that over a couple of months the missionaries/members have had
contact, and remarkably me and Elder Gifford were led to the right street in
Lynge.
Quick tip for all friends and missionaries. Spend time
everyday finding, than you won't be doing it all day because your teaching pool
is dead haha. It has been a marvelous week. We are going to keep trying to stay
in finding mode. We both feel like it super needed for this area. I have now
learned that it is easier to go out contacting/finding on a daily basis, than to
wait until you need work and have room in our schedule just for finding only.
Lesson learned, but now is the time to find those for our area!
Well love you all and got to get going. Have a good week! love You
all!
-Elder Jantzen Richard Read
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