Wow!! We have had such an awesome
week!
We've had to drop several people who either weren't
interested, weren't progressing, or hid inside of their houses as
soon as they saw us (that was pretty funny) but we are finding a lot of
new potential investigators so the work is really going well.
Last Tuesday we headed out to try to
visit a few people and then to do a lot of finding. Our first
appointment fell through, so we went to try to contact the second
person. On our way there, we passed by the house of someone we
met over a month ago and briefly spoke to. We've been trying to
contact him for the last month but haven't been able to make contact
with him until last Tuesday. We ended up teaching him, James,
as well as his friend, Romel, a whole lesson. It was awesome!
Both seem really interested and James especially kept bringing
stuff up that he already believes in that is part of the gospel. We
haven't been able to teach them since then yet, but hopefully we'll
be able to teach them again this week. :)
After teaching them, we went to find
some more people. We were just walking and talking about
something really random, when the lady who had been walking in front
of us for awhile suddenly turned around and gave us the biggest
smile. "Are you Mormons?" she asked. We both
smiled and replied that we were. She was all, "That's
nice," and then turned around to walk away. Obviously, we
couldn't let her go so we started talking to her some more and
discovered that she was taught by Elders over 30 years ago. She
invited us over to her house which is insanely nice by the way... it
has air-con!! We talked to her, Sister Puri, for quite awhile
as well as her daughter Wendy, who is married and has two adorable
little boys. Wendy is a golden investigator! She had so
many really good, deep questions for us and is super interested in
our church. We can't wait to teach her again! We had
another really good lesson with Sister Puri last Friday and will be
teaching her again this week as well. :) That whole day
was just a testament to the two of us that if we go out and place our
faith in God, He will help us find those people He has prepared for
us to teach.
So... funny story... on Friday Sister
Jones and I were taking a short break (we're getting so tan from all
of the sunlight we've been getting because we walk everywhere now)
and eating some bananas in a small store on the side of the rode. So
we're talking to the owner and her co-worker and doing some "how
to begin teaching" with them when all of the sudden I look over
on the other side of the road and there is this obviously gay guy
looking over at the two of us. He gets the biggest grin on his
face, holds up something in his hand, pops his foot and yells,
"Promo!" We both start giggling and then he comes
over to us and begins to try to sell us laundry detergent. :)
About five others join him, all "baklas," and they're
trying so hard to speak in English, and doing really well I might
add, and it was just super funny and you would've had to be there to
understand. They're in the middle of their spiel when they
stop, and one of them looks at Sis. Jones and says, "You know...
you look just like Miss Adele!" We both start laughing and
all of the other guys there are nodding there heads and then all of
the sudden, this guy starts singing "Someone Like You" at
the top of his lungs. We were both dying of laughter and then
awhile later they inform me that I look like Avril Lavigne... You can
imagine my face at this point. The whole experience was
ridiculously funny and yeah... we totally bought the laundry
detergent. It was worth it for the entertainment. :)
Hope everyone is having a wonderful
week! Until next P-day!
Love, Sister Dickison
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