This has been a great week.
Tuesday, we had a lesson with a
guy that we had tracted into Sunday, and we had a good lesson with
him and he understood everything fairly well, that is except for the
Book of Mormon. For some reason, no matter how many times or how we
present it, he just doesn't understand it. And because he's an older
fellow, he loves to talk, so after the closing prayer it took us
another ten minutes to leave. He's a good guy.
Later, we went by a lady that
Elder Peterson taught on the exchange, but she wasn't feeling good so
we set up a return appointment. We then did our service at the
Salvation Army.
Lastly, we went to a part member
family's home that we were going to have dinner with, and when we got
there, the wife answered the door and we could immediately tell
something was wrong. They let us in, and we found out that they had a
family member passed away so they were understandably upset. We
talked with them for a little bit, doing what we could, then left.
They had forgotten that we were coming for dinner and thought we had
just stopped by, and we found it expedient not to mention anything.
Wednesday, we first stopped by a
potential investigator who we had talked to on the phone a few days
before, but no one answered. So we just drove to Madisonville for
District Meeting, it was really good, and long. Jerry was there,
along with the Zone Leaders. Afterwards us and the Madisonville
elders had lunch. Then on the way back, we made some stops to some
people at the edge of our area.
Thursday, we had an appointment
with a potential who had gotten a hold of us. We're super excited and
we get there and NO ONE ANSWERED! Why?! We even knew someone was
there but didn't answer. So we left and went to the park and fed the
animals. Then we went to Evansville to send my bike and I got
everything taken apart quickly except for the pedals, and after
awhile, and because we had a member waiting, I admitted defeat and
took my bike to the nearby bike shop and asked them to do it. They
hooked it to a frame and grabbed a tool and had them off within two
minutes. So we got the bike boxed and shipped. We then saw one of our
investigators, gave her a magnifying glass that was randomly at our
apartment so she can read the Book of Mormon now and invited her to
watch General Conference. We then had dinner with some members and
had coordination.
Friday, we had weekly planning,
then most of the rest of the day wasn't so good, no one would answer
there phones or doors. But then we had dinner with members and that
was pretty good.
Saturday, General Conference was
amazing! I learned so much! Some of my favorite were Elder Bragg, and
Elder Nelson on Saturday morning, then Elder Bednar during Priesthood
Session, also, remember rule #6.
Sunday, was good as well, loved
Conference, and we got an investigator to watch the last session at a
members home, and it was really good, but he still had trouble
understanding things.
Well, that's my final week in the
mission. It's so weird that this is it, but I'm excited to see my
family!
Love y'all!
Elder Durrant
Great Kentucky Louisville Mission
