Hello friends and family!
Guess what! I hit my 7 month mark a few days ago! Holy cow! Time goes so freaking fast! Something good though, is that people have pretty much stopped calling me "Greenie". That's something I don't miss.
This has been an interesting week. In some ways, it hasn't been bad. But it was also a bit of a beat down. I guess I'll explain. I'll start with the hard stuff: most of our appointments canceled this past week. In terms of finding new people to teach, that was kind of a flop too. We got rejected a couple times, but that's about it in terms of nonmembers. Some good news however is that this week is looking to be really good. We have several new less actives we'll be meeting with and a couple new nonmembers we'll be seeing hopefully. So there is that. This past week did a good job of setting up this week for good things to happen. But it was still really hard while it lasted.
Here's the good perspective of the week. So, as I've mentioned, my companion, Elder Spencer, is really hard to live and work with (a fact he seems to be oblivious to). Lately he's kind of been driving the whole district crazy, especially me, since I have to live with him. I've learned that the Lord really helps us in situations that are hard. All we have to do is sincerely ask. I really needed patience and
humility. So I earnestly prayed for that and I received that. It's not easy still, but I feel like I can get through it now, and I'm a lot less stressed, and I feel like I'm actually learning and growing from the hard experience, rather than just begrudgingly scraping by. The Lord really helps us, and He can help us become better ourselves. Grace, the enabling power of Christ's Atonement, makes that possible. It's not just there for repentance and forgiveness of sins, it also literally enables us to overcome our weaknesses and become more Christlike, to move forwards and upwards. It's pretty awesome, and
I've learned a lot more about how that can help me in my life. So it's been a good week in that regard.
In other news, I met a crazy guy! Well, I guess he wasn't crazy, but something was definitely off with him. He was incredibly condescending, incredibly blunt, some of his ideas about religion and just life in general are a little wonko, and just his EXTREMELY odd way of thinking and talking to us totally threw us for a loop. I left that situation feeling really uncomfortable and just glad it was over. But now if someone asks me what the weirdest door contact I've ever had was, I'll actually have an answer.
Elder Samuelsen (my old friend from when I was serving in Mt. Pleasant) went home this past Saturday. Luckily, we had a zone conference on Wednesday, and the Cedar Zone and the Richfield
(formerly Delta-Manti) Zone met together. Elder Samuelsen was still serving in Moroni so he was part of that Zone Conference, and I got to see him before he went home. It's sad, but his two years are up, and he gets to move on to the next part of his life. Also, we still have things like email, so it's not like we can't communicate, and we're planning on meeting up anyway sometime after my two years are finished (he just lives in Indiana, that's not too far away from Michigan). In the meantime though, I'll miss him.
Well, there's not much else to report. I still can't believe I've been out for over 7 months!
Have a great week!
-Elder Oswald
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